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Edward Newman on British Ferns. 
Genus. — Botrychium, Swartz. 
Frond produced annually within tlie base of the fertile 
frond of the preceding year : exterior or barren branch va- 
riously divided; interior or capsuliferous branch also much 
divided : capsules spherical, sessile, crowded. 
Botrychium lunaria. 
Osmunfla lunaria, Linn. Sp. PI. 1519 ; Light/. FI. Scot. 652; 
Huds. FI. Ang. 449 ; Bolt. Fil. Brit. 4, t. 4 ; With. 
Arr. 762 ; Sm. E. B. 318. 
Botrychium lunaria, Sm. E. F. iv. 328 ; Mack. FI. Hib. 
346; Newm. N. A. 30, F. 337 ; Hook, and Am. 578; 
Bab. 417. 
Boot stout, spreading, sparingly branched ; stipes erect ; 
fertile branch of the frond a racemose panicle, the barren 
branch pinnate ; pinnae three to seven pairs, flabelliform, 
with crenate margins. 
A dwarf plant. Heaths, rather local. 
Genus. — Ophioglossum, Linneus. 
Frond produced annually exterior to the base of the last 
year’s frond : exterior or barren branch a simple undivided 
spathe ; interior or fertile branch a simple, erect, stalked, 
pointed spike, in the substance of which two parallel series 
of large spherical capsules are embedded; these open by a 
transverse fissure, giving the spike a serrated appearance. 
Ophioglossum vulgatum. 
Ophioglossum vulgatum, Linn. Sp. PI. 1518; Light/. Flor. 
Scot. 651 ; Huds. Flor. Ang. 449 ; Bolt. Fil. Brit. 2, t. 
3; With. Arr. 761; Sm. E. F. iv. 330, E. B. 108; 
Mack. FI. Hib. 346 ; Neium. N. A. 30, F. 349; Hook, 
and Am. 578 ; Bab. 417. 
Stipes erect ; fertile branch of the frond an erect, club- 
shaped, pointed spike ; the barren branch an entire ovato- 
lanceolate leaf. 
A dwarf plant, growing on heaths and in meadows. 
