Tas. 5340. 
BOTRYCHIUM DAUCIFOLIUM. 
Carrot-leaved Moonwort. 
Nat. Ord. Frurces, § OpH1oGLossE#.—CRYPTOGAMIA STACHYOPTERIDES. 
Gen. Char. Capsule biseriales, libere, erectze, sessiles, globose, ab apice ad 
basin in valvas duas eequales hemisphericas demum patentissimas dehiscentes. 
Vene flabellatee aut pinnate, simplices aut furcatee, interne venuleque apice 
obtuse liberee. Panicula fertilis, ramosissima, ramis (rachiolis) planis aut semi- 
teretibus, plus minus marginatis.—Species hujus generis in regione boreali et tem- 
perata Europe, Asize e¢ Americee, in regione temperata Australie, et in montibus 
regionem temperatam referentibus Asize et Americ obveniunt et magna affinitate 
juncte sunt. Presi. 
Botrycuium daucifolivm ; radice fasciculata, ffonde sterili spithamea et ultra 
membranacea subquinquangulari tripartita, partitionibus seu pinnis prima- 
rlis petiolatis subdeltoideis, inferne bipinnatis superne bipinnatifidis omni- 
bus acuminatis, pinnis vel laciniis ultimis ovatis ovato-oblongisve omnibus 
serratis terminali majori venis vere pinnatis conspicuis 2—3-4-furcatis, 
frondis fertilis tripinnate pedunculo elongato longe infra sterilem inserto et 
eam superante. 
Borrycutum daucifolium. Wail. Cat. n. 49 (in one impression, whilst n. 49 of 
another impression is given as ‘‘ Botrychium subcarnosum, Wal/.—Osmunda 
lanigera, Wall. Herb. 1823”). Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 161; and in 
Hook. Bot. Mise. v. 3. p. 224. Presi, Tent. Pterid. Suppl. p. 46. 
BorrycuiumM subcarnosum. Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 312; via Wall. 
It would be no slight task for any one to undertake to settle 
the species and synonymy of the genus Botrychium, as may be 
inferred from the different views of authors on the subject ; for, 
_while Pres], in 1845, in his Tent. Pteridograph. Suppl., enume- 
rates seventeen distinct, and Moore, in his ‘ Index Filicum,’ in 
1860, reduces them to thirteen,—yet gives two additional ones,— 
Dr. Hooker, in his Fl. Nov. Zelandiz, considers it a genus “ of 
few, perhaps only two, species.” The truth perhaps lies between 
these different views, and in my opinion much nearer to the view 
of the last than the two first-mentioned authors. The present 
species is one of the most distinct, and yet among the least 
OCTOBER Ist, 1862. 
