800 - DEPARTMENT OF TEE INTERIOR 



2 GEORGE V., A. 1912 



APPENDIX B. 



A KEPOET ON FOSSIL PLANTS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL 



BOUNDARY SURVEY FOR 1902-05, COLLECTED BY 



DR. R. A. DALY * 



By D. P. Penhallow, D.Sc, F.G.S.A. 



In the spring of 1903 I received from Dr. R. A. Daly, of the Department of 

 the Interior, a small collection of plants from the region of the International 

 Boundary in British Columbia, as derived from a rapid reconnaissance (in 1902). 

 This material was reported upon tentatively in May of the same year, and 

 though much of it was of such an imperfect nature as to render final conclu- 

 sions impossible, it was nevertheless of a very suggestive character, and it not 

 only yielded some new species, but it permitted of provisional conclusions as 

 to the ages of the several deposits represented. 



In the autumn of 1905, Dr. Daly forwarded to me a larger collection, embrac- 

 ing material of a much more definite character, and derived not only from the 

 same, but from other localities in the same general region. This material was 

 found to confirm many of the provisional conclusions derived from the previous 

 collection; to add several new species to our knowledge of the flora of that 

 section, and to afford very definite information as to the age of the deposits. 

 It is thus found to be desirable to combine these two collections in the present 

 report. As all the specimens were designated by numbers representative of 

 special localities, these numbers may be used in the present instance for con- 

 venience of reference; but the individual specimens of each group will also be 

 further designated by the use of subordinate letters or numbers which will be 

 found upon the label of each specimen described, and in this way the identity 

 may be fully established, and reference to the type facilitated. 



General Description of the Material and its Source. 



No. 250 of 1903 and 1905.f — The two collections under this number represent 

 identical localities. Dr. Daly states that they were obtained from a shallow 

 gulch east of a bridge over Kettle river, six miles up the stream from the town 

 of Midway. ' The formation is a' series of gray sandstone layers ; this is one 

 of the isolated patches of so-called Tertiary noted by Dawson in his description 

 of the interior of British Columbia,' and on the map of the Geological Survey 



* Read before the Royal Society of Canada, May 15, 1907, and printed in its Trans- 

 actions, Section IV, 1907, pp. 287-334. 



t The collection made in 1902 was forwarded to Professor Penhallow in 1903 and is 

 here referred to as the "1903" collection. 



