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363. LEDUM, Linn. (LABRADOR TEA.) 



(1395.) L. palustre, Linn. 



L. palustre, L. Var. angmtifolium, Hook. Fl. II., 44. 



Bogs, Newfoundland, Labrador, and through the Arctic regions to 

 Alaska and Aleutian Islands. (Gray.) East coast of Hudson Bay. 

 (J2. Bell.) Norton Sound, to Point Barrow and northern coast. (Hothr. 

 Alask.) Fort Wrangel, Alaska. (Meehan.) Back's Great Fish Eiver 

 and Hudson straits. (McGill Coll. Serh.) Between the Coppermine 

 Eiver and Cape Turn-again, Lat. 67° 54', Long. 115° 31' west. (Dease.) 

 Greenland. (Hook. Arct. PI.) Sukkertoppen, Lat. 65° ; Holsteinburg , 

 Lat. 68°. (Dr. Kane.) Hudson Bay specimens have the pedicels 

 clothed with ferruginous hairs. 



Var. dilatatum, Wahl. 



Approaching the next, having broader leaves and sometimes long 

 oval capsules. North-west Coast, Sitka, &c. (Gray.) 



(1396.) L. latifolium, Ait. Labrador Tea. 



L. palustre, L. Var. latifolium, Hook. Fl. II., 44. 



Peat bogs and marshes from Labrador, Newfoundland and the Mari- 

 time provinces westward to the Pacific. This species has a more 

 southern range than L. palustre, and may be distinguished from it by 

 never having ten stamens but more commonly five. 



(1397.) L. glandulosum, Nutt. 



Southern boundary of British Columbia and in the Eocky Moun- 

 tains. '(Gray.) 



364. RHODODENDRON, Linn. (ROSE BAY, AZALEA.) 



(1398.) R. Kamtschaticum, Pall. 



Bank's Island and Port Edgecombe, North-west Coast, Lat. 53°. 

 (Menzies.) Ounalashka. (Rothr. Alash.) Alaska and Aleutian Islands. 

 (Gray.) 



(1399.) R. albiflorum, Hook. Mountain Ehododendron. 



Alpine woods of the Eocky Mountains. (Drummond.) Western 

 summit of Crow Nest Pass and eastern summit of North Kootanie 

 Pass ; Misinchinca Eiver, near Pine Eiver Pass, Eocky Mountains, 



