Botrychium virginianum was according to Hoffman 
[7th Ann. Rep. Bur. Ethn. 201. 1go1.] used by the 
medicine men of the Ojibwa Indians in the healing of 
cuts. 2B. obliguum may have had a similar use among 
the aborigines. In Pre-Linnean times B. laxzaria was 
used in a like manner according to AZa¢thioli [Epit. 643. 
1586.] who speaks of it as follows: Vudlneraria est 
- planta, efficax’g; vulneribus recentibus glutinandis. 
3. LYGODIUM Swartz, 1801. 
LVomen a dvy08:s flextlis, tortuosus. Sw. in Schrad. 
Journ. Bot. 1800: pt. 2. 106. ; 
_ Trailing plants. Rootstock slender, creeping. Lower 
pinnae of the leaf sterile; the upper ones fertile. Spore- 
cases borne in a double row on the linear lobes of the 
pinnules. 
1. L. palmatum (Bernh.) Sw. ded 
Gisopter’s palmata Bernh. Schrad.}.c. 129. 
Lygodium palmatum Sw. 1806. Syn. Fil. 154. 
LAC. Vom aes Nina. Ley att am Guay, 
Man. 692. Underw. in ill. Fl. 1:47; Nat. Ferns 
75; in Britt. Man. 6. Clute, Perns 280. Waters, 
Ferns 292. 
CiimBING FERN. 
Lower pinnae dichotomously forked; pinnules 4--6- 
palmatifid, lobes oblong, obtuse; fertile pinnae several 
times forked, ultimate divisions palmatifid. 
In moist woods, rare. July-October. 
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