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Cupressus nootkatensts 
Juniperus communis var. siberica 
Juniperus 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 A bze- 
tine@, 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 Washington and 
British Columbia to the Selkirk Mountains and 
other western ranges of the Rocky Mountain 
system Very few of them “are found im ‘the 
Rocky Mountains south of Montana. Several 
