Prats 29. 
BOTRYCHIUM Virernianum, Sw. 
Hemlock-leaved Moonwort. 
Borrycuium Virginianum ;* stipes three inches to a foot and a half long; 
sterile frond shorter than the stipes, deltoid, subternate, tripinnate (lower 
primary pinnee often so distant from the pair next above as to appear like 
two lateral fronds) ; ultimate pinne varying much in size, oblong-lanceolate, 
deeply pinnatifid ; the segments lanceolate, irregularly more or less serrated 
or incised ; fertile frond long-pedunculate, arising from the base of the com- 
pressed rachis, or from various distances above the base ; raceme compound, 
subtripinnate; ultimate segments short, capsuliferous. 
Americanum ; peduncle of the fertile frond from near the base of the sterile one. 
Borrycuium Virginianum. Sw. in Schrad. Journ. 1800. Syn. Fil.p.171. Schk. 
Fil. p. 157. t. 156. Sm. in Rees’ Cycl. Suppl. Ledeb. Fl. Ross. v. 5. p. 506. 
Svensk Bot. t. 665. 
OsmuNDA Virginiana. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1579. 
Borrycaium Virginicum. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 5. p. 64. Hook. and Grev. En. 
Fil. Bot. Misc. v. 3. p. 233. Presi, Tent. Suppl. p. 46. Fries, Sum. Veg. 
p. 83. A. Gray, Man. Bot. United States Illustr. p. 602. Schlecht. in 
Linnea, v. 5. p. 621. 
Botrypus Virginicus. Mich. Fl. Bor. Am. v. 2..p. 274. 
Botrycatum gracile (small var.). Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. p. 656. 
Borrycuium brachystachys. Kze. in Linnea, v. 18. p. 305. 
Borrycuium cicutarium. Sw. Syn. Fil. p.171. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 5. p. 65. 
Hook and Grev. En. Fil. in Bot. Misc. v. 3. p. 223. Presi, Tent. Suppl. 
p. 46. 
OsmunDa cicutaria. Lam. Enc. Bot. v. 4. p. 650. 
Osmunpa Asphodeli radice. Plum. Fil. p. 136. ¢. 159. 
Indicum ; peduncle of the fertile frond from near the middle of the sterile frond. 
Borrycuivm languinosum. Wall. Cat.p. 48. Hook. and Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 19 
(small, and the peduncle inserted at the base of the sterile frond). Presi, 
Tent. Suppl. 46. Kze. in Linnea, p. 246. 
Has. North America: Canada (Sir J. £. Smith), and throughout the United 
States, to the extreme south, Texas, etc., Mexico, Dr. Coulter, n. 1716, 
W. Bates (sterile frond much resmbling that of B. daucifolium, Wall., and 
Hook. and Grev., but the peduncle inserted as in the American form). 
South America, Funck and Schlim,n.971; New Granada, Purdie; Ecuador, 
Hartweg, n. 1484; Quito, Jameson ; St. Domingo, Plumier ; Scandinavia 
(Herb. Nostr.), and said to be found in “ Russia, Austria, and Styria.” —Jn- 
dicum ; Sheopore and Nepal, Wallich ; and throughout Northern India and 
the Neil@herries, Wight, n. 31, Hooker fil. and Thomson, Major Madden 
(Simla, 5—8000 feet elev.). Khasya, Grifith. Ceylon, Gardner, n. 1181. 
Tsus-Sima, in the Gulf of Korea, Wilford, . 848. Japan?, Thunberg. 
* The original Linnean name is Virginianum, not Virginicum, as generally 
written. 
auGcust l1st,.1861. 
