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BOTRYC PIIUM M A T R IC A R I.T FO L IU M , A l. B r a u n .
Matricary Grape-Fern.
B o t r y c h iu m m a t r ic a r ih i f o l iu m : — Plant two to twelve
inches high, moderately fleshy; sterile segment borne high up on
the common stalk, distinctly petioled or rarely sessile, membranaceous,
oblong, ovate, or even deltoid in outline, in simpler forms
pinnately divided or lobed into a few nearly equal oblong or ovate
or rounded entire or crenated obtuse lobes, but in larger forms
twice pinnatifid, the primary divisions several pairs, the lowest
ones largest, and all pinnatifid into oblong-ovate toothed and
obtuse lobes ; midvein of the lobes usually distinct, and bearing
on each side forking veinlets; fertile segment short-stalked, varying
from a simple spike to an ample panicle of racemed sporangia.
Botrychitcm mairicaricefdM'>t, A l . B r a u n , in Doell, Rheinischc Flora, p. 24
(18 4 3 ). Koci-i, Syn. FI. Germ., ed. ii,, p. 972 ; ed. iii., p. 729.—
M il d e , N ov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur., xxvi., ii., p. 679, t. 5 1 , figs.
18 2 -18 8 , t. 52, figs. 18 9 -19 6 , p. 761, t. 55, figs. 5-8 ; Fil. Eur. ei
Atlant., p. 195 ; Botr. Monogr., p. 123, t. 8, fig. 2, t. 9, figs. 7, 17
— E . H u nt, in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, iii., p. 33
— D a v en po r t , Notes on Botr. simplex, p. 17, t. 2, figs. 7, 8, 10 - 1 2
30, 32-43 ; and in Bull. Torr. Club, vi., p. 196, etc., t. i, fig. 6.
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