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Canada to Mexico, in the West Indies, Guatemala, the 
United States of Colombia, and on the Organ Mountains 
of Brazil, also in Japan, Mantchooria and the Amur 
country; the second is found in Canada, Newfoundland, 
throughout the United States, and on the Himalayas to 
the height of ten thousand feet; the third is accredited 
to Sweden, Russia, Siberia, Japan, the Azores Islands, 
the Barbary States, the Himalayas, Bombay, Cochin 
China, Hong Kong, Zambesi-land, Natal, Cape Colony, 
and from Canada to Rio Janeiro; and yet the three 
species may often all be found here in a space less than 
ten feet square. The other three species of osmunda 
are all found on the eastern side of Asia. 
We have representatives of at least a dozen other 
genera, all of which are crowding forward in June. One 
of our plants, akin to the ferns, and formerly counted 
with them, is the moonwort (Botrychium Virginianum, 
Swartz). This has a very remarkable geographical 
range. In Europe it is found only in Norway (jide 
Macmillan); but it abounds in the United States, on 
the mountains in Mexico, on the Raklang Pass of the 
Himalayas, and is abundant on the mountains of Aus- 
tralia and New Zealand, where it is boiled and eaten by 
the natives. The distribution of this plant over such 
widely-separated areas is a very puzzling problem. 
There are some humbler plants which are no less 
interesting though they may be considered as weeds. 
