300 MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



Gaultheria humifusa (Graham) ; Vaccinium haiui/usitni Graham, 



Edinb. N. Phil. Journ. 1831 : 193 ; Gaultheria Myrsinites Hook. 



Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 35. 1834 [Syn. Fl. 2^ 30; Man. R. M. 228; 



Bot. Cal. I : 454]. 



Wooded hillsides, at an altitude of 2500 m. 



Yellowstone Park: East De Lacy's Creek, Aug. 10, 1897, 

 Rydberg & Bessey, 4661; Broad Creek, 1885, Tzuccdy, p2j ; 1884, 

 ^j6; 1873, Parry, igj. 



VACCINIACEAE. 



* Vaccinium membranaceum Uougl. ; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 32 



[111. Fl. 2 : 576] ; Vaccinium niyrtilloides Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 



32 [Syn. Fl. 2': 24] ; not Michx. 1803. 



A species with oval or oblong-ovate serrulate leaves, green on both 

 sides, and purple-black berries. In woods, up to an altitude of 2000 m. 



Montana: Spanish Basin, i8g6, J^/odiiian, 711; Granite, 1892, 



Kclsey; Gallatin Co., Mrs. Aldcrsoii : Belt Park, 1886, R. S. 



Williams, jj8 (last two specimens with narrow leaves) ; Missoula, 



1880, Watson; Bozeman, 1883, Cauhv, 216; Jocko River, 2/7, in 



part (narrow leaves). 



* Vaccinium ovalifolium Smith, in Rees' Cycl. No. 2 [Syn. Fl. 2': 



24; 111. Fl. 2: 577; Bot. Cal. i: 451]. ' 



Like the last but with leaves which are paler beneath. Woods, 

 at an altitude of about 2000 m. 



Montana: Spanish Basin, 1896, Flodman, jio. 



* Vaccinium globulare. 



A shrub 3-8 dm. high, glabrous throughout except slightly pubes- 

 cent on the veins ; stem and branches round, only the youngest 

 branches slightly angled : bark of stems gray, somewhat shreddy, 

 that of the branches brown or of the 3'Oungest yellowish ; leaves 1-3 

 cm. long, very short-petioled, broadly oval or obovate, obtuse or 

 acute, thin, somewhat paler beneath, reticulate, finely serrate; teeth 

 often with a fine hair-like mucro ; pedicels 5-10 mm. long: calyx- 

 teeth almost obsolete ; corolla depressed-globose, yellowish white ; 

 berry purplish, 6-8 mm. in diameter. 



This species has been confused with ['. membranaceum Dougl. or 

 V. nivrtilloides Hook, and mav be included in Hooker's description as 

 it is in Gray's in his Synoptical Flora. There is in the Torrey Her- 



