COMMON ADDER’S TONGUE . 
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“ a most excellent greene oyle, or rather a balsame for 
greene wounds, comparable to oile of St. John’s-Wort, 
if it do not farre surpasse 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 
shades of surrounding herbage. 
var. incisum. 
