Grape Fkrn. 
Plants 0.5-2 dm. high or more ; the sterile segment ve- 
ry variable, borne above the middle of the petiole, the 
ultimate divisions lobed or entire ; sporophyll 2-pinnati- 
fid, the lowest branches nearly equalling the central one. 
In rich woods. June. 
At Towson, Md., Waters-^ near Washington, Airs. Steele. 
Ophloglossum Mariana lingua dentata [Pluk. Phil. 
Trans. 1698. 398] collected by the Rev. Mr. H. Jones in 
Maryland is without doubt the small form of O, vulga- 
tum found occasionally in damp woods. 
Botrychittm virginianum was according to Hoffman 
[yth Ann. Rep. Bur. Ethn. 1891. 201] used by the me- 
decine men of the Ojibwa Indians in the healing of cuts. 
B , obliquum may have had a similar use among the 
aborigines. The latter is without doubt our most variable 
species. Mr, Painter has found abnormal forms near 
Washington ; Mr, Maxo7t has observed a 2 -pinnate form 
along with typical plants on Salt Pond Mountain, Va. 
In Pre-Linnean times Botrychium lunaria was used 
in a like manner. Matthioli [Epit. 643. 1586] speaks of 
it as follows ; Vulneraria est pla72ta^ efficax^q; vulneri- 
bus recentibus glutiitandis , 
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