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plant was 278 inches; of the other 312 inches. The roots 
were pressed and will be mounted with the plants al- 
though every one knows the roots of the botrychia are 
very brittle and difficult of preservation when dried. 
In “ The Fern Flora of Ohio” (Fern Bulletin, Jan. 1907) 
mention was made of the reproduction of the botrychia 
in some me cases at least by a short thick root-stock. Since 
that time I have found two mature fruiting fronds of 
Botrychium ramosum (Roth.) Aschers., attached to the 
same rootstock as shown in Plate I. ‘Also a specimen 
aS of Botrychium obliquum Muhl. having two sterile fronds 
. and a bud for a third, all on the same rootstock, was ~ 
found Le Jost fall at paren a “a Pa. 3 
ees, paewene ‘the a typi d dissectum a ypical | 
 obliquum; but when one finds, as 5 any one aio. cares to 
- look for it may find, the typical forms of obliquum and 
2  dissectum with a complete set of intermediate forms 
and all growing within a few feet of each other, thenthe _ 
- differences do not seem so striking. I have never seen 
