ADDER'S-TONGUE FAMIIA'. 

 2. Botrychium Lunaria ( L. i S\v. Moomve.r 3.) 



OsniHnita Luna fin \.. Sp. IM. ic*,| 

 Botrychium /. ////,/ Su S. ln.,,1 J,,,;: 







Plant very fleshy, a'-i2' hi K h. Sterile portion 

 usually sessile, borne at or above the middle of the 

 stem, pinnate with 2-8 pairs of lunate or fan shaped 

 lobes which vary from crenatc to entire and arc 

 close and imbricated or distant; fertile porti. 

 pinnate, often dense, i'-2' long, often about the 

 height of the sterile ; bud for the following yew glab- 

 rous, enclosed in the base of the stem ; apex only of 

 the sterile portion bent over the nearly straight 

 portion in vernation. 



Newfoundland to Alaska, -..nth t.. C..IHI.-. r.< ut . mtrml 



New York, Michigan. British Columbia Rocky 



Mountains to Colorado, mostly in tiel-l north- 

 ern Europe and Asia. June July. 



3. Botrychium matricariaefolium A. Br. 



Matricary Grape-fern. (Fig. 4. > 



Botrychium matricariaefolium A. Br. in Doell Rhein 

 Fl. 24. 1843. 



Plant 2 / -i2 / high, often very fleshy. Sterile 

 portion borne above the middle of the stem, short- 

 stalked, ovate or oblong, i-2-pinnatifid or rarely 

 2-pinnate, with obtuse divisions and narrow toothed 

 segments ; midveins disappearing by continued 

 branching; fertile portion 2-3-pinnate, often mm h 

 branched ; spores tuberculate ; bud for the follow- 

 ing year glabrous, enclosed in the base of the stem : 

 apex of both sterile and fertile portions turned 

 down in vernation. 



In grassy woods and swamps, Nova Scotia to New 

 Jersey, west to Ohio. Also in Washington and in Ku- 

 rope. May-June. 



4. Botrychium ternatum (Thunb.) Sw. Ternate 





OSHI Hilda ternata Thunb. 1-1. Jap. 339. 1784. 

 Botrychium ternututn Sw. Sehrad. Jmtrn 11.. t j.tn. iftxx 



Plant 4 / -i6 / high, very fleshy, often slightly pubes- 

 cent. Sterile portion long-stalked from near the base 

 of the stem, broadly triangular, tcrnate. variously 

 compound, the divisions stalked ; ultimate segments 

 varying from round- reniform to ovmtc-lancroUte. 

 their margins entire or finely incised ; bud for the 

 following year pilose, enclosed in the base 

 apex of both portions bent down with a slight inwanl 

 curve in vernation. 



In moist meadow-. \\ ..... !>. union hill- 

 to Florida, wi-st to California. 

 Asia and Australia. Tlu- sti-nlc portion is per 

 through the winter. St-pt 



Varies pn-atly ; tin- law forms are known j*vt 

 Irale. smaller forms with obliquely Uncw 

 as var obliqtiunt, similar forms with 

 ments as var. dissfduni, and small forms will 

 reniform segments as var. lunarioidts. 



