BOTRYCHIUM LUNARIA 



Fig. 113. A.f.f. Victoria (plant). 



V. elegans, V. gracile, V. magnificum, raised by Lowe and 

 others. 



BOTRYCHIUM LUNARIA (The Moonwort). 

 (Plate XL) 





Like the Adder's-tongue this (Fig. 114) grows in pasture land 

 but of a drier character, and is found at 

 higher levels up to three thousand feet. If 

 lifted it must be done en masse in a clod of 

 soil with the grass, upon which it is considered 

 to be in some way dependent. It has but two 

 fronds, a sterile lobed one, with rounded, fan- 

 shaped pinnae a la Adiantum, but tough and 

 fleshy, and a divided fertile one, like a little 



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Fig. 114. 



Botrychium lunaria 



(pinnae). 



grape cluster. Two varieties are worth recording : — 



Incisum (Plate XI). — Found several times ; the 

 deeply incised instead of rounded, and merely crenate. 



Tripartitum. — Found by Dr. Kinahan in Co. Dublin 

 deltoid and each frond resembling three normal ones. 



pinna? are 



fronds 



