982 CRY PTOG AMI A. FILICES. Osmunda. 
rudiment of the next year’s plant. Linn. Wings of the leaf fleshy, cre¬ 
scent-shaped, (whence its trivial name in both languages, E.) semi-cir¬ 
cular, and halberd-shaped. Woodw. About five inches high. Leqfits 
irregularly scolloped. Spikes , or rather panicle, from one to two inches long. 
Moonwort. (Irish: Luss na Misia. Welsh: Lloer-redynen gyffredin. 
O. Lunaria. Linn. Huds. Lightf. FI. Brit. E. Bot. Botrychium Lunaria. 
Willd. Decand. Hook. E.) Mountainous meadows and pastures in 
Westmoreland; near Settle, Yorkshire; Scadbury Park, Kent; and 
Chisselhurst Common. Mear Bank, by Sykes Wood, Ingleton, York¬ 
shire. Curtis. North side of Bredon Hill, Worcestershire. Nash. Near 
Bury. Mr. Woodward. Stratton Heath, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. On coal¬ 
pit banks near Stourbridge. Mr. Waldron Hill. (Bootle, near Liverpool. 
Dr. Bostock. Sea coast between South Shields and Sunderland. Winch 
Guide. In an old pasture on Oversley Hill, near Alcester. RufFord, in 
Purt. Near Alaw and AberfFraw rivers, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. E.) 
P. May—July. 
Var. 2. Linn. Leaves and stalks several. Cam. 
Cam. Epit. 644— Matth. a. C. B. 647. 2. 
Found in England. Cam. ib. 
Leaves in pairs, doubly winged, wings cut. Wild. n. 875. 
Var. 3. Leaves cloven into segments. 
Breyn. Cent. 93— H. Ox. xiv. 5, row 2. 3— FI. Dan. 18. 3. 
Osmunda Lunaria (5. Huds. Bolt. p. 5. 
Westmoreland, and the northern counties. R. Syn. 
(Mr. Bolton found a variety on a high knoll in the grounds of Shibden Hall, 
near Halifax, with leaves shaped like an expanded fan, divided by nar¬ 
row sections running almost down to the base into four or five lobes, 
which are deeply crenated at their extremities. E.) 
( 2 ) The leaf itself bearing the fructification. 
O. rega'lis. Leaf doubly winged: bunches terminal, more than 
doubly compound. 
Knigh. 2— (Hook. FI. Lond. 150. E.)— E. Bot. 209— Pluk. 181. 4— Trag. 
543— Blackw. 324— Town. 324 —FI. Dan. 217— Bolt. 5— J. B. iii. 736— 
Dod. 463— Lob. Obs. 474. 1 and 2; Ic. i. 813— Ger. Em. 1131— Park. 
1038— Ger. 971— H. Ox. xiv. 4, row 3. 1— Gars. 273— R. Syn. Ed. i. 1. 
2, at p. 1. 
Capsules opening vertically. Stackh. From two to four feet high, of a 
pleasant transparent green. Leaves doubly winged. Leqfits strap-spear¬ 
shaped, blunt, finely but indistinctly serrated, the lower and younger 
ones often lobed at the base. The upper wings change into clusters of 
capsules, and lose all appearance of foliage. Fructification , when ripe, 
red brown. 
Osmund Royal. Flowering Fern. Royal Moonwort. (Scotch: 
Royal Brachens. Welsh: Rhedynen cyfrdwy. E.) Watery places and 
boggy marshes. About Cosgarne and Marazion, in the mouths of old 
mines. Mr. Watt. Bogs near Yarmouth. Mr. Woodward. St. Faith’s, 
Newton Bogs, near Norwich. Mr. Crowe. (Low-gelt-bridge, and Kes¬ 
wick. Hutchinson. Allonby Moss, Cumberland. Rev. J. Dodd. Chart- 
ley Moss, Staffordshire. Hon. Mr. Bagot. Between Crosby and Formby, 
