Pl.end.cr, 1. FILICES. 15. Hymenoph. 19 



Hymenophyllum Tunlridgense. Tunlridge dwarffern. 



Frond pinnate; leaflets digitato-pinnatifid ; lohes linear, 

 serrate ; sori superaxillary, solitary ; involucra serrate ; rachis 

 winged; stipes round. 



Capillus Veneris q. Adiantum petraeurn perpusillum Anglicutn, foliis 

 bifidis Tel trifidis, Rail Si/n. 123, 2. 

 Darea Tunbridgensis, Petiver Mus. 

 Trichotnanes Tunbridgense, im. S. P. 1561. 

 T. pulchellum, Salisb. Prod. iOi. 

 Hytnenophylluin Tnnbridgense, Smith Fl. Aug, 1141. 

 Tunbridge goldilocks. 



Moist and shady rocks ; perennial ; May and June. 



Fronds 2 or 3 in. high, cespitose, decumbent or erectj 

 dark green, membranaceous, transparent; sori solitary^ 

 sessile or with short footstalks on the upper margin of the 

 lobes, lenticular, compressed ; involucrum bivalve, the edge 

 torn or serrate; capsules many, brown, globose, bivalve, 

 sitting on a short receptacle. 



I. BoTRYCHi^. Sori in a compound two-rowed spikej 

 and opening parallely with their insertion ; capsules without 

 ring or striae. 



XVI. 16.BOTRYCHIUM. Swartz. Moonwort. 



Spike two rowed, compound ; sori open parallel to theif 

 insertion ; capsules without ring or strise. 



1. Boirychium lunatumi Lunated moonwort. 

 Scape above one fronded ; frond pinnatifid ; leaflets lu- 

 nate, not in the least nicked. 



Lunaria minor, Raii Syn. 128 ; Ger. em. 405; Park. 507. 



Osmunda Lunaria, izw. S. P. 1519. 



O. lunata, Sa/M. Prod. 401. 



Botrychiiim Lunaria, Swartz Syn. Fil. 171. 



Common moonwort. 



In meadows and hill pastures ; perennial, June. 



Root fibrous ; frond about a hand high, smooth, greenish, 

 single ; leaflets crescentshape ; spike at the base of the 

 frond, upright, tworowed ; capsules globose, smooth, brown. 



Made into an ointment with butter, and rubbed in op- 

 posite to the kidneys, it is esteemed a certain remedy for 

 a dysentery. 



2. Boirychium rutaceum. Rue moonwort* 

 Scape above one fronded; frond bipinnatifidj loles 



notched, 2 or 3 toothed, obtuse. 



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