IP s t e I 6 i a 141 



Ciipressus nootkatensis 



J iinipcnis communis var. siherica 



J 11 ui penis scopulorum 



It is highly probable that further explora- 

 tion of the higher mountains of the interior will 

 reveal from one to three other species, of Abie- 

 tinecB, as several members of this tribe which 

 occur as alpine trees in the mountains of the 

 adjacent mainland have not yet been found in 

 Vancouver. 



No conifer is endemic to the island, and most 

 of the species recorded above are of very wide 

 distribution as may be seen from Table I. on 

 page 139. It will be noted from this table that 

 the species gradually die out northward. No 

 species occurs in Vancouver Island which does 

 not extend southward at least into Oregon either 

 along the coast, or in the Cascade Mountains. 

 Nearly all the species extend eastward across the 

 mountains of the interior of Washinsjton and 

 British Columbia to the Selkirk Mountains and 

 other western ranges of the Rocky Mountain 

 system. Very few of them are found in the 

 Rocky Mountains south of ^Montana. Several 



