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other native fruits, are not unpleasant. The two kinds are 

 exactly alike in foliage. Andromeda hypnoides, moss-like an- 

 dromeda, an inhabitant of the Alps of New Hampshire, Mount 

 Marcy in New York, Labrador, and the north-west coast, 

 was not detected by us on the interior canoe route. A. 

 lycopodioides, a Kamtschatka plant was found by Chamisso 

 on Unalashka. A. cupressina inhabits the Rocky Mountains 

 in lat. 56° north. A. mertensiana and A. stelleriana, so named 

 by Bongard, were discovered on Sitka by Mertens. A. tetra- 

 gona is one of the most northern plants, being an inhabitant of 

 the north end of Spitzbergen. It occurs on all the islands and 

 coasts of the Arctic Sea, from Greenland to Kotzebue Sound, 

 at Sitka, and as far south as Mount Hood on the 45th parallel. 

 It is also a Lapland and Siberia^ plant. Like the two pre- 

 ceding species, it is rather a wiry herb than a shrub. The 

 withered leaves of past years remain attached to the thread-like 

 stem, and may be used as fuel, a fact which Mr. Rae so fully 

 demonstrated, as we have mentioned, in a preceding page. 

 A. polifolia, rosemary andromeda, inhabits the Alps of New 

 Hampshire and New York, Wisconsin, Lake Superior, and the 

 country northwards to the Arctic Sea ; also the whole breadth 

 of the continent from Newfoundland and Labrador to Sitka 

 and Kotzebue Sound, with the exception of the prairies. It is 

 an inhabitant also of the higher Jura. A. calyculata, rusty- 

 leaved andromeda, grows in sphagnous bogs and on the flooded 

 strands of clear streams in the Northern States, and Rupert's 

 Land as far as the upper part of the Mackenzie, and also on the 

 shores of Beering's Sea. A. racemosa, cluster-bearing andro- 

 meda, grows in the moist copses of Canada, Massachusetts, 

 and New Jersey near the coast, extending from thence south- 

 wards. A. ligustrina, privet andromeda, a common shrub of 

 the Northern States, extends northwards to the Saskatchewan 

 basin. In this genus and in Arbutus it may be noticed, that the 

 more herbaceous species have generally the highest range. 



Phyllodoce taxifolia, or Menziesia ccerulea. This English plant 

 grows on the New Hampshire Alps, and has been found on the 

 Labrador coast. Steller is also said to have gathered it on the 



