XCIl. 



SCOLOPODENDRIUM VULGARE. 



Common HarCs-totigue. 



Class XXIV. Cryptogamia. — Order I. Filices. 



Nat. Ord. Filices. 



Gen. Char. Sori linear, transverse, on lateral nerves. 

 Involucre double, occupying both sides of the sorus, 

 opening by a longitudinal suture. 



Spec. Char. Frond simple, cordate-ligulate, smooth be- 

 neath. Stipes scaly. 



SYNONYMES. 



Greek. <pvXXtri;, 



I Lingua cervina officiuarum. Bauh, Pin. 353. 

 Phyllitis. Ger. Em. 1138. Rait Syn. 116. Dod. Pempt. 464. 

 Hemionitis. Fuchs, 294. 

 ] Asplenium Scolopendrium. Liu. Sp. PI. 1537- 

 Scolopodendi'ium vulgare. Engl. Fl. iv. p. 318. Eng, Bot. 

 t. 1679. 

 French .... Scolopodendre ; Langiie de cerf ; Doradille. 

 Italian. .. . Scolopodendra ; Lingua di cervo. 

 Portuguese. Lingua cervina. 

 German . . . Hirschzunge. 



Dutch Hartstong. 



Danish ... Hiortetongue. 

 Swedish . . . Hiortunga. 



Latin < 



Description. — The root (rhizoma)is perennial, and furnished 

 with numerous brown fibres. The leaves or fronds, which 

 spring iramediately from the root, are about a foot in length, 

 and from one to two inches broad, somewhat coriaceous, light 

 vivid green, smooth, plane, oblong, acute, cordate at the base, 

 entire, undulated at the margin, and supported on petioles, 

 which are clothed with mossy hairs or reddish scales. The 



