CROUP II FE R TILE FRONDS PARTIALLY LEAF-LIKE, 

 FERTILE PORTION UNLIKE REST OF FROND 



locks wherewith dwelling-houses are made fast, if 

 it be put into the keyhole ; as also that it will loosen 

 . . . shoes from those horses' feet that go on the 

 places where it grows." 



It is to the Moonwort that Withers alludes in the 

 following lines : 



" There is an herb, some say, whose vertue's such 

 It in the pasture, only with a touch 

 Unshoes the new-shod steed." 



13. MATRICARY GRAPE FERN 



Botrychium matricaricefolium 



Nova Scotia to New Jersey, in woods and wet meadows. Two 

 inches to one foot high. 



Sterile portion. Once or twice divided, sometimes very fleshy, 

 growing high up on the stem. 



Fertile portion. With several branched pinnae. 



This plant is found, often in the companionship of 

 B. Virginianum, in woods and wet meadows, not 

 farther south than New Jersey. It fruits in summer. 



14. LANCE-LEAVED GRAPE FERN 



Botrychium lanceolatum 



Nova Scotia to New Jersey, in woods and meadows. Two to 

 nine inches high. 



Sterile portion. Triangular, twice-pinnatifid, with somewhat 

 lance-shaped segments, hardly fleshy, set close to the top of the 

 common stalk. 



Fertile portion. Branching. 



Like the Matricary Grape Fern, this plant is 

 found in the woods and wet meadows from Nova 

 Scotia to New Jersey. It fruits also in summer. 



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