292 THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. [Aug. 



Mr. Eaton has sent me beautiful specimens from sandy swamps 

 in Ocean County, New Jersey.] 



Nat, Orel OPHIOGLOSSACE^. 



BOTRYCHIUM. 



B. Virginiciim, Swartz. — Barren brancli sessile, attached above 

 the middle of the main stem, thin, delicate, veiny, tripinnate, lobes 

 of the pinnules deeply incised ; fertile branch bi- or slightly tri- 

 pinnate. Very variable in size, usually a foot or more in height, 

 but sometimes only a few inches. Botrychiuni Virginicum, Swartz, 

 A. Gray, J. Sm. B. Virginianum^ Schk, Osmunda Virg'mica^ 

 Linn. Sp. PI. Botrypus Virginicus, Michx. — Not uncommon in 

 the woods about Kingston and the surrounding country, as near 

 Odessa, in Hinchinbrook, &c. ; Delta ; Toronto ; Sulj)hur Spring, 

 Hamilton, Judge Logic ; Prescott, in woods, common, B. Billings 

 jun. ; Nicolet, Montreal, Wolfe Island and Chippawa, P. W. Mac- 

 lagan, M.D. ; Belleville, rich woods, very common, J. Macoun; 

 Bamsay, Bev. J. K. M'Morine, M.A. ; Biver Marsouin, St. Law- 

 rence Gulf, also opposite Grand Island, Lake Superior, B. Bell, 

 jun., C.E. ; Biviere Bouge, and De Salaberry, west line, W. S. 

 M. D'Urban; Montreal, Osnabruck, and Prescott Junction, Bev. 

 E. M. Epstein; Hill Portage above Oxford House, Governor 

 McTavish; Newfoundland, Miss Brenton, in Fl. Bor. Amer. ; Lake 

 Huron to Saskatchewan, Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. ; Gaspe, John Bell, 

 B.A. ; Stanfold, Abbe Provancher; Grenville, C. E., J. Bell; 

 London, W. Saunders. 



p. gracile. — Yery small (5 or 6 inches high), ferti'e branch 

 less divided. B. gracile, Pursh. Hill Portage, above Oxford 

 House, Governor McTavish. 



y. simjjlex. — Barren branch oblong, pinnatifid, the lobes ovate, 

 incised, veiny. B. simjylex, Hitchcock. Grenville, C. E., John 

 Bell, B.A. 



B. lunar ioides, Swartz. — Barren branch long-stalked, arising 

 from near the base of the main stem, thick and leathery, bipinnate, 

 the pinnules sliuhtly crenate ; fertile branch bipinnate. Boot of 

 long thick tuber-like fibres. Botrycliium limarioides, Swartz, Gray, 

 B./umar ioides, Willd., Provancher. Botrypus lunar ioides, Michx, 

 Gananoque Lake, May 1861 ; Plains near Castleton, and woods 

 near the Hop Garden, Belleville, rare, J. Macoun ; Three Bivers, 

 C.E., P. W. Maclagan, M.D., ; Waste places west from Prescott 



