310 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
Subkingdom PTERIDOPHYTA. Fernlike plants. 
Order FILICALES. Ferns proper. 
OPHIOGLOSSACEAE. Adder’s-tongue Family. 
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OPHIOGLOSSUM L. Sp. Pl. 2: 1062. 1753. ADDER’S-TONGUE. 
About twenty-five species, mostly of temperate zones. 
Ophioglossum crotalophoroides Walt. Fl. Car. 256. 1788. 
BULBOUS-ROOTED ADDER’S-TONGUE. 
Ophioglossum bulbosum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:276. 1803. 
O. vulgatum var. crotalophoroides Eaton, in Chap. 11.599. 1860. 
Eaton, Ferns N. A. 2: 265, t.85, f. 5-7. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:568. Under- 
wood, Native Ferns, 128. 
SoutH AMERICA. CHILE. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. South Carolina to Florida and Texas. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region, Coast plain. Exposed grassy banks. Lee County, 
Auburn, 460 feet (Underwood § Earle); Metamorphic hills. Mobile County, sandy 
borders of fields, pastures. March; not rare in the Coast plain. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Ophioglossum pusillum Nutt. Gen. 2:248. 1818. Dwarr ADDER’S-TONGUE, 
Ophioglossum nudicaule Sturm in Mart. Fl. Bras. fase. 23:144. 1884. In part. 
Not L. f. . 
O. tenerum Mett. fide Prantl in Mart. 1. ¢. 322, ¢.8, f.23. 1884. 
O. vulgatum var. nudicaule, Eaton in Chap. F1.599. 1860. 
Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 637. Eaton, Ferns N. A, 2:267, 4. 81, f. 4. Underwood, Native 
Ferns, 129. 
CuBaA, MEXICO TO BRAZIL. : 
Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to Mississippi and Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Low grassy banks in sandy soil. Mobile County, Decem- 
ber, 1860. Very scarce. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. On the margins of ponds, in South Carolina.” 
BOTRYCHIUM &w. Schrad. Journ. Bot. 2:8. 1800. GrargE Fern. 
Thirty species, temperate regions. North America, 15 species. 
Botrychium obliquum Milde, Mon. Botrych. Nov. Acta. Leop. Car. 20:109. 1858. 
OBLIQUE GRAPE FERN. 
Botrychium ternatum obliquum Muhl.; Willd. Sp. Pl. 5:63. 1810. 
Gray, Man. ed.6, 694. Eaton, Ferns N. A. 1: 150. 
MEXIco. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Nova Scotia and Ontario, west to the Rocky 
Mountains; New England south to New Jersey, Florida, Louisiana, and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. Woods and pastures. Cullman 
mea 800 feet shady woods. Mobile County, open pastures. October; not fre- 
quent. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Pensylvania.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Botrychium biternatum (Lam.) Underwood, Bot. Gaz. 22: 407, pl. 21. 1896. 
Osmunda biternata Lam. Encycl. 4:650. 1797. 
Botrypus lunaroides Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 274. 1803. 
Botrychium lunaroides Sw. Syn. Fil.172. 1806. Not Gray, Man., ete. 
R, ternatum var. lunaroides D, C, Futon, Ferns N. A. 1: 148, t. 20, f.3. 1879. 
Eaton, Ferns N. A. I. ¢. 
Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Grassy banks and declivities. Mobile County. March; 
not frequent. : 
Type locality: ‘‘M. Michaut a découvert cette espece dans la Caroline méridionale,” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
