376 Dr. HookER's Account of a 
Greenland ; Dr. Richardson, of the shores of the Arctic Sea. 
It was found likewise in Melville Island and in Five Hawser 
Bay by Captain Parry. 
VACCINEZÆ. 
18. VacciNIUM. 
S6. V. uliginosum. 
A small-leaved variety, with the foliage entirely of a reddish 
hue ; from the circumstance, perhaps, of its being gathered in 
autumn. 
This species is a native of marshy and generally alpine 
grounds in various parts of Europe, Asia and North America ; 
as France, Switzerland, Piedmont, Germany, Britain, Lap- 
land, Kamschatka, about Lake Baikal and other parts of Si- 
beria, and Iceland : in various parts of North America, to the 
shores of the Arctic Sea, and on the islands adjacent, as well 
as in Greenland. 
ERICIN E Æ. 
19. RHODODENDRON. 
37. R. lappomcum. 
This charming plant may also be considered as exclusively 
arctic, the alps of Dahuria only being an exception. It seems 
otherwise confined to Lapland, Norway (but rare), the shores 
of the Arctic Sea and Greenland.—Only one specimen of it 
exists in the present collection. 
20. ANDROMEDA. 
38. A. tetragona. 
Inhabiting only high northern latitudes. Found exclusively 
in Lapland, Spitzbergen, Labrador and Canada, the north- 
west 
