BOTRYCHIUM LUNARIA 
Fig. 113. A. f. f. Victoria (plant). 
V. ELEGANS, V. GRACILE, V. MAGNIFICUM, raised by Lowe and 
others. 
BOTRYCHIUM LUNARIA (THE MooNwoRT). 
* (Plate XI.) 
Like the Adder's-tongue this (Fig. 114) grows in pasture land, 
but of a drier character, and is found at 
higher levels up to three thousand feet. If Sit у 
lifted it must be done en masse in a clod of S 1 1) 
soil with the grass, upon which it is considered S 
to be in some way dependent. It has Бий two 
fronds, a sterile lobed one, with rounded, fan- Fig. 114. 
shaped pinne 4 la Adiantum, but tough and Botrychium lunaria 
fleshy, and a divided fertile one, like a little (pinnz). 
grape cluster. Two varieties are worth recording :— 
Incısum (Plate XI).—Found several times; the pinne are 
deeply incised instead of rounded, and merely crenate. 
TnrPARTITUM.—Found by Dr. Kinahan in Co. Dublin ; fronds 
deltoid and each frond resembling three normal ones. 

