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1904] BRIEFER ARTICLES 379 
NOTE ON SOME BRITISH COLUMBIAN DWARF TREES. 
(WITH THREE FIGURES) 
Wate at the Minnesota Seaside Station on the west coast of Vancouver 
Island during the past summer, an interesting forest of dwarf trees was 
discovered. For the most part they grew on the weather-worn edges of a 
strongly inclined slate formation, but a few were found in crevices between 
blocks of diabase. They were all close to the sea, but outside the influence 
of the surf. Mr. F. K. Burrers and I succeeded in getting a number of 
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after securing which we cut down the trees and determined 
The se mag of hand lenses and the compound microscope- 
Tees were of three species: Picea sitchensis, Tsuga hetero 
Maes. gigantea. The pictures herewith presented, en Si 
also the zs Ee prace.. F 1g. : shows the largest gee Pe eee 
ad : It was a little less than two feet high and sixt) 
,., 28. The leaf-bearing phytomeres were decidedly short, 
‘Temain upon the twigs for several years, so that he effect in 
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