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represented in the Kootenay Valley flora, see the genera 
ia Pie 
in 
Kootenay but not in the Don. e conclusion, — fore, appears 
to be justified, either that the Kootenay Valley flora represents 
an interglacial period distinct from and of a warmer climate than 
either the Don, the Scarboro, or the Green’s Creek, or that these 
the climatic conditions in British Columbia are milder seen 
those of Ontario, and Te am oe ph those 
with the facts, that a and comparison of their 
respective living floras shows similar regional differences. 
e may have, therefore, in this recently discovered Pleistocene 
ences between the west and east on our continent have prevailed 
more or less continuously ever since Cretaceous time. 
Artuur Hotvicx 
DWARF EVERGREENS 
With Plates CLIV and CLV 
Th [SC aearonery 
j g increasing interest, as people 
me to remain more and more in the country the year around. 
especially in winter, when the effect of their coloring of permanent 
green is enhanced at times by the snow and ice which covers 
them as a mantle. They form an excellent background for 
bright colored fruits in a winter and for the flowers of shrubs 
