APPENDIX E. Photocopies of Botrychium specimens with labels. 



All determinations are those of the collectors. These 

 are tentative rather than authoritative, except for B. 

 paradoxum, which is easily distinguished from all other 

 species. Originally, all plants with trophophores were 

 considered to be B. lunaria. However, after consultation with 

 M. Windham and W. Wagner, this position was reconsidered. 

 Wagner and Wagner (1993) state that B. lunaria is extremely 

 uniform morphologically, with overlapping pinnae, unlike most 

 of our specimens. Windham identified my collection # 5078a as 

 B. minganense , but was puzzled by other specimens with 

 morphology seemingly intermediate between B. minganense and B. 

 lunaria. These "intermediate" forms key out to B. crenulatum 

 in Wagner and Wagner (1993) , however, I have not seen pictures 

 or verified specimens of this species; W. Wagner (pers. 

 commun.) did, however, suggest that slide 20 (Appendix F) 

 might be B. crenulatum. Windham observed spores of some of 

 our collections, including the oddities. He found that the 

 spores of my collection # 5078b were unusually small, but 

 regular, indicating that these are probably viable spores with 

 a low number of chromosomes. The spores of Shelly' s 

 collection # 1822, in contrast, were larger; the plant on the 

 left has regular spores, but the plant on the right has 

 misshapen spores, indicating that it is probably a sterile 

 hybrid. I welcome comments on any of these determinations. 

 The first set of specimens will be deposited at MONT. 



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