2,6 BOTRYCHTUM TERNATUM. TERNATE GRAPE-FERN. 



the world. Our artist has taken his drawing at this particular 

 season, and the pretty tints the lithographer has faithfully repro- 

 duced. In some one of the numerous forms which it loves to 

 assume, the species is found over the greater part of the world, 

 and is as common in Japan as here ; but whether it carries this 

 change of coloring with it in its migration is not recorded. This 

 very change of form is credited to "climatic peculiarities" by 

 Mr. John Smith in his " Historia Filicum," but though the various 

 forms are found more or less localized in the different parts of 

 the world wherever the species is found, the rigid demands of 

 modern science for explanation of terms and an accurate appli- 

 cation of their meaning, will render "climatic peculiarities" as 

 litde more than a suggestion. 



Explanation of the Plate. — i, 2. Stalks of two varieties. 3. Upper and fertile portion 

 of the stem. 4. Magnified capsules, showing transverse openings. 



