﻿526 Underwood : The ternate Species of Botrychium 



" Osmunda ternata. O. scapo caulino solitario, fronde tripartita supradecomposita. 



id. Tab. 32. 



" Crescit circum Nagasaki, ubi semel legi. 



"Floret Octobri, Nobembri. 



u Radix fasciculata fibris numerosis, filiformibus, parum fibrillosis. 



M Stipes inferne simplex, pollicaris, mox divisus in duas partes frondem scilicet et 



scapum floriferum. 



"Frons solitaria, petiolata, supradecomposite ternata, glabra. Petiolus frondis 



compressiusculus, digitalis, inferne triternatus, nudus, superne frondosus, bipinnatus. 



Pinnae et pinnulae alternae, incisae, tenuissime serratae. 



* ' Scapus e basi petioli frondis, teretiusculus, striatus, erectus, nudus, glaber, fronde 

 duplo longior, apice cernuus, floriferus. 



"Florum spica ramosa ; Spiculae alternae antheris globosis. 



" Conf. O. Virginica, Plum. Filic. p. 136, tab. 159." 



The figure that accompanies this description very clearly repre- 

 sents -a plant that is common in collections from Nagasaki and 

 vicinity, but by no means includes all the species that have been 

 discovered in Japan and distributed as Botrychium ternatum. By 

 some oversight, or seeming lack of space, Thunberg's artist has 

 drawn the figure with only two branches to the sterile segment, 

 but from the description we must interpret this as an error, as 

 pointed out by Kunze * many years ago. 



Specimens of genuine Botrychium ternatum are to be seen in 

 the Kew Herbarium from Japan, collected by Maximowicz, Old- 

 ham (two sheets), Pere Faurie and Maries ; from China (Keio 

 Kiang) Dr. Sherer ; from India (northwest) collected by Fal- 

 coner, (Khasya) Griffith, (Sikkim) C. B. Clarke. In Herb. D. C. 

 Eaton is a Japanese specimen from Nagasaki, Oldham, which is 

 curiously enough placed in the cover with Eaton's " Var. australe" 

 another instance of a type being interpreted as a variety of itself! 

 In Herb. Gray there are three sheets of true B. ternatum from 

 Japan, one collected "Nov. 1889," one collected by Maximowicz, 

 and one by Oldham, the last also mounted with a sterile leaf of the 

 species mentioned below as B. Japonicum (Prantl). In the Herb. 

 Mus. Paris, there is one specimen from India (Voy, Jacquiminot) ; 

 four from Japan (Oldham; Savatier, n. 161 1; and two " 

 Franchet"); and two from China (M. Simon n. 16, and Perny). 

 In the Berlin collection are some sixteen sheets from Japan, most 

 of them typical, but a few somewhat smaller as are also some in 



*Bot. Zeit. 6: 491. 1848. 



