TAD. CLXI. 
BOTRYCHIUM DAUCIFOLIUM. 
FILICES.—O»nurocrossrx. Br., Kaulf., Spreng. | SrAcuvorrEnipzs. Willd. 
Grzw. CHag.. BOTRYCHIUM, Sw. Capsule distinctz, in spica disticha composita, respectu 
cujus transversim quoad insertionem longitudinaliter dehiscens. Zr. 
BornvcniuM daucifolium ; scapo superne unifrondoso, fronde lato deltoidea ternata, foliolis petio- . 
latis bipinnatifidis, segmentis ovatis acutiusculis serratis, terminali acuminato, spicis compo- 
sitis bi-tripinnatis. 
Botrychium daucifolium. | J/'allich, Gatal. of Pl. in Mus. of E. I. C. n. 49. 
Has. Apud * Kumoon" India: Orientalis, ubi legit ID. Blnkworth ; CI. JF'allich communicavit. 
Hadix e fibris plurimis simplicibus vel parce ramosis, glabris: bulbo nullo. | 
Scapi solitarii vel 2 ex eadem radice, spithamzi ad pedalem simplices, erecti, crassitie penne anserinc, glabri, 
superne in frondem expansi. 
Frons palmaris et ultra, lato deltoidea, ternata. —Fol;iola petiolata, etiam. deltoidea, bipinnatifida, inferne etiam 
subbipinnata, versus apicem pinnatifido-sinuata. —JPnne, vel segmenta primaria, lanceolatz, lobis vel laci- 
niis fere ovatis acutis margine argute sed insequaliter serratis, costatis, nervosis, nervis obliquis dichotomis 
ad marginem attingentibus. — Kachis alata. 
Spica frondis longitudine, erecta, composita, bi-tripinnata, gracilis, pinnulis patentibus capsuliferis. 
Capsule sublaxe dispositze, globosse, sessiles, rufo-flavee, glabrse, demum transversim dehiscentes, bivalves. 
Semina pallide flavescentia, hyalina, subtrigona e granulis tribus composita. 
Fig. 1. Portio pinnm. f. 2. Portio spicee cum capsulis. f. 3. Semina:—magn. auct. 
This fine species of Botrychium is one again for which our collections are indebted to the libe- 
rality of the Honourable the East India Company. In the Catalogue of the East Indian Herba- 
rium, printed by Dr. Wallich, it is suggested that this species may probably be a variety of B. /anu- 
ginosum of Wall, figured at Tab. 69 of this work. It should be observed, that we now possess 
from the East India Company specimens of B. lanuginosum thrice the size of the specimen above 
figured, but even more deeply and irregularly incised. We know, however, how very liable the 
European and North American Jotrychia are to vary in the more or less deeply divided lacini; of 
the foliola; and the present may possibly be the perfect state of. D. lanuginosum. 
We possess also, from the southern states of North America, a Botrychium which we can scarcely 
distinguish from this but in its much smaller size. 
