34 - Sunday, July 14, 1985 - North Shore News

Ice age plants found |

TWO BOTANISTS from’ north Vancouver Island, A second type of rare curred, the glaciers forced
B.C.’s Provincial Museum in where the botanists found dwarf fern, the hybrid vegetation growing in
Victoria have discovered rare the rare vegetation. spleenwort, until now has Canada to ‘migrate’? south
alpine plants, growing on © Among the plants found been seen growing only in in order to survive, Dr.

Vancouver Island, which by Dr. Bob Ogilvie and Dr. the southern Alps. A third Ogilvie says. When the ice
they believe are survivors of Adolf Ceska was Britton’s dwarf fern, the moon wort, sheets retreated (10,000 years
the last ice age. bladder fern, a ‘dwarf’ is known to live in

When. the last ice age oc- - fern two to three inches southwestern U.S.out until north and reconquered their
curred some 20,000 years high, which they named now was unknown

ago, few places in Canada after a colleague, Dr. Canada.
escaped being buried under Donald Britton of the Uni- Altogether, th

that were not buried were is not known anywhere else rare alpine plants.

several mountain peaks on in the world. When the last ice age oc-

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glaciers. Among the regions _ versity of Guelph. This plant found 20 different species of Page 39

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