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iliuc sporangiferis, paniculis binis aut triparlitis, pinnis inciso-crenatis etc. — Specimina groen- 

 landica et unalaschcensia brevitate ramorum panicuiae excellunt. 



4. B. RUTACEUM Sw. syn. 171 (excl. syn. Schrank). Willd. spec. V. 62. Schk. fil. 157. t. 

 155. f. b. — B. Lunaria var. rutacea Link fii. hort. berdl. 17. — Osmunda Lunaria Flor. 

 dan. t. 18. f. 3. — Osmunda lanceolata Gmel. nov. com. pelrop. XII. 516. t. 11. f. 2. — 

 Lunaria racemosa minor matricariae folio Breyn. cent. 18i. t. 94. Moris. hist. III. 594. sect. 

 14. t. 5. f. 3. _ 



Habitat in pascuis sylvaticis apricis Norvegiae (Lindblom), Ingriae ad Petropolim 

 (Gmelin), Daniae (Oeder), Borussiae ad Berolinum ( Willdenow), Saxoniae ad Dresdam 

 (Schkuhr), Bohemiae ad S. Benignam et Woleschna (C. Presl). 



Differt facile a priore stipite crassiore, fronde ovata, pinnis infimis oblongo-Ianceo- 

 latis pinnatifidis, superioribus obovatis incisis. Loca natalia tantum certa indicata sunt, cum 

 haec species a plurimis auctoribus aut cum anlecedente aut cum insequente confunditur. 



5. B, malricarioides Willd. spec. V. 62. Kaulf. enum. 27, Grev. et Hook. enum. fil. 

 in Hook. bot. misc. III. 221. B. Matricariae Spr. syst. IV. 23. — B. rutaceum Schk. fil. 

 t. 155 (figura sinistra). — Osmunda Matricariae Schrank fl. bav. II. 419. Sturm. fl. germ. 11. 

 fasc. 6. — Osmunda Lunaria Flor. dan. t. 18. fig. media. — Lunaria racemosa multifido folib 

 Breyn. cent. 184. t. 95. Moris. hist. III. 595. sect. 14. t. 5. f. 26. — Lunaria minor ramosa 

 Clus. hist. 119 (slerile). 



Habitat in pratis et pascuis sylvaticis humidiusculis Europae a Lapponia Umensi 

 (Wickstroem), Norvegia (Oeder, Lindblom) usque in montes Pyrenaeos (Lapeyrouse, Can- 

 dolle), in America boreali ad Saskatchawan in sinu Hudsonis (Drummond) , in Nova Terra 

 (Morrison). 



Variat fronde unica - duabus plus minus stipitata, fronde subradicali, pedunculo 

 paniculae tum elongato. 



6. B. OBLiQUUM Miihlenberg in Willd, spec. V. 63. Grev. et Hook. enum. fil. in Hook. 

 bot. niisc. III. 222. Schlecht. Linnaea, V. 621 (partim). — B. lunarioides Schk. fil. 158. t. 

 157. — B. cuneatum Desv. prod. fil. in ann. soc. lin. paris. VI. 195. 



Habitat in sylvis lucidis Americae borealis: in sinu Hudsonis prope York Factory et 

 in »the Heiglit ofLand» in Rocky Mountains (Drummond), in Newfoundland (Morrison), in Pen- 

 sylvania (Miihlenberg), in insula fluvii Lecha prope Philadelphiam (Moser herb. bor. amer. 

 un. itin,), a Pensylvania ad Virginiam (Pursh) , in Carolina auslrali (EUiot), ad fluvium Missi- 

 sippi (Teinturier), in Louisiana (A. Gray), in Serro Colorado Mexici (Schiede), prope Huaja* 

 lote Mexici (C. Ehrenberg). 



7. B. DECOMPOsiTUM 3Iartens et Galeotti fil. mex. in nouv. mem. acad, Brux. XV. 15. 

 t. 1. — B, obliquum Schlecht. Linnaea, V. 621 (partim, fide speciminis in Herb. reg. 

 gen, berol.). 



Habitat in humidis et umbrosis .sylvarum montis Pic d'Orizaba Mexici, altit. 5000 usque 

 6000 ped. (Galeotti), in Serro colorado Mexici (Schiede). 



