Botrychium Lunaria, Swartz . 
MOONWORT. 
Root — Long and wiry, with numerous branches. 
Frond — 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. 
Venation — Veins in the pinnae of the leafy portion of 
the frond, radiating from the base, both simple and 
branched. 
Fructification — A panicle terminating the frond; its 
branches turned one way, and bearing sessile, globular spore- 
cases, which eventually burst and expel the spores. 
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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