(6) Ternate Grape Fern
Botrýchium Ternàtum, Var. Intermèdium
Botrýchium Oblìquum, Var. Intermèdium
Leaf more divided than in oblìquum and the numerous segments not so long and pointed, but large, fleshy, ovate or obovate (including var. austràle), crenulate, and more or less toothed.
Sandy soil, pastures and open woods. More northerly in its range—New England and New York. Var. rutaefòlium. More slender, rarely over six or seven inches high; sterile segment about two inches broad, its divisions few, broadly ovate, the lowest sublunate. The first variety passes insensibly into the second.