~ BOTRYCHIUM. (See “ Ferns of Southern India,” p. 22.) 
| BoTRYCHIUM Lun ARIA. (Swartz.) rhizome small scarcely thickened enclosed by brown sheaths furnished with 
stoutish fleshy brittle branched roots—stipes erect smooth cylindrical hollow succulent, vernation plicate or folded straight the fertile 
branch clasped by the sterile before unfolding, fronds solitary 3-10 inches high firm stout fleshy, sterile branch oblong pinnate smooth, 
pinnæ 4-7 pairs flabellate or lunate the margins crenate (rarely partially fertile) fertile branch pinnate or bipinnate, venation (barren 
pinnæ) flabellato-furcate, i.e. the vein enters at the base and is repeatedly forked, veins not quite extending to the margin: 
The specimen figured is from Deoban (Punjab.) 
Hab, Himalayas, Europe, N. America, Australia. 
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