298 (JKOLOGICAL SURVEY OP CANADA. 



Excluded Species. 

 Leucothoe racemosa, <^iay. 



Andromeda racfmosa, Pursli. Fl. I., 204. 



Piutsh civdits this spocios, also to Canada, but Jis it cannot possibly 

 Iio within our limits 1 oxchulo it. 



359. CALLUNA, Salisb. (HEATHER.) 



(1385.) C. vulgaris, Salisb. 



C. Atlantica, Soem. Journ. Bot. IV., 305. 



East coast of Ncwfoundhuul, near Fenyland, Lat. 4*7°, Long. 52° 50' 

 west, forming a small patch about three yards square. The locality is 

 in the same part of the island to whicli the specimens collected by 

 Mr. Cormaclv, are referred, namely, the south-east peninsula ; and two 

 additional localities in this peninsula are noticed on Cormack's label, 

 namely, the head of St. Mary's Bay and Trej^assy Bay or Harbor. 

 (Journal of Botany, Vol. III., page 221.) In a wet springy place, among 

 spruce stumps, in peaty soil, overlying clay, on the farm of Mr. 

 Robertson, St. Ann's, Inverness Co., Cape Breton Island. (Lawson.) 

 Dartmouth Hills near Halifax ; Point Pleasant Park, Halifax ; East 

 Bay, Cape Breton Island, in considerable quantity ; Caplin Bay, two 

 miles from Ferryland, which is about thirty-five miles south of St. 

 John's, there is a bed of heather, of no great extent but healthy and 

 flourishing. At Renews, about twenty or thirty miles from Ferryland, 

 there is also a (juantity of heather, supposed to have been derived fi'om 

 Caplin Bay growth, but this is only conjecture. (Lawson in Transac- 

 tions of Nova Scotia Institute of Natural Science, Vol. IV., page 167.) 



360. LOISELEURIA, Desv. (ALPINE AZALEA.) 



(1386.) procumbens, Desv. 



Azalea procumbens, Linn. Hook. Fl. II., 44. 



Newfoundland and Labradoi-. (Morrison.) On hill sides Cariboo, La- 

 brador. (Butler.') Summit of Mount Albert, Caspe, altitude nearly 4,000 

 feet. (Macoun.) Barren grounds from Lat. 65° to the Arctic Islands. 

 (Richardson.) Bank's Islands and Mount Edgecombe, Lat. 54°. North- 

 west Coast. (Menzies.) Cape Lisburne and islands of Ounalashka and 

 Chamisso. (Rothr. Alask.) On both sides of Baffin's Bay and Davis 

 Strait. (Capt. Markham.) Back's Great Fish River. (Capt. Back.)! 



