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Var. atroCOCCUm, Grray. 



V. fuscatum, Gray, Manual Ed. I., 262. 



Apparently the Quebec and eastern and northern Ontario form. 

 Peat bogs and M^r Bleue near Ottawa. (Fletcher Fl. Ott.) Peat bog 

 five miles north of Colborne, Northumberland Co., Ont. (Macoun.) 

 Vicinity of London, Ont. (Burgess.) . 



Var. pallidum, Gray. 



F. pallidum, Gray, Man. Ed. I., 262. 



V. vacillans, Sommers' Flora of Nova Scotia, page 200, 1876. 



Grassy and rocky ground not rare. Point Pleasant, near Halifax, 

 N S. (Macoun.) Halifax, N.S. {Lawson.') 



(1356.) V. uliginosum, Linn, Bog Blueberry. 



In mountain bogs and exposed shores below, Lat. 50". From New- 

 foundland, Labrador, Anticosti, Skickshock Mountains and thence 

 westward to the Pacific and noi'thward to the Arctic Sea. Quebec ; 

 Gomin swamps, near Eiviere-du-Loup, Q. (Thomas.) On exposed 

 rocks north-east coast of Lake Superior, above Michipicotin, and in a 

 peat bog near Port Arthur, also at Mclntyre's Bay, Lake Nipigon. 

 (Macoun.) North-east coast of Hudson Bay. (R.Bell.) Sitka, Ouna- 

 lashka, Kotzebue Sound, and the northern coast. (Bothr. Alask.) 

 Bartlett's Bay, Alaska. (Meehan.) Northumberland Strait north 

 of Hudson Bay, (Capt. Markham.) Back's Great Fish Eiver. (Capt. 

 Back.) Greenland. (Hook. Arct. Fl.) Fiske Fiord, Disco, Proven, 

 Uppernavik, and Smith's Sound, Lat. 78°. (Dr. Kane.) 



Var. mucronatum, Herder. 



Alaska and Aleutian Islands to Behring's Stj-aits. (G-ray.) 



(135*7.) V. salicinum, Cham. 

 Ounalashka, in moss. (Chamisso.) 



(1358.) V, caespitosum, Michx. Dwarf Bilberry. 



A dwarf shrub growing on grassy and exj)osed ridges or mountains, 

 abundant on the elevated plains west of Edmonton and through the 

 Rocky Mountains into northern British Columbia. On hillsides, 

 Labrador. (Butler.) Anticosti, at the mouth of Jupiter River ; on 

 Mount Albert, Gasp^ ; on rocks above the falls of Montreal River, 

 north-east coast of Lake Superior ; Cypress Hills and Bow River Pass 

 and northward along the Foothills to Little Slave Lake and westward 

 to MacLeod's Lake, B.C. (Macoun.) Dean or Salmon River, B.C. 

 (Dawson.) Sitka. (Bothr. Alask.) 



