Si/nojDsis of Canadian Ferns and Filicoid Plants. 283 



Rev. J. K. M'Morine, M A. ; St Joy AYoods, on the river shore, near 

 Gatineau Mills, D. M'Gillivraj, M.D. ; Newfoundland, Miss Brenton, in 

 Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. ; Prescutt, common, B. Billings, jr. ; Nieolet, M. 

 L'Abbe Provancher ; L'Orignal, J. Bell; near London, W. Saunders. 



0. Claytoniana, Linn. — Frond narrowly lanceolate, pinnate ; piniice 

 lanceolate, about three pairs of pinnae near or below the middle of the 

 frond contracted and fertile ; sporangia brown, with green spores. This 

 species, when fresh, has a strong odour, resembling that of rhubarb (Pie- 

 plant) stalks. 0. Claytoniana, Linn., Gray, J. Sm. 0. interriipta, 

 Michaux. — Between Kingston and Kingston Mills, in wet swampy 

 places by the roadside ; Little Cataraqui Creek ; Waterloo ; banks of 

 the Humber, near Toronto; Princes Island, Hamilton, Judge Logie ; 

 Ramsay, Rev. J. K. M'Morine, M.A. ; Ke-we-naw Point, in wet soil, 

 R. Bell, jr. ; Belleville, low rich grounds, not rare, J. Macoun; Pres- 

 cott. common, B. Billings, jr. ; Round Lake, W. S. M. D'Urban ; Lake 

 Settlement, and on the river shore near Gatineau Mills, D. M'Gillivray, 

 M.D.; Newfoundland, Miss Brenton, in Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. ; Osnabruck 

 and Prescott Junction, Rev. Dr Epstein ; on Judge Malloch's farm and 

 elsewhere about Brockville ; Dartmouth River, Gaspe, John Bell, B.A. ; 

 St Ferreol, M L'Abbe Provancher. Abundant on uncleared land along 

 the Bedford Road, where the dried fronds are used by the farmers as 

 winter fodder for sheep. Augmentation of Grenville, C. E., J. Bell, 

 B.A. ; near Komoka, C.W., W. Saunders. This fern is common also 

 in the Northern States. I have a lax form, with long stipes and remark- 

 ably short somewhat triangular pinnae, from Schooley's Mountains. 



SCHTZ.EA. 



[S. pusilla, Pursh. — Newfoundland, De la Pylaie, I have no further 

 information respecting its occurrence in British America. Professor A. 

 Gray indicates its distribution in the United States thus : — " Low 

 grounds, pine barrens of New Jersey, rare," which is not at all favour- 

 able to its being found in Newfoundland or Canada. Mr Eaton has 

 sent me beautiful specimens from sandy swamps in Ocean County, New 

 Jersey.] 



Nat. Ord. OPHIOGLOSSACE^. 



BOTHYCHIUM. 



B. virginicum, Swartz. — Barren branch sessile, attached above the 

 middle of the main stem, thin, delicate, veiny, tripinnate, lobes of the 

 pinnules deeply incised ; fertile branch bi- or slightly tri pinnate. Very 

 variable in size, usually a foot or more in height, but sometimes only a 

 few inches. Botrychium virginicum, Swartz, A. Gray, J. Sm. B. 

 virginianum, Schk. Osmunda virgimca, Linn. Sp. PI. Botrypus vir- 

 ginicus, Michx. — Not uncommon in the woods about Kingston and the 

 surrounding country, as near Odessa, in Hinchinbrook, &c. ; Delta ; 

 Toronto; Sulphur Spring, Hamilton, Judge Logie ; Prescott, in -vvoods, 

 common, B. Billings, jr. ; Nicolet, Montreal, Wolfe Island and Chippawa, 

 P. W. Maclagan, M.D. ; Belleville, rich woods, very common, J. Macoun ; 

 Ramsay, Rev. J. K. M'Morine, M.A. ; River Marcouin, St Lawrence 



