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169. Vaccinium hirtum, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 155; Max. Mel. Biol, viii, p. G05; Fr. & Sav. 



Enum. T, p. G05. — Vai-. Smallii, Max. I. c. Yacciniwn Smallii, A. Gra}^ Bot. 



Jap. p. 398; F. Schm. Fl. Sach. p. 156. 

 JIab. Etorofu, at Furubetsu and Ai-imoi. 

 Distrih. Soutbei'ii Sagiialiu to Kiusiii in Ja[)an. 



170. Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi, Spreng. Syst. Yeg. ir, p. 287; Ledeb. Fl. Koss. ir, p. 900; 



F. Schm. Fl. Sach. p. 157; A.Gray, Synop. Fl. ii, p. 27. Arhutus Uva-ursi, 

 L. Sp. p. 395; Pallas, Fl. Ross, i, 2, p. 48. 

 Hal), Kurile Islands (e.i:; Pallas). 



Distrih. Arctic and alpine Europe; northern Asia, especially in the niomitain dis- 

 tricts of southern Siberia, northern Saghalin, eastern Siberia and Kamtschatka; Alaska 

 in JS^orth America, where it spreads over the arctic and northern regions descending 

 along' the higher mountains to lHew Mexico and northern California in the west, and to 

 Pennsylvania in the cast. 



171. Cassiope lycopodioides, Don, in Edinb. N^. Phil. Journ. xvir, p. 157; Ledeb. Fl. 



Ross. II, p. 912; Max. Mel. Biol, viii, p. Gil; Fr. & Sav. Enum. i, p. 285; A. 



Gray, Synop. Fl. ii, p. 3G. Andromeda lycopodioides, Pallas, Fl. Ross, i, 2, p. 



55, t. 73, f. 1. 

 Hah. Shvmslm (Hakodate Museum). 



Distrih. Eastern Siberia in the Ochotsk district; Kamtschatka; Yezo (Vole. Talmai, 

 Prov. Ibuii) to middle Japan; Aleutian Islands to Oregon in Korth America. 



172. Leucothoe Grayana, Max.! Mel. Biol, viii, p. 613; Fr. & Sav. Enum. i, p. 281. L. 



chlorantha, A. Gray, Bot. Jap. p. 399 (not DC). 



Hah. Shlliotan, on hillsides. 



The plant is common in the mountain woods of Yezo on both the eastern and western 

 coasts. It comes down as far south as middle Japan, where it is found only in the al- 

 pine woods. 



173. Bryanthus taxifolius, A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad, vii, p. 368, Synop. Fl. ii, p. 37. 



FhijUodove ta.nfolia, Salisb. Parad. Lond. t. 56; Ledeb. Fl. Ross, ii, p. 916; 

 Max. Rhod. A.s". Or. p. 6. 

 Hah. Paramushir! (ea;Max.). 



Distrih. ISTorthern Europe and the central Pyrenees; Altai and Baikal districts of Si- 

 bei'ia, Dahuria, northern Manchuria, eastern Siberia, Kamtschatka, northei-n and middle 

 Japan; Aleutian Islands, Copper Island; and also on the alpine mountain summits of 

 northern Xew England and Canada, Labrador, Greenland. 



174. Rhododendron chrysanthum, Pall. It. Ill, p. 729, t. IV, f. 1-2; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ll, p. 



920; Max. Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 189, Rhod. As. Or. p. 20. 



Hah. Shumshu! (ex Max.). 



Distrih. Altai and Baikal districts of Siberia, Dahuria, northeastern Manchuria, east- 

 ern Sibci-ia, Kamtschatka, and adjacent islands to Sitka; Saghalin, northern and middle 

 Japan, Yezo (L. Bohmer), Tateyama, Prov. Etchu (Yatabe). 



175. Rhododendron kamtschaticum, Pall. Fl. Ross, i, p. 18, t. 33; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, 



p. 922; Max. Rhod. As. Or. p. 11; A. Gray, Synop. Fl., ii, p. 10. 

 Hah. Urup! {(-x Max.). Hhil-otav. on rocky clifts along the hai-bor. 



