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Moonwort

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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or Moon-Fern, in botany, the popular name of a small fern (Botrychium Lunaria), belonging to the order Ophioglossaceae (see Ferns). It has a tuberous root-stock and a stout fleshy glabrous frond 3 to 6 in. long, with a sterile and fertile portion; the former bears several pairs of close-set, semi-circular or moon-shaped pinnae, the latter is pinnately branched and covered, on the face opposed to the sterile portion, with small globose spore-cases which burst transversely. It is a widely distributed plant in the north and south temperate and cold zones, and is found in pastures and grassy banks in Britain.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Moonwort'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​m/moonwort.html. 1910.
 
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