

22o' Vacciniaceae 



Throughout the region in moist woods 

 and slopes; flowering during June. 



A shrub 1-4 feet high, with 

 Ledum 



Greenland- twi ^ s densely sty woolly. 

 icum Oeder. Leaves oblong, obtuse, 1-2 inches 

 Labrador long, J-J an inch wide, green 

 and deeply veined above, densely 

 brown woolly beneath, the 'margins strongly 

 revolute. Flowers numerous, white, nearly 

 \ an inch broad in close umbels or corymbs ; 

 petals 5, narrow, spreading. 



Abundant throughout the region at the 

 lower altitudes in bogs and swamps; flower- 

 ing during June. 



VACCINIACEAE 

 Huckleberry Family 



Shrubs or small trees with alternate leaves 

 and small perfect flowers; calyx tube adnate 

 to the ovary, 4-5-lobed or cleft; corolla 45- 

 lobed, rarely divided into single petals, de- 

 ciduous; stamens twice as many as the 



