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Stems 2-4' high, with the deep-blue flowers often nearly twice longer than 
the calyx-lobes. As in the specimens from Colorado, the calyx-tube is wholly 
glabrous. Shores of the Arctic Ocean from Greenland to Behring Strait ; 
Rocky Mountains of Colorado. In the Uintas, with the last ; 11-12,000 feet 
altitude; August. (730.) 
Specularia peefoliata, a. DC. Throughout the Eastern States from 
the Atlantic to the Mississippi ; from Kansas to New Mexico and Western 
Texas, and in Washington Territory. Lower canons of the Wahsatcb, near 
Salt Lake City, at 5,000 feet altitude ; May. (731.) 
Hetekocodon^ eariflorum, Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, n. s., 8. 
255. Glabrous or more or less subaculeate-hispid ; stems 2-12' high, simple 
or branching at base, very slender and weak ; leaves rather distant but some- 
what in pairs, 3-6" in diameter, sharply dentate, the margin slightly revolute ; 
calyx-lobes ovate, dentate; the light-blue or white corolla 1" long; capsule 
broadly ovate, bristly upon the angles. — From Washington Territory to the 
Sacramento ; (5005 Bolander and 280 Torrey.) Havallah and East Hum- 
boldt Mountains, Nevada ; 6,000 feet altitude ; June-August. (732.) 
ERICACE^. 
Vaccinium uliginosum, L. Alpine peaks of the White Mountains and 
Northern New York; Newfoundland and Labrador, and from latitude 52° to 
the Arctic Ocean, Behring Strait and Greenland ; Wind River Mountains, 
Wyoming, (Fr(iracnt.) Uinta Mountahis; 6,000 feet altitude; August. (733.) 
Yaccinium C/ESpitosum, Mx. On the West Coast from Sitka to Wash- 
ington Territory and eastward to the Saskatchewan, Hudson's Bay and Lake 
Superior ; in the White Mountains, and in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. 
Found in the Clover Mountains, Nevada, and in the Uintas; 8-10,000 feet 
altitude ; August, September. (734.) 
Vaccinhjm myrtilloides, Mx. Newfoundland, and west of Hudson's 
Bay south of latitude 57° to AYasliington Territory, Colorado and Xortlicrn 
Michigan. Uintas; 9,000 feet altitude ; July. (735.) 
Yaccinium jMyrtillus, L. DC. Prodr. 7. 573. Branches sluirply 
' HETEROCODON, Nrxx. Calyx-limlj foliacooiis, 5- (or .'5-4-) ]);irte(l. Corolla Laiiipaniilatc, 
in the lower flowers none or miimte. Stamens 5, iuchided, the filaments free. s}iort( r than the 
anthers. Stigmas 3, short. Capsule rouiulish, angled, membranons, :3-celled, bursting irri guLirly at tlie 
base. Seeds compressed, triangular, glabrous. — A slender annual, with alternate aiii]ile\i«:uul small 
rounded dentate leaves; tlowers small, sessile, solitary, the upper ones only with a corol!,!. 
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