“ The thick and rich-looking yet leathery texture of the fronds of 
the Hart’s-tongue, with their deep and shining green colour, make 
them look exquisitely cool and refreshing, rising up out of the dark 
hedge-bank as they do, in thick and clustering tufts—sometimes 
almost erect, at other times gracefully bending backward their shin- 
ing leathery tips. . . . You will find it growing almost everywhere in 
Devonshire : on the tops and at the sides of walls; hanging from old 
ruins ; growing out from the sides of cliffs and deserted quarries ; and 
dropping down its long green frondsinto the cool and limpid water of 
roadside wells hewn out of the rock.”—FRANCIS. 
