dition into North America. He found it abundantly on 
high alpine woods of the Rocky Mountains, about lat. 52°. 
It was originally discovered by Micuaux in“ Canada and 
Hudson’s Bay,” and it was found by Mr. Menztes on the 
North-west coast, and by Mr. Dovetas on the West side of 
the Rocky Mountains: so that like the V. cespitosum 
already figured in our Magazine, its place of growth extends 
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 
Descr. In the Glasgow Botanic Garden, this plant forms 
a shrub about a foot high, with spreading branches, the 
younger ones of which are distinctly angular, pale brown. 
Leaves oval, sometimes oval-lanceolate, rarely ovate, acute 
at both extremities, membranous, deciduous, veiny, serrat- 
ed, glabrous. Peduncles solitary, short, curved downwards, 
each bearing a solitary, pendent flower : of which the corolla 
is remarkable for its agon-shaped appearance, being glo- 
boso-urceolate, but singularly depressed, pale yellowish- 
green, or dingy white tinged with red. Stamens ten. Fila- 
ments glabrous: Anthers with two rather short awns. The 
fruit is large, globose, blackish-purple, apparently desti- 
tute of bloom, and according to the observations both of 
Mr. Drummonp and Mr. Dovexas, highly esteemed by the 
natives. 
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Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil and Calyx. 3. Stamens: magnified. 
