340 BOTANY. 



Botrychiiiin ternatnm, 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. Ill; Syn. Fil. p. 172. Kunze, Die Farrnk. ii, p. 51, t. 221. 

 Milde, Fil. Eur. et Atl. p. 199. Osmunda ternata, Thunberg, Flora Japonica, 

 p. 329, t. 32. BotrycMum lunarioides, Swartz. B. fumarioides, Willdenow. 

 B. australe, R. Brown. B. decompositum, Martens & Galeotti, Fil. Mex. p. 

 15, t. 1. 



Plumas Co., California, very 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 Columhia, Dr. Lyall. 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. 



ISotryckium Virgimianum, Swartz. 



Wet Mountain Valley, Colorado, Srandegee. 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. Linnaeus. 

 Ophioglossum vulgatum, Linn. 



Sanoita Valley, Arizona, Dr. Roihroek. Texas, IAndhdmer, Wright. Eastern North America, Europe, 

 Asia, Africa, Australia, etc. Reported from Unalashka, but apparently not yet found in Oregon or 

 California. 



