410 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEYV 
VACCINIACE® 
Vaccinium uliginosum L. Bog Bilberry. 
Common on the peat-bogs. 
It has a bluish-black berry. I did not know this bilberry when I 
went to Kolguev, and used to puzzle much over its stout habit of growth 
and woody stems. But we ate the berries, and they were excellent. 
V. Vitis-Idea L. Cow-berry. 
This was widely distributed over sandy places. It was common by 
our Scharok camp. It may be distinguished from the preceding by its 
red berry. 
ERICACEAZ 
Arctostaphylos alpina Spr. Alpine Bear-berry. 
This bear-berry was very conspicuous on all sandy places in August 
and September, where it formed bright crimson-scarlet patches as its 
leaves withered. 
Pyrola minor L. Common Wintergreen. 
I saw this charming little flower only once on Kolguev. Three plants 
of it were growing on a Pugrinoy gully when I passed on August 28, 
the flowers pink, and the leaves edged with crimson. This specimen 
resembles P. minor in that the style scarcely protrudes beyond the 
corolla, and that the petals are concave and close over the stamens. 
On the other hand, in the marked veining of the leaves, it inclines to 
P. rotundifolia. 
GENTIANACE/Z 
Gentiana verna L. 
This is so rare on Kolguev that I saw it only in one place, viz., in 
the Gobista Mountains on August 27. But at that date the flowering 
was over. 
