Plate LI. a. 



THE COMMON MOONWOKT (Botbvcmoi I.ixakia). 



BOTHYCIIIUM, Swartz. 



Clusters ofSporfrcasts naked, clustered on and entirely Occupying a contracted branch 

 of the frond, forming a panicle of secund spikctcts. Spore-cases laigCp sessile, 

 globose, biserial, ileshy-eoriaccous, not reticulated, and without a ring, two- 

 valvcd, opening vertically. Veins f label In to-furcato ; v&udes disunited at their 

 extremities. 



runxjcar. 



4, !♦ 4. &utf, £*$M 



B. Loxaria; fronds solitary; barren branch oblong pinnate, the piniue lunate or 

 fan-shaped, with the margin jagged or crcnatc. 



BonvcHiraf ltrcimia, &mrfr t SclraJrr't Jfarnal /5r Ji< BH*mk t 1900. ii, 110. &u7J a Ogtuk JTof^ir. 

 315* Jlwbtr, fttra JW«c«a, iv. U 00 ; Qtm* Fiiltvm, I, 47 a. Jteolvr W .4r**tt t Jim, A /7*n,, 



G7& JfaAijyfai, Jfauut & Br&M Uttap, 417. JVo^m, 47tVt>/qaiM //rfmicv, iv. 31. -Vn™-n f 



Mufay & ******* &r** t $U> MmtitfoAdfakifBrUbk />/**, 213. &**rty< *>n* tf Greet //Ht** t 

 07, 1. 15, AntivAi', Ary^oauVA* 0r*ri*W, IfiO, L 151, nUiJeaoir, 6>**m* 2Wm*T, *. CL ^rmor/, 



$jtU*4 VspUUUum, jr, 23, iVrtJ, S«pp!rmt*t*m TrAlautinU I'terUtognrfki* t -13. 



BornrciliCai UJYAlttf, Gr*jr, Xitural AmtpwrMt *f IlritUlMont*, il W. 

 OaUU*i>a Luxamia, Zuuhm, 4wrfM iVn*/o/*«. Wlft /fefcoa, JY/fa* Afrifo 



*f«i, v, t, 31$, 

 Omtxna ic*ata, SaHdnry, FrvJtpm*!, Wl, 



0MIIOGLOA4V* mffATCW, i^*tarrftfr» *Vjrt /tapm, I. ft, 



K«r P eutaceuM; barren branch deltoid, pinnate, the piniue linear pinnatitid, 



Bonrcmiru Llwabu *> £WA, /:*^/*Yt J7<>™, jr. :;i.^ 



JSoriTcnicw mCTACECii, AW/r ( Snlrorfrr** JaotmJ /3r <fr JfaAmi^ ISOO, If. 110. MV/teaow. 0>*ta 

 Pl**l«rum t v. A &M*Jr, Kryptopmit** G««f**r, 157, t. 1W *g- *■> <**d. fig. *.) iW, &/>jifaif«/*j« 



TntteAunit PUri&yfaphi* f II. Xewma* t IfUtory of ttfifuk Frnta, 320. Zfaotaytar, Atantat tflfriti** 

 Hvt>my t ed. I r J2I>. Cnry, JtrtiUk PlamtS, it. 10, 



BOTftYCUllTlf V.tTBTf mi Yicr.U v, ^, Ilfttun, AorA** 6>*Cp#*#, od* £ 072. IfW« YwriiW 2%r<i f 42G. 

 QjHVMU LVXAKIA ♦* KAUOfA, JEotf, *7<W« ferMffafol, Ik). 82. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 



PtAiE LI, a.— ItoTHTcniiu LnUBU) 1, from Chiiltnuni, Kent; 0, /J, irottartoii. 2 f froc* KuLhtn, Denbighjaire ■ 

 T. Pfi/tfArtrJ. 



HABITAT*— A Kiiklx*4liftWd, but load njtcAC^ found liciv Aijd ibcro over llic wJ>olr of Eo^kaJ, Wil^ nod Scothud, 

 c.iU»n<liiig to Uw Inhmla of Orkney *:i-J Sd^tUml. It hns b«ti lc« Troqnmtlj found in IrcUtul. but ia m>ortoJ 

 tbfnco frotti all the proiiucM. It b fomid in dry open elevated nuiure* »Tid leialo Uudt, gunernllF shirting tbe 

 bailie* vhieli oceur iu imch locAlitie«. Though abundant in tome of it« habitat^ Alio! general in tti d»tribnlion t it 

 on hardlj be eon«4e?cd a» a eomtoon spceie*. Its aJlitudinil nmgc U stated to reach from the ttail lurd to About 

 27W fret above tlio * t -:i* Tto phut referrod to m/aeewn hat boea gathered on the tind» of lUrrr t KorfAnhire. 



OHOOltAPHICAL D1STB1BUTI0>\— The Moonworl U reported to oeenr m wioui parU of Europe, from Iceland, tho 

 NortU Cape, and Lajtaid, io &«!/ and 8piiu, and tho RiU40-Caue^ubn nrovioeea. In A#ia : at Kikkun md Kumaon 

 in tho HimalarA (lit. S/Wtvrr-) t in Ssberii, in the region* of the Ural and Altai Mountain*, and Lake Ikiikal, 

 extending to KamtctalLa and Unalucbka, In North Aaaeric*; in Newfoundland, Oreeul&ud; Bear Ltkc, tbe 

 Sitknlehawan. and Kocky Mountains *c BArmg^ Strait in North Wc« -Vmcrko, It «Uo oeeurj in Fuegi*, and 

 in Tuiuania ; and haa Ixvn reeently met with by Dr. Muller on tho Aiutralian Alp*, in Vktora. If. rutawum U a 

 native of the northern and eentrol part* of Kurone, and therefore f although aenrcety lo be conaidcred a* a aettlcd 

 memter of our flora, it ia not unlikely to be to. Th« North Amenoan B> raat/lrx, ia (irobably tbo amall *Ute of a 

 fern, found abuul I Eudton'a Bay, and (he RukAtebnton, and in Canada, intimately allied to B, rutatmm. 



Corm-like Crotim forming a small scarcely thickened wiry-rooted descending axis (rhizome, PresZ), 

 terminatcil by a bud or groWtog point, enclosed by brown membranaceous shcatiis. Itoots sloutish, 

 llcshy, brittle, branched, growing in an irregular spreading manner from about the crown ; and also 

 branching in n guhvcrticillatcd way from the perpendicular axin beneath the crown. When at rest 

 tho plant constate of this crown or bud, or growing point* seated among the wiry roots, enclosing 

 the incipient or rudimentary fronds, and encased by membranaceous sheaths the remains of the 

 former fronds, 



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