CL. XXIV.] 36. BLECHNUM BOREALE. 



449 



Polypodium angustifolium folio vario, Tourn. Hist* (les 

 Plantes aux Envir. de Paris^ p. 519. Inst. 540. 



Spicant Tragi et Germanorum, Rupp. len. ed. Hall, 346. 



Acrostichum Osmunda, Linn. Sp. PI. 1522. 



Osmuda spicant, Linn. Fl. Suec. n. 936. Fl. Dan. 99. 

 Bolt. Fil. t. 6. Gouan Fl. Monsp. 439. Light/. Scot. 2. 

 654. 



Struthiopteris, Llall. Hist. n. 1687. BoJim. Fl. Lips., 296. 

 Str. Spicant, Scop. Cam, n. 1258. Weis^ Crypt. Gott. 287. 

 Acrostichum Spicant, Vill. Delph. 4. 838. 

 Acr. nemorale, Lam. Enc. 1. 35. 



Bleclmum Spicant, Roth. Germ, 3. 44. De Cand. Fl. Franc. 

 2. 551. 



Onoclea Spicant, Hofm. Germ. 2. 11. Liljihl. Fl. Suec. 385. 

 Blechnum boreale, Sw. Syn. Fil. 115. Eng. Bot, 1159. 

 Schh. Fil. t. 110. 



Geographical distribution. 



This fern grows in Europe from 43° to 60°. The south of 

 France and Genoa (Bertol. Amoen. Ital. 212.) seem to be its 

 most southern stations; the south of Norway and Scot- 

 land its most northern. Whether it grows in Siberia, I know 

 not ; but Lewis found it on the north-west coast of America, 

 {Pursh^ Amer, Sept. 669.) 



(Ises. 



The power of healing wounds has been ascribed to this 

 plant. It is also mixed, in some places near Jena, with beer^ 

 to increase its salutary qualities, QRupp. Fl. Jen- p. 346.) 



II. Pteroidi^. 

 37. 



Botrychium lunaria, Sw, 



Mondkraut.— -French, Lunaire. — Engl. Moonwort. — Swed 

 Ldsgrds, 



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