1. V. occidentale Gray. Bog Bilberry, A low leafy shrub 30-40 cm, tall i 
with stiffish ascending branches, the bark smooth, mahogany color, the 
branchlets reddish, the internodes 3-10 mm, long; leaf-blades 1-2 cm, long, 
4-10 mm. wide, vale green or reddish, leathery, oval or obovate, blunt at 
the apex, narrowed at the base to a petiole 1-1.5 mm, long, both surfaces 
smooth, the margin entire; calyx 5-parted, the lobes acute, the corolla 
ile 
ovoid, 5 mm, long; the fruits pendulous, blue-black with a light bloom, F 
4-5 mm. in diameter, 
Infrequent in our region occurring in the southern portion in high 
boggy meadows. Hoodoo Lake, Shattuck and ienn; Crater Meadows, Sutton 86; 
Lolo Trail near Packers meadows, Kirkwood 2046; Weitas Cr., Piper 4046. 
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