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BOTRYCHIUM LUNAK1A. 
Wood, Ingleton, and at Settle, in Yorkshire; Seadbury 
Park, and Chisselhurst Common, Kent; on the north 
side of Bredon Hill, in Worcestershire; at Shirehampton, 
and on Kiugs-Weston-Hill, near Bristol; near Bury, 
in Suffolk; on Stratton Heath, in Norfolk; on coal-pit 
banks, near Stourbridge; at Bootle, near Liverpool; 
on the sea-coast between South Shields and Sunderland; 
on Oversley Hill, near Alcester; and near Alaw and 
Aberffraw rivers, in Anglesea. In Scotland, on Ard- 
garth Hill, to the north of Linlithgow; near Dun- 
donalds, two miles from Little Loch Broom, on the west 
coast of Ross-shire, and in the Isle of Skye. In 
Ireland, on the rising ground of a meadow, about two 
hundred yards north or tne second lock of Lagan 
Canal. 
The first English botanist who mentions this Fern 
is Turner, who, in the third part of his “Herbal,” 
published in 1568, gives a very good woodcut of the 
plant, and, after its description, adds, “ it may be called 
wel in Englislie Cluster Lunarye, or Cluster Moomvort." 
Gerard, writing a few years subsequently, mentions 
many places where it had been found in England, and 
after describing its appearance, and stating its various 
appellations, proceeds to observe, that “ Small Moon- 
wort is singular to heal green and fresh wounds. It 
hath been used among the alchymists and witches to do 
wonders witball, who say that it will loose locks, and 
make them to fall from the feet of horses that graze 
where it doth grow, aud hath been called of them 
Martagon, whereas, in truth, they are all but drowsy 
