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FIGURE 37.—Salal (Gaultheria shalion), a common shrub of the Pacific coast for- 
ests. The herbage is not palatable to livestock, but the purplish berrylike fruits 
are edible 
Bog kalmia, locally known as pale laurel (. polifolia, syns. K. 
glauca and (western form) A. occidentalis), ranges in northern 
or montane bogs from Newfoundland and Labrador to Alaska, north- 
ern California, Manitoba, the Great Lakes region, and northern 
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