1 4s 8. Scolopeti. 1. FILICES. Pl.end.cr . 
*1 • Asplenium murale. Wall spleenwort . 
Frond, two parted at the base, simply pinnate at the tip ; 
leaflets rhomboidal, oblong, obtuse, with the tip gnawed 
or crenate. 
Ruta muraria, Raii Syn. 122 ; Ger. em. 1144. 
Jtufa muraria, seu Salvia vitee, Park . 1050. 
Asplenium Ruta muraria, Lin. S. P. 1541. 
Asplenium murale, Stokes Bot. M. M. 4, 610. 
Scolopendrium Ruta muraria, Roth Germ. 3. 52. 
White maidenhair. W all rue. Tent wort. 
Moist clefts in rocks and stone walls; per. June to Oct. 
Foot dark brown; fronds many, 9 in. high, spreading, 
very dark green, rather of a bluish cast, smooth ; leaflets 
footstalked, wedgeshape or rhombic, horizontal or even 
bent down ; sori many ; involucra whitish, their edge ere- 
nulate. 
Demulcent and diuretic. 
/3. majus. Leaflets narrow, acuminate. 
Ruta muraria q Adiautum album tenuifolium, rutae inurariae accedens, 
J. Baub. Raii Syn. 123, 2. 
8. Asplenium septentrionale. Northern spleenwort . 
Frond usually 2 or 3 parted; loles linear, with the tip 
mostly 3- toothed; stipes very long. 
Filix saxatilis Tragi, Raii Syn. 120, 1 j Park. 1045. 
Muscus coruiculatus, Ger. em. 1561. 
Acrosticiium septentrionale, Lin. S. P. 1524. 
Asplenium septentrionale, Hull FI. Ang. 241. 
Scolopendrium septentrionale, Roth Germ. 3, 49. 
Forked maidenhair. 
Clefts of rocks in the north parts ; peren. June to Oct. 
Root black, ceespitose ; fronds many, 6 in. high, upright, 
dark green, smooth, narrow at the base, above three 
parted ; sori parallel, brown, covering all the narrow disk ; 
involucra not in the least notched. 
E. Scolopendri^e. Involucra double, opening length- 
ways by a slit; sori linear. 
VIII. 8.SCOLOPENDRIUM.Theophrastus. Hartstongue. 
Sori linear, oblique, parallel to each other, placed be- 
tween the secondary ribs of the frond; involucra double, 
opening by a longitudinal fissure. 
Scolopendrium vulgar e. Common hartstongue . 
Frond broad, lanceolate, heartshape at the base ; stipes 
chaffy. 
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