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are uncertain of its range. Lake Mistassini. (J. M. Macoun.} Sum- 

 mit of Mount Albert, Shickshock Mountains, G-asp^ ; Blackfoot Cross- 

 ing. Bow Eiver, Alberta ; also mountain woods from Silver City, in 

 Rocky Mountains, westward to the summit of the Selkirk Mountains, 

 Lat. 51, B. C. (Macoun). South Kootanie and North Kootanie 

 Passes, Rocky Mountains. (Daivson.) Sitka. (Rothr. Alask.) 



(2069.) J. Sabina, L.var. procumbens, Pursh. Creeping Juniper. 



J. Sabina, var. /?. humilis, Hook. Fl. II., 166. 

 J.prostrata, Pers. Rich. App. 38. 

 Oupressus thyoides, Hook. Fl. II., 165. 



Abundant on exposed slopes and river banks from Anticosti, Nova 

 Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario, across the prairie region 

 to the summit of the Eocky Mountains at Kicking Horse Lake. In 

 the east it is usually found along rivers and lakes, creeping down the 

 banks or lying flat on the sand or rocks ; on the other hand, on the 

 prairie, it often covers wide areas of level, sandy ground, to the almost 

 total exclusion of other vegetation. 



564. TAXUS, Linn. (YEW.) 



(2070.) T. brevifolia, Nutt. Western Yew. 



T. laccata, Hook. Fl. II., 167, in part. 



T. Lindleyana, Murray, Lawson Cat. 1855, 15. 



This tree occurs on Vancouver Island, and on the shores of the main- 

 land adjacent, attaining sometimes a diameter of two feet. It is found 

 as large as eighteen inches in diameter on the Fraser, as far up as 

 Chapman's Bar, near the Suspension Bridge. It also occurs on the 

 Coquihalla, for twenty miles above Hope, and is found on the Lower 

 Skeena. Not found, or very sparingly, on Queen Charlotte Islands. 

 (Dawson.') Forming much of the underwood in woods west of the 

 Columbia and up Beaver Creek, in the Selkirk Mountains, at an altitude 

 of 3,500 to 4,000 feet. This may be the next species. (Macoun.') 



(20*71.) T. baccata, L. var. Canadensis, Gray. American Yew. 



T. baccata, Linn. Hook. Fl. II., 167. 



T. Canadensis, Willd. Pursh. Fl. I, 647. 



T. baccata, var. minor. Michx. Fl. II., 245. 



Eather common in cool, damp woods in many parts of the forest 

 country, extending from Newfoundland, Anticosti and Nova Scotia, 

 where it is abundant, through New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario ; 

 on the shore of Lake Huron it often forms impenetrable thickets, and 



