Resurrection Plant. Ill 



overlaid by the hind foot. From Coal Measures, Joggins, 

 RS. See p. 104. 



Fig. 6. Ornithoides — Type Hylopus (?) trifidus. Daw- 

 son — a. Left hindfoot — b. Left forefoot. Both mag. f. 

 The two feet are usually close together, and usually the 

 print of the forefoot is obscured by that of the hind. 

 From Coal Measures, Joggins, N.S. See p. 104. 



Resurrection Plant. «, 



Lewisia Eediviva Pursh — Order Portulacace^e. 



By A. J. Hill, M.A., C.E. 



This is unquestionably one of the most beautiful of the 

 British Columbia flora and well worthy of cultivation, 

 which its rare tenacity of vitality renders comparatively 

 easy. Its name, Eediviva, is derived from the fact of its 

 springing into active growth, even when dried for months 

 in a herbarium, on the admission of dampness, or as a 

 result of the change from the drying air of summer to the 

 less. arid atmosphere of autumn. It is a complete surprise 

 to the unwarned collector to find on opening his crisp and 

 dessicatecl specimens that the Lewisia roots have started 

 their tiny plumules into vigorous growth. 



The plant is limited in range, as far as known, to the 

 . arid plateau above the Cascades and to the meridian of 

 Ashcrof t, extending thence South into Eastern Washington 

 and Oregon. (See Macoun's Canadian Catalogue). Its 

 favorite habitat is the soddy trenches formed of the 

 detritus of the adjoining trap mountains which are im- 

 pregnated with potash salts — the source of the general 

 fertility of the arid belt. 



The plant gives notice of its presence in early spring 

 by a plumule of small fleshy cylindrical leaves which 

 appear above the surface, and attain a height of not more 

 than \\ to 2 inches, followed late in May and June by 



