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in feveral rows, in imitation o f fpikes, the whole forming a handfomc
bunch pendent on one fide, at firft of a very pale grecniili white, brown
■when ripe ; and the feeds, when difchargcd, appear as i f covered with a
brown duft.
There is a variety with compound or branched leaves, fe e Ger. Em.
406. f ig . I .
Ofmunda Lunaria grows' amongft grafs in cold meadows and paftures.
In paftures about Cold Edge, in Mixendcn ; in a fmall croft clofe by
the houfe at Ball-Green, Sowerby ; in the fields near Holy-Green,
Northowram ; and fome other places in the neighbourhood of Halifax.
The plant is in k s greateft perfedion the firft or fecond week in July.
On the ninth day o f June 1-785, I gathered on the top of an high bank
of pafture ground, belonging to Shibden-Hall, near Halifax, a variety of
Ofmunda Lunaria, with leaves ihaped like a lady’ s fan when fully expanded,
divided by narrow fedions running almoft down to the bafe into four or
£ve lobes, which .are deeply crenatcd at their extremities.
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