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BO T R YCH IUM LU N A R IA , S w a r t z .
Moonwort.
B o t r y c h iu m L u n a r i a : — Plant smooth, fleshy, commonly
four to ten inches high ; sterile segment sessile near the middle
of the plant, oblong, rarely ovate, obtuse, pinnately cleft ; lobes or
pinnæ semi-lunar from a broadly cuneate base, the sides concave,
the outer margin rounded, entire or obscurely crenulate, rarely
incised; veins flabellately forking; fertile segment twice to thrice
pinnate.
Botrychium Lunaria, S w a r t z , in S c h ra d . Jo u r n . Bot., 18 0 0 , ii., p. n o ; S y n .
Fil., p. 17 1 . — Sci-iicui-iR, Krypt. Gew., pi 156, t. 15 4 .— W i l l d e now,
Sp. Pl., V., p. 6 1. — M oo re , Nat. Pr. Brit. Ferns, t. 5 1, A .—
H o o k e r , Flor. Bor. Am., ii., p. 26 5: Brit. Ferns, t. 48. — M il d e ,
Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur., xxvi., pars ii., p. 657, t. 47, 48 ; Fil.
Eur. et Atl., p. 19 2 ; Botr. Monogr., p. lo i. — E aton, in Gray’s
Manual, ed. v., p. 671.
Osmunda Lunaria, L in n æ u s , Sp. Pl., p. 15 19 .
H a b . — Dry elevated pastures and waste lands, from within the Arctic
Circle to Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada, New York, Lake Superior, and
the Rocky Mountains. Colorado, Dr. P a r r y . Europe, Asia, Australia, and
Tierra del Fuego.
D e s c r i p t io n . — The moonwort, and all other species of
Botrychium, have a short, fleshy, nearly erect, cordlike rhizoma,