ADDER'S-TONGUE FAMILY 



BOTRYCHIUM. Grape Fern. Moonwort. 



The name is derived from the Greek, botriis, 

 a bunch of grapes, alluding to the clustered 

 sporangia. 



The Grape Ferns usually produce but o)ie 

 frond each season. They were formerly classed 

 in the Fern Family, but are now separated on 

 account of the different nature of the fruit. 



MOON'WORT. 



Botrychaim Lunaria. 



The sterile portion is nearly sessile, borne 

 near the middle of the common stalk, which is 

 from two to twelve inches high. It is one or 

 two inches long, narrow in form, very fleshy, 

 and pinnately parted into from two to eight 

 pairs of fan-shaped, very obtuse, crenate, incised, 

 or sometimes nearly entire lobes. These are dis- 

 tant, or may overlap each other. The veins are 

 much forked. 



Moonwort grows mostly in dry fields and 

 pastures and is very rare. 



The fertile portion is from two to three pin- 

 nate, and is mature in June or July. 



