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Stems 2-4' high, with the deep-blue flowers often nearly twice longer than 

 the calyx-lobes. As in the specimens from Colorado, the calyx-tube is wholly 

 glabrous. Shores of the Arctic Ocean from Grreenland to Behring Strait ; 

 Rocky Mountains of Colorado. In the Uintas, with the last ; 11-12,000 feet 

 altitude; August. (730.) 



Specularia peefoliata, a. do. Throughout the Eastern States from 

 the Atlantic to the Mississippi ; from Kansas to New Mexico and Western 

 Texas, and in Washington Territory. Lower canons of the Wahsatch, near 

 Salt Lake City, at 5,000 feet altitude; May. (731.) 



Heteeocodon^ earifloeum, Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. 8oc., n. s., 8. 

 255. Glabrous or more or less subaculeate-hispid ; stems 2-12' high, simple 

 or branching at base, very slender and weak ; leaves rather distant but some- 

 what in pairs, 3-6" in diameter, sharply dentate, the margin slightly revolute ; 

 calyx-lobes ovate, dentate ; the light-blue or white corolla 1" long ; capsule 

 broadly ovate, bristly upon the angles. — From Washington Territory to the 

 Sacramento ; (5005 Bolander and 280 Torrey.) Havallah and East Hum- 

 boldt Mountains, Nevada ; 6,000 feet altitude ; June-August. (732.) 



ERICACE^. 



VACCimuM ULiGiNOSUM, L. Alpine peaks of the White Mountains and 

 Northern New York; Newfoundland and Labrador, and from latitude 52° to 

 the Arctic Ocean, Behring Strait and Grreenland ; Wind River Mountains, 

 Wyoming, (Frdmont.) Uinta Mountains ; 6,000 feet altitude; August. (733.) 



Vaccinium c^spitosum, Mx. On the West Coast from Sitka to Wash- 

 ington Territory and eastward to the Saskatchewan, Hudson's Bay and Lake 

 Superior ; in the White Mountains, and in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. 

 Found in the Clover Mountains, Nevada, and in the Uintas ; 8-10,000 feet 

 altitude ; August, September. (734.) 



Vaccinium mtetilloides, Mx. Newfoundland, and west of Hudson's 

 Bay south of latitude 57° to Washington Territory, Colorado and Northern 

 Michigan. Uintas ; 9,000 feet altitude ; July. (735.) 



Vaccinium Myetillus, L. DC. Prodr. 7. 573. Branches sharply 



1 HETEEOCODON, Nutt. Calyx-limb foliaceous, 5- (or 3-4-) parted. Corolla campanulate, 

 5-cleft, in the lower flowers none or minute. Stamens 5, included, the filaments free, shorter than the 

 anthers. Stigmas 3, short. Capsule roundish, angled, membranous, 3-c6lled, bursting irregularly at the 

 base. Seeds compressed, triangular, glabrous. — A slender annual, with alternate amplexioaul small 

 rounded dentate leaves ; flowers small, sessile, solitary, the upper ones only with a ^jorolla. 

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