Botrychium Lunaria, Swartz . 
MOONWORT. 
Root — Long and wiry, with numerous branches. 
Fronds — From three to nine inches in length, consisting 
of a barren and a fruit-bearing branch, rising from one 
round succulent stipes, sheathed at the base. The barren 
leafy frond is pinnatifid ; the pinnae alternate, and fan shaped ; 
margin somewhat crenate. Fertile frond pinnate, pinnae 
alternate ; the lower pinnae pinnate. 
Pinnules — The pinnules of the fertile frond bear 
globular capsules, when ripe, of an orange yellow ; which 
eventually burst and expel the spores. 
Venation — Veins in the pinnae of the leafy portion of 
the frond, radiating from the base, both simple and 
branched. 
Habitat — On old mine hillocks, and on dry turfy and 
boggy slopes, exposed to the sun. Matlock, and other 
parts of Derbyshire. 
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