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ASPLENIUM SCOLOPENDRIUM.  HARTS-TONGUE. 
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SYNONYMA. Scolopendrium feu Lingua cervina. Pharm. id. 
Lingua cervina Offcinarum. Bauh. Pin. 350. Ger. Emac. 1138. 
Park. Theat. 1046. Ray. Hift. 134.  Synop. 116. Afplenium 
petiolis hirfutis, folio longe lineari, lanceolata, integerrimo circa 
petiolum exficco. Hall. Hiff.n. 1695. Afplenium, Frondes lan- 
ceolate, &c. Scop. Fl. Carn. A.Scolopendrium. Hudjon. Flor. 
Ang. 384. Withering. Bot. Arr. iii. 51. Ic. Bolten. Fil. Brit. t. 
11, Curt. Flor. Lond. . : 
Cryptogamia Filices. Lin. Gen. Plant. 11 78. 
Gen. Ch. Fruitific. in Vineolis difci feondis {parfis. 
Sp. Ch. A. frondibus fimplicibus cordato-lingulatis integerrimis, fti- 
tibus hirfutis, — ge 
ROOT perennial, furnifhed with numerous fibres, which are brown 
and fubdividing. Stipites or ftalks fimple, befet with mofly hair, 
extending along the midrib. Leaves long, tongue-fhaped, pointed, 
entire, f{mooth, often a foot in length, of a fhining yellowith green 
colour, and waved at the margin. Fruttifications placed in oblique 
lines on each fide of the midrib of the leaf. Involucrum a membra- 
nous linear-fhaped veficle, opening longitudinally. Capfules nume- 
rous, on footftalks, globular, furnifhed with an elaftic ring like thofe 
of Polypodium. The feeds, which are exceedingly minute, and very 
numerous, are thrown to a confiderable diftance by the veffel con- 
taining them, being violently forced open by the elaftic power of 
the zing. ==, 
It eee on moift fhady rocks, old walls, and at the mouths of 
wells and caverns, producing its frudtifications in Auguft and 
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