Prarz LL a. 
THE COMMON MOONWOR! 
(Borrycurom LUNAR). 
BOTRYCHIUM, Swarts. 
Clusters of Spore-cases naked, clustered on and entirely occupying a contracted branch 
of the frond, forming a panicle of secund spikelets, Sporc-eases lange, sessile 
globose, biscrial, fle not reticulated, and without a ring, two 
valved, opening vertically. Veins Aabellato-furcate ; renules disunited at their 
B. Lusana; fronds solitary 
fan-shaped, with the me 
ron branch oblon 
n jagged or erenate 
pinnate, the pinne Ішіме or 
доданы, Levant, incu, us Риме 
о Nese Bald 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Corm-like Crown forming a small scarcely thickened wiry-rooted descending axis (rhizome, Presl), 
terminated by a bud or growing point, enclosed by brown membranaceous sheaths. Roots stontih, 
fleshy, brittle, branched, growing in an irregular spreading manner from about the crown ; and also 
branching in a subverticillated way from the perpendicular axis beneath the crown, When at rest 
the plant consists of this crown or bud, or growing point, seated among the wiry roots, en 
7 and encased by membranaceous sheaths the remains of the 
the incipient or rudimentary fronds, and m heath 
former fronds 
