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Hcib. TJrwp! (Mertens). 



Distrib. Arctic and alpine Europe; from the Altai region of Siberia to the Ochotsk 

 district; Sag-halm, Alaska, in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado, east to Newfoundland 

 and Labrador; Greenland. 



164. Adenophora verticillata, Fisch. in Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosc. vi, p. 167; Ledeb. Fl.Ross. 



ii, p. 892; Fr. & Sav. Enum. i, p. 278, rr, p. 422. Campanula tetraphylla, 

 Thunb. Fl. Ja]>. p. 87. 

 Hub. Htorofu, at Tsurubetsu. My specimen is too yonng to determine the variety. 

 It has four smooth obovate leaves in a whorl. 



Distrib. Baikal-Siberia, Dahuria, Manchuria, Saghalin and Japan. 



ERICACE^J. 



165. Vaccinium Oxycoccus, L. Sp. p. 351; A. Gray, Synop. Fl. n, p. 25; Max. Mel. 



Biol, vni, p. 614; Pallas, Fl. Ross, i, 2, p. 47. 

 Hah. Kurile Islands (ex Pallas). 



Dr. Gray, in the supplement to his Synoptical Flora (ir, p. 396), refers the plants from 

 Japan, Saghalin, northeastern Asia, and also from Washington Territory and northern 

 Oregon, having larger and obtuse leaves, and flowers which are strictly umbellate from 

 the scaly bud, to his new var. intermedium. Among the Hakodate specimens collected by 

 J. Small there is one which has a leafy shoot starting from the flower-bearing bud, ap- 

 proaching Vaccinium macrocaiyon in general appearance. 



Distrib. In sphagnous swamps in the subarctic and alpine regions of Europe, north- 

 ern Asia and North America. 



166. Vaccinium Vitis-Idaea, L. Sp. p. 351; A. Gray, Bot. Jap. p. 397, Synop. Fl. n, p. 



25; Max. Mel. Biol, vm, p. 605; Pallas, Fl. Ross, i, 2, p. 46. 



Hob. Kurile Islands (ex Pallas) ; Shumshu (J. Akakabe) ; Shikotan; Etorofu, at 

 Furubetsu, Arimoi and Shibetoro. 



Distrib. All around the arctic circle, descending southward in Europe to the alpine 

 regions of the Mediterranean border, and to the Caucasus; and in Asia, to the Altai 

 Mountains and Dahuria, and to the :dpine region of Kiusiu in Japan; in North America, 

 to British Columbia in the west, and to northern New England in the east. 



167. Vaccinium praestans, Lamb, in Trans. Linn. Soc. x, p. 264, t. 9; Ledeb. Fl. Ross, n, 



p. 904; Max. Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 187, t. 8, f. 19-23, Mel. Biol, xn, p. 489; F. 



Schm. Fl. Sach. p. 156. 

 Hal). Shikotan, in exposed grassy places on top of cliffs. Htorqfu, at Furubetsu. 

 Distrib. Kamtschatka (western coast, J. Small) ; northeastern Manchuria; Saghalin, 

 Yezo (Otsnishi, Prov. Nemuro!) ; and in the alpine regions of middle Japan. 



168. Vaccinium uliginosum, L. Sp. p. 350; Ledeb. Fl. Ross, n, p. 904; Pallas, Fl. Ross. 



i, 2, p. 45; Max. Mel. Biol, vni, p. 605; A. Gray, Synop. Fl. n, p. 22. 

 Hab. Kurile Islands (ex Pallas). 



Distrib. In the arctic, alpine and subalpinc regions of Europe; northern Asia, extend- 

 ing to middle Japan in the east; and in North America throughout arctic and British 

 America coming down to Oregon in the west, and to New England and New York in 

 the east. 



