rega'lis. . 
CRYPTOGAMIA. FILICES. Osmunda. 
Dicks. bh. s.—Kniph. \1-E. bot. 318—Blackw. 42C-Fl. dane 
1-Garid. 78, at p. 346-Col. Phyt. 18-Cam, epit. 
643. 1-Bolt. fil. 4—Barr. 252. 2-H. ox. xiv. 5, 1-Lom 
i. 77. 1-Maztth. 903-—Ger. 328. 2-Matth. a. C. B. 647. 
1-—Clus. ii. 118. 2—Dod. 139. 2-Lob. obs. 470. 5 53 ite Te 
807. 2-Ger. em. 405. 2—Park, 507-Fuchs, 483-7. B 
iii. 710-Trag. 914. 
Within the base of the stem, early in the spring, may be 
found a complete rudiment of the next year’s plant. Livy. 
Wings of the leaf fleshy, crescent-shaped, semi-circular, and hal- 
rd-shaped. It so exactly resembles Ophioglossum wulgatum in 
habit and structure, that they ought by no means to be separated. 
t. Woopw. About 5 inches high. Leafts irregularly scol- 
loped. Spike, or SS pre from 1 to 2 inches long. 
Common Mocrwort. ntainous meadows and pastures in 
land ; near Settle, “Votkahin?: Scadbury Park, Kent ; 
and Chisselhurst Common. Mear B ykes Wood, In- 
t Bank, by S 
gleton, Yorkshire. Curr. North side of Bredon Hill, Wor- 
cestershire. Nasu. [Near Bury. Mr. Woopw. Stratton Heath, 
Norfolk. Mr. Crowr. On coalpit banks near Stourbri 43 
Mt. Waxpron Hit. | P. May—July.* 
Var. 2—Linn. Leaves and stalks several. Cam. 
Cam. epit. 644—Matth. a. C. B. 647. 2. 
Found in En ngland. Cam, id. 
Leaves in pairs, doubly ee wings cut. Wild. 2. 875+ 
Var. 3. Leaves cloven into segments. 
Breyn. cent, 93-H. ox. xiv. 5. row 2, S—FI. dan. 18. 3 
Osmunda Lunaria 6 Huds. Bolt. p. 5 
Westmoreland, and the northern counties, R. Sys 
; (2) The leaf itself bearing the fructifications. 
O. Leaf Seably re : bunches terminating, more than 
y compou 
Kniph. 2-E. bot. 209—Pluk. 181. 4-Trag. 543—Blackw- 324 
Tourn. 324~Fl. dan. 217~Bolt. 5~¥. B. iii. 736-Dod 
* Oss. Osmunda Str capbiopteriny Pai and I believe eriipa, do 1 
nus; virgini regalis, apd cinmamomeus ed 
in structure with 0, Daa ee atter, with the genus Opbioglossums 
and perhaps ape which I have never seen in fructification, form 4 
natural family of t tribe ae Fitters, distinguishable by the wa ant Ss say 
and to all the Ferns propery so called, and which unites them and en ‘e 
nera aac ieh » Polypodium, Hemionitis, Asplenium, Blechnum, Lonchitisy 
hpi i > tab and Tri emai, into another distinct natural assem- 
age. 
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