COMMON ADDER'S TONGUE. 
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“ a most excellent greene oyle, or rather a balsame for 
greene woupds, comparable to oile of St. John’s-Wort, 
if it do not farre snrpasse it.” The plant prefers 
loamy pastures and meadow land, where its abun- 
dance, disliked by the cattle, by no means improves 
the grass. It is readily cultivable, but likes the 
shade of surrounding herbage. 
A. TRICHOMANES. 
var. mcisum. 
