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(916.) V. pauciflorum, Pylaie. Few-flowered Viburmim. 



F. acerifoKum, Bongard's Veg. Sitka. 



V. Oxycoccus, Pursh. Hook. Fl. I., 281, in part. 



7. edule, DC. Hook. Fl. I.,, 281, in part. 



Very common in cool low woods or on mountain slopes throughout 

 the northern forest region. Labrador. (Butler.) Mountains near 

 Joachim, Q. (Brunei.) Anticosti, Gasp6 Peninsula, north shore of 

 Lake Supei*ior, and westward to northern British Columbia, where it 

 is very abundant ; also, Cypress Hills, IST. W. T. (Macoun.) Flathead 

 Eiver, B. C. (Dawson.) Saskatchewan to Slave Lake in Lat. 66°. 

 (Richardson.) Sitka. (Bothr. Alash.) 



(giT.) V. Opulus, Linn. ' High-bush Cranberry. 



V. Oxycoccus, Pursh. Hook. Fl. I., 281, in part. 



V. edule, DC Hook. Fl. I., 281, in part. 



V. Opvlvs, Linn. Var. Americanum, Ait. Terr. & Gray, Fl. II., 18. 



In river valleys and low damp meadows by brooks. Anticosti, 

 ISTova Scotia, and westward to the valleys of the Eed, Assiniboine 

 and Saskatchewan rivers. More southern than the preceding, and 

 ripening its abundant fruit, which, however, is far from being so plea- 

 sant as that of V. pauciflorum, much later. 



(918.) V. lantanoides, Miohx. Hobble-bush. 



Common in cool, damp or rocky woods from Nova Scotia and New 

 Brunswick, throughout Quebec and northern Ontario, to Lake Superior. 



247. LINN/EA, Cronov. (TWIN-FLOWER.) 



(919.) L. boreal is, G-ronov. Northern Twin-flower. 



Yery abundant in cool, mossy woods from the Atlantic to the Pacific 

 and far northward. 



Var. longiflora, Torrey in Bot. Wilkes Bxped. 



Queen Charlotte Islands. (Dawson.) This form has larger flowers 

 with a long tapering tube and much longer and wider sepals. (Macoun.) 



248. SYMPHORICARPOS, Juss. (SNOW-BERRY.) 



(920.) S. occidentalis, E. Br. Wolf-berry. 

 Veiy common throughout the prairie region extending from the 



