216 Rhodora [DEcEMBER 
1.5 mm. long.— E. rubrum La Pylaie, Voyage à l'isle de Terre-N. euve, 
6, 10 (1825); Gray, Mem. Am. Acad., n. s. iii. $ (1846); Brunet, 
Notes sur les Plantes recueilles en 1858 par M. l'Abbe Ferland, 7 
(186); Delamare, Renauld € Cardot, Florule de l'ile Miquelon, 28 
(1888); Waghorne, Summary Acct. of Wild Berries and other Edible 
Fruits of Nfd. and Lab. 9 (1888); as to the plant of British America, 
not Vahl. E. purpureum Raf. New Fl. pt. iii. 50 (1836), as to plant 
of Nfd. E. nigrum, var. purpureum DC. Prodr. xvii, pt. 1, 26 (1869), 
as to the plant of Nfd.; Simmons, Vase. Pl. Ellesmereland, 43 (1906), 
as to the plant of Nfd.; Fernald, Ruopora, xiii. 117, 123 (1911); 
not D. C. l. c. (1869) in its restricted sense. E. nigrum, var. andinum 
Fernald, Ruopora, iv. 150 (1902) as to the plant of Nfd.; Eames, 
Ruopora, xi. 95 (1909); not DC. 1. c. (1869).— Exposed sands or 
granitic or silicious gravels or ledges, southern Labrador, Newfound- 
land, St. Pierre et Miquelon, and coast of Saguenay County, Quebec, 
westward to the Mécatina region. LABRADOR: sand, l'Anse au Clair, 
July 7, 1893, Waghorne in U. S. Nat. Herb.; abundant on sand and 
gneissoid rocks, Blane Sablon, August 4, 1910, Fernald & W iegand, no. 
3661— plant also noted on the Quebec side of Blanc Sablon River. 
NEWFOUNDLAND: "les points culminans,” La Pylaie; St. John's, 
July 12, 1892, L. L. Dame; dry exposed summit of hill south of St. 
John’s, August 12, 1911, Fernald & Wiegand, no. 5821; Baccalieu 
Island, Notre Dame Bay, July, 1902, J. D. Sornborger; open granite 
slopes, altitude 180-350 m., Mt. Steepmore (or Seemore), July 12, 
1910, Fernald & Wiegand, no. 3659 (rype in Gray Herb.); alpine 
heath and open granite ledges at the summit, altitude 565 m., Mt. 
Musgrave, July 16, 1910, Fernald & Wiegand, no. 3660; dry exposed 
rocky slopes of Blomidon (“ Blow-me-Down") Mts., July 31, 1908, 
Eames & Godfrey, no. 7032; diorite tableland, altitude about 550 m., 
northern region of Blomidon, August 22, 1910, Fernald & Wiegand, 
no. 3662; Bluff Head, September 7, 1898, W aghorne; edge of rock, 
high upon hill, vicinity of Balena, Hermitage Bay, June 6, 1903, Wm. 
Palmer, no. 1335 (distributed as Phyllodoce coerulea); cited by Wag- 
horne and by Eames from numerous other stations on the South 
Coast. Sr. PIERRE ET MiqueLoN: St. Pierre, La Pylaie; August, 
1902, Bro. Louis Arsene. QuvkBEC: Blane Sablon (see note above); 
La Tabatiére, 1858, Abbé Ferland. 
It is a great pleasure to associate with this local and handsome 
shrub, which has been held to be distinct from Empetrum nigrum by 
most botanists whose field-experience has acquainted them with it, 
the name of so discriminating a collector as Dr. Edwin H. Eames who, 
on his herbarium specimens, has written: “seems to be specifically 
distinct from E. nigrum. It’s habit, place of growth, small size and 
color of fruit, leaves, etc., are constantly different"; and who, in dis- 
cussing the plant in Ruopora (as E. nigrum, var andinum), presented 
