Plate 48. 
B0TRYCHITJM Lunaria, Sw. 
Common Moonwort. 
Gen. Char. Capsules subglobose, sessile, clustered at the margin and on 
one side of a pinnated rachis, 1-celled, compressed, opening transversely. 
Involucre none.—-Frond, being a pedunculated spike or panicle of fructifi¬ 
cations. Y sms forked, free. 
Botrychium Lunaria; frond oblong, pinnated, pinnae few, lunate or subflabel- 
liform, crenated or toothed or subpinnatifid; veins radiating, several times 
dichotomous. 
Botrychium Lunaria. Sw. Syn. Ml. p. 171. ScJiJc. Ml. p. 156. t. 154. Willd. 
Sp. PL v. 5. p. 61. Hook, in FI. Lond. Suppl. t. 66. Hook, and Am. Brit. 
FI. ed. 8. p. 596. Brest, Suppl. Tent. Pterid. p. 43. Moore , Brit. Ferns , 
Nat. Pr . p. 43. Sm. Fngl. FI. v. 4. p. 15. 
Osmunda Lunaria. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1519. Bolt. Fit. Brit. p. 4. t. 4. Fngl. 
Bot. t. 318. 
f3. Sm. Lunaria minor. Bail Syn. 129. t( Stalk branched, bearing several leaves 
and compound spikes, alternately disposed .” Sm. Eng. FI. l.c. 
y. Sm. Lunaria racemosa minor, Adianti folio. Breyn. Cent. t. 93. “ A slight 
variety, with more jagged leaves than ordinary .” Sm. l.c. 
8. Sm. Lunaria minor, foliis dissectis. “ A more spreading habit, with the leaflets 
pinnatifidP Sm. l.c. 
Hob. Dry mountain and hilly pastures, and downs near the sea, in various parts 
of the United Kingdom, from the extreme south to Orkney and Shetland 
in the north. 
Specimens corresponding with the varieties recorded by Smith 
(though not very clearly defined by him) are not very unfrequent, 
but appear to me rather malformations, the effect of injury, than 
varieties worthy of notice. I presume they are included in Mr. 
Moore’s var. rutaceum , B. rutaceum of continental botanists, and 
the B. matricaricefolium, A. Braun, in Koch’s Synopsis, ed. 2. 
p. 972. Our figures represent the ordinary state of the plant. 
A very strange figure or monstrosity of it is given by Mr. New¬ 
man, Brit. Ferns, ed. 3. p. 324, from a drawing made by Mr. 
Cruickshank, said to be found on the sands of Barry, Dundee, 
