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SCOLOPENDEIUM YULGAEE. Symoxs. 
( Hart's Tongue or Hart's Tongue Sioleenivort.J 
Deriyatiox of Name. From scolopendra, the name of a 
genus of Centipedes, to the feet of which the fructification 
is supposed to hear resemblance. 
Syxoxymes. 
Aspeexium Scolopexdriijm. Linnceus. 
ScoLOPEXDRiiiM Officixartjm. Bwartz. 
ScoLOPEXDEiuM Phyllitis. Roth. 
Phyelitis Scoeopexdriijm. Newman. 
DESCMPTIOX. 
Catjdex black tufted and scaly, with black strong rootlets. 
Eroxds simple linear and heart shaped at the base, 
varying from one inch to four or five wide, and from two 
or three inches to three or four feet high. It springs in 
April and is green tliroughout the winter. 
Yeixs forked, to the outside of which are attached the 
line of 
Spore Cases covered by a white involucre. Two lines 
of capsules are j)roduced side by side and at length becoming 
confluent form the characteristic fructification of the Scolo- 
pendrium. 
