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{Brummond..) South Kootanie Pass, altitude Y,000 feet, 49th parallel ; 

 Klootch-oot-a Lake, B.C. (Dawson.) On the higher mountain slopes. 

 Kicking Horse Pass. (Macoun.) Bartlett Bay, Alaska. (Meehan.) 



362. KALMIA, Linn. (AMERICAN LAUREL.) 



(1392.) K. latifolia, Linn. Calico-bush. 



Credited to Canada by Pursh. and lately by Dr. Gray, but evidently 

 unknown to local collectors. (Macoun.) Eeported as being found in 

 ravines and near ponds in the interior, up Salmon Eiver, and on Esqui- 

 maux Island, Labrador. (W. E. Steams.) Clearly a broad-leaved 

 form of K. angustifolia, which is common on Anticosti, is referred to 

 here. (Macoun.) 



(1393.) K. angustifolia, Linn. Sheep Laurel, Lambkill. 



Labrador, Newfoundland, Anticosti, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, 

 thence westward through Quebec and northern Ontario to the Georgian 

 Bay. Very abundant in the Maritime provinces, often covering large 

 spaces in boggy or rocky places with its beautiful pui'ple flowers. 

 Throughout Canada to Hudson Bay. {Michxmx.) James Bay. (Brown.) 



(1394.) K. glauca, Ait. 



K. glauca, var. rosmarinifolia, Hook. Fl. II., 41. 



Common in peat bogs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but scarcely 

 going north of the Ai-ctic circle. (Hooleer.) Newfoundland and Hudson 

 Bay. (Gray.) Sitka. (Eothr. Alash.) Port Wrangel, Alaska. 

 (Meehan.) Point Ogle, Arctic Coast. (McGrill Goll. Serb.) Greenland. 

 (Hook. Arct. PL) Specimens from various localities have leaves varying 

 from very narrowly linear and revolute to broadly oblong and almost 

 plain, but frequently these diverse leaf forms are obtained from the 

 same group of plants. 



Var. microphylla, Hook. PI. H., 41. (?) 



Specimens referred to this form have the leaves sometimes in threes, 

 almost oval, perfectly glaucus, not the least revolute and with a strong 

 midrib. In swamps in the Eocky Mountains. (Brummond.) Peaty 

 swamps along the Telegraph Trail, northern British Columbia. 

 (Macoun.) Tsi-tsult Mountains, and swamps along the Skeena Eiver, 

 B.C. (Bawson.) Cariboo Mountains, B.C. (Cowley.) 



