340 + BOTANY. 
Botrychium ternatum, Swartz. 
Frond fleshy, the common stalk very short; sterile segment petioled, 
broadly pentagonal or triangular, ternate; the three primary divisions also 
petioled, as broad as long, pinnately decompound; ultimate divisions vary- 
ing from round-reniform to triangular-lanceolate, entire or variously toothed 
and incised ; fertile segment long-stalked, 2—4-pinnate.—Schraders Journal, 
1800, p. 111; Syn. Fil. p. 172. Kunze, Die Farrnk. ii, p. 51, t. 221. 
Milde, Fil. Eur. et Atl. p. 199. Osmunda ternata, Thunberg, Flora J aponica, 
p- 329, t. 32. Botrychium lunarioides, Swartz. LB. fumarioides, Willdenow. 
B. australe, R. Brown., B. decompositum, Martens & Galeotti, Fil. Mex. p. 
15, t. 1. 
Plumas Co., California, Mer large specimens, Mrs. Pulsifer Ames and Mrs. R. M. Austin. Mt. 
Rainier, etc., Washington Territory, Brackenridge. Geyser Springs, Yellowstone Park, Dr. Parry. Cas- 
cade Mts., British Columbia, ee “Teall This species in one form or another occurs in America from 
Nutka Sound to New Granada, is rare and dwarfed in Europe, appears again in a large form in Eastern 
Asia, and reappears in Australia and New Zealand. Dr. Milde’s arrangement of the various forms of the 
species in partly geographical and partly natural sections is unsuitable for a systematic work, but I will 
not at present attempt a new arrangement. Mrs. Ames’s and Mrs. Austin’s fine specimens accord best 
with the figure of Martens and Galeotti above referred to. Mrs. Austin also sends smaller specimens, but 
otherwise of the same general character 
Botrychium Virginianum, Swartz. 
Wet Mountain Valley, Colorado, Brandegee. Meadow lands on the Mt. Rainier range, Washington 
Territory, Brackenridge. North America to Brazil. Also in parts of Europe and Asia and in Japan. 
II. OPHIOGLOSSUM. Linneus. 
of emia vulgatum, Linn. 
Sanoita Valley, Arizona, Dr. Rothrock. Texas, Lindheimer, Wright. Eastern North America, Europe, 
Asia, Acie, Australia, ete. Reported from Unalashka, but apparently not yet found in Oregon or 
California. 
