192 APPENDIX. 



24. V. Myriillus. Linn. Sp. PL p. 498. Fl. Dan. t. 974. 

 Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 456. 



Of this plant there is but a single leaf, which was found 

 on an iceberg in the middle of Hudson's Strait, along with 

 some foliage of a Quercus ; nevertheless there can be, It hink, 

 no doubt of its belonging to our common Whortleberry. 

 This species of Vaccinium has never been given as a certain 

 inhabitant of North America. It was not found by Captain 

 Franklin, nor by any of our Arctic voyagers, nor is it in- 

 cluded in Pursh's or Nuttall's Floras of America ; but Sir 

 J. E. Smith, under the article of V. Myrtillus^ in Rees' Cy- 

 clopoedia, observes, " Mr. Menzies brought from the west 

 coast of America what we can scarcely consider more than 

 a gigantic variety of this plant, seven or eight feet high, lar- 

 ger in every part, with less distinctly serrated leaves." To 

 such an individual, however, the leaf in question can hardly 

 have belonged as it is unusually small. On the continent 

 of Europe, the common Whortleberry extends throughout all 

 Lapland, and it is common in Iceland. I have not seen' it 

 in any collection of Greenland plants, although Egede states 

 that it is found in that country. In Pennant's Arctic Zoology 

 it is given as an inhabitant of Nootka Sound. 



Arbutus. 



25. A. alpina. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 5Q6. Fl. Dan. t. 75. Sm. 

 Engl. Bot. t. 2039. Lightf. Fl. Scot. p. 215. t. 11. f. a. b. 

 Rich, in Frankl. Journ. ed. 4. App. p. 38. Hooker, in Parry's 

 2d Voy. App. ined. 



The berries of this plant in North America, Dr. Richard- 

 son tells us, are very juicy and pleasant. They are hoarded 

 up by the different kinds of marmot, and form the autum- 

 nal food of the Anas hyperborea. 



Empetrum. 



26. E. nigrum. Linn. Sp. PL p. 1450. Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 



