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(6) Ternate Grape Fern 

 Botrychium ternatum, ^'a^. intermediiuii 

 Botri/Cliium obFiquum, var. intermedium 



Leaf more di\ided than in obliqinim and the numerous 

 segments not so long and pointed, but large, fleshy, ovate 

 or obovate (including xnr. austride), crenulate, and more 

 or less toothed. 



Sandy soil, pastures and open woods. More northerly 

 in its range — New England and New York. Var. 

 Tutaefblium. More slender, rarely over six or se^-en inches 

 high; sterile segment about two inches broad, its divisions 

 few, broadly o\ate, the lowest sublunate. The first 

 variety j^asses insensibly into the .second. 



Ternate Grape Fern 



Botrychium tern at it tn 



var. intermedium 



(Reduced) 



Ternate Grape Fern 



Botryehiuni ternatum 



var. intermedium 



(Two stocks, reduced) 



