THE BRITISH FERNS. 
THE COMMON MOONWORT. 
BOTRYCHIUM LUNARIA. 
B. fronds solitary; barren branch oblong pinnate; pinne lunate 
or fan-shaped, the margin jagged or crenate. [Plate CXII.] 
Borrycurum LUNARIA, Swartz, Schrad. Jowrn. Bot. 1800, ii. 110; Id., Syn. 
Fil. 171. Smith, Eng. Fl. 2 ed. iv. 315. Hooker, Fl. Lond. iv. t. 66 ; Id., 
Gen. Fil. t. 47 A. Hooker & Arnott, Brit. Fl. 7 ed. 594. Mackay, Fl. 
Hib. 346. Babington, Man. Brit. Bot. 4 ed. 429. Deakin, Florigr. Brit. 
iv. 34, fig. 1577. Newman, Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 313. Moore, Handb. Brit. 
Ferns, 8 ed. 271; Id., Ferns of Gt. Brit. Nature Print. t. 51 A. Sowerby, 
Ferns of Gt. Brit. 79, t. 45. Bentham, Handb. Brit. Fl. 624. Lowe, Nat. 
Hist. Ferns, vii. t. 66 A. Schkuhr, Krypt. Gew. 156, t. 154. Willdenow, Sp. 
Plant. v. 61. Sprengel, Syst. Veg. iv. 23. Presl, Supp. Tent. Pterid. 43. 
Nyman, Syll. Fl. Europ. 434. Ledebour, Fl. Ross. iv. 504. Koch, Syn. 2 ed. 
972. Svensk Bot. t. 372, fig. 1. Milde, Nov. Act. N. C. xxvi. pt. 2, 657, 
tt. 47, 48. 
BOTRYCHIUM LUNATUM, Gray, Nat. Avr. Brit. Pl. ii. 19. 
Borryrus LUNARIA, Richard, Cat. Med. (Paris 1801) 120. 
OSMUNDA LUNARIA, Linneus, Sp. Plant. 1519. Bolton, Fil. 4, t. 4. Smith, 
Eng. Bot. v. t. 318. ‘Fl. Dan. t. 18, fig 1. Sturm, Fl. (Farrn.) t. 12. 
OsMUNDA LUNATA, Salisbury, Prod. 401. 
OPHIOGLOSSUM PENNATUM, Lamarck, Pl. Frang. i. 9. 
Var. rutaceum; barren branch deltoid, pinnate; pinne linear 
oblong inciso-serrate, or pinnatifid with the ultimate lobes 2-3-fid. 
Borrycurum LUNARIA, v. RUTACEUM, Moore, Ferns of Gt. Brit. Nature Printed, 
under t. 51 A; Id., Handb. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 271. 
BOTRYCHIUM LUNARIA, 8. Smith, Eng. Fl. 2 ed. iv. 315. 
BOTRYCHIUM RUTACEUM, Swartz, Schrad. Journ. 1800, ii. 110 in part; Id., Syn. 
Fil. 171, in part. Willdenow, Sp. Plant. v. 62. Schkuhr, Krypt. Gew. 
157, t. 155, fig. b. (excl. fig. a.) Presl, Supp. Tent. 44. Newman, Hist. 
Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 320. Babington, Man. Brit. Bot. 4 ed. 499. Ledebour, 
Fl. Ross. iv. 505. 
BOTRYCHIUM MATRICARLEFOLIUM, A. Braun, Koch, Syn. 2 ed. 972. Woods 
Tour. Fl. 426. Milde, Nov. Act. N. C. xxvi. pt. 2, 679, tt. 51, 52. x 
BOTRYCHIUM LANCEOLATUM, Ruprecht, Dist. Crypt. Ross. 33 ; ? Angstróm and 
Milde. 
OSMUNDA LUNARIA, B. RAMOSA, Roth, Fl. Germ. iii. 32. 
Var. tripartitum: barren branch deltoid, three parted; divisions 
or branches pinnate, with lunate pinne. 
BOTRYCHIUM LUNARIA, v. CRISTATUM, Kinahan, Proc. Dublin Nat. Hist. Soc. 
1855-6, 26 (reprinted from the Dublin Nat. Hist, Rev. iii.) t. 5. 

