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the coast of British Columbia, Washington and 

 Oregon. 



This is the western red cedar closely re- 

 sembling the eastern Juuipcrus virginiana L. 

 It differs from the latter in its stouter branch- 

 lets and in having fruit which ripens the second 

 year, while that of Juiiipcriis virginiana ripens 

 the first year. 



This is evidently the tree which is reported 

 in Macoun's (*) Catalogue under the name of 

 Junipcriis arc i denial is Hooker, as occurring on 

 rocky points of Vancouver Island and small 

 islands in the Culf of Georgia. I have seen no 

 specimens of Junipcrus scopulorum from Van- 

 couver Island, but specimens which I have ex- 

 amined from San Juan Island, Washington, 

 belong to this species, f 



* MacouD, J. Cat. Can. PI. 1:463.1883. 



f Two species of arborescent savin-leaved Junipers occur in the 

 northwestern United States and it is possible that both are found in 

 the interior of British Columbia. One, considered by Sargent to be 

 the fiiuipous occidentalis of Hooker, is a tree with stout, terete 

 twigs; leaves usually in threes, but occasionally even on the same 

 plant in twos, minutely serrulate, conspicuously glandular; fruit 

 large, its flesh filled with resin glands. This species is distributed 

 generally at high altitudes from Idaho and eastern Washington south. 

 ward through the basin region to the California Sierras. It does not 



