Records of Native Species

Provision has been made for keeping the records of all specimens found, or reported as found, in British Columbia. Many of these records appear in catalogues, floras, and in the publications of scientific societies. This necessitates the perusal of past and current literature relating to British Columbia plants.

A card-index of the native plants is in course of preparation (Fig. 3), and each card indicates where the plant is described and illustrated, and whether it is represented by herbarium or fluid specimens.

A record sheet is provided for each species or variety, and each sheet indicates: (a) Area or river-basin in which the plant was found; (b) locality in detail, giving, if necessary, the latitude and longitude; (c) date; (d) collector, or authority of the record; (e) general remarks. The records are kept in a loose-leaf system, so that additional sheets may be interposed where necessary. They are bound in spring-back binders which hold from 150 to 200 sheets of the same size as the herbarium sheets. They are classified according to Engler's system, and each volume has a thumb-index to facilitate the consultation of the records of any particular genus.

In the illustration (Fig. 6) will be seen a volume (a) placed so as to show the thumb-index. Another volume has been opened for recording purposes. The empty binder (b) may be seen, and (c) the record sheets in position for adding records.