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EUE -LEAVED MOONWORT. 



Eoots large, succulent, unbranched, extending horizontally 

 from the root-like caudex amongst the radicles of grasses, 

 which, in the German specimens I have received, through the 

 kindness of Professor Braun and Dr. Casparj', adhere to them 

 in great numbers. Stipes branched near its summit : the bar- 

 ren branch shortly stipitate, deltoid, pinnate or pinnatipartite : 

 the pinnse linear, pinnatifid, and having a distinct midvein, or 

 median axis of growth ; ultimate divisions bifid or trifid. 



Botryoliium rutaceum, [natural si-e). 



Looking at the above figure, drawn from a specimen kindly 

 given me by Professor Braun, and representing, with tolerable 

 fidelity, the normal state of a very common European Botry- 

 chium ; recollecting that this is certainly the plant freely ad- 

 mitted by Ray and Smith as British ; and comparing it with 

 the figure of B. lunaria at page 313 ; it becomes desirable to 

 consider whether it ought to receive the rank and name of a 

 species. I confess, that I have no prejudice in favour of either 

 course : it affords another of those instances in which our 



