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SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES.


Family ERICACEÆ.

ANDROMEDA CRASSA Lesq.

Pl. XVI, fig. 3.

ANDROMEDA CRASSA Lesq., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XI, p. 16, 1888.

This species has not before been figured. It still rests on the type specimen.

Locality.—Van Horn's ranch, South Fork of John Day River, about 12 miles west of Mount Vernon, Grant County, Oregon. Collected by Maj. Charles E. Bendire (U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 8511).

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