986 CRYPTOGAMIA. FILICES. Asplenium* 
Leaf-stalks rising from the root, about two inches long. Leaf strap-shaped 
but rounded and hollowed at the base, from eight to twelve inches long, 
or more ; one inch and a half to two inches and a half broad, the shortest 
leaves the broadest. Fructifications in lines, slanting upwards from the 
mid-rib, but not in contact with it. 
Common Spleenwort, or Hart’s-tongue. ( Scolopendrium vulgar e. 
Sym. Sm. Hook. (Welsh: Tafod yr hudd cyffredin. Moist shady rocks, 
mouths of wells, and old walls. P. Aug.—Sept.* 
Var. 2. Leaves curled and jagged at the edge. 
J. B. iii. 757. 3. 
Near a petrifying spring, by the side of a rivulet at the bottom of Garn 
dingle, three miles from Denbigh. Mr. Griffith. 
Var. 3. Leaves with many clefts at the end. 
Clus. ii. 213. 3— Bod. 467. 2— Lob. Ohs. 469. 1 ; Ic. ii. 805. 2— Ger. Em. 
1138. 2—Park. 1047. 1—J. B. iii. 757. 2— H. Ox. xiv. 1, row 1. 2—Ger. 
976. 2. 
Phyllitis multijida. R. Syn. 117. In a lane near Swaneling, not many miles 
from Southampton. Gerard Em. Near Bromham, growing in the mouth 
of a well very much shaded. Mr. Norris. Cawsey Wood, Durham. Mr. 
Winch. E.) 
Var. 4. Leaves with clefts at the edges. 
Tourn. 451. 
Phyllitis polyschides, &c. R. Syn. 117. In woods. Bobart in R. Syn. 117. 
Var. 5. Stalk branched, with three or more leaves. 
H. Ox. xiv. 8. 
Mr. Gough sent me a specimen of this variety in which the stalk divides 
into five branches, but is entire at the base for about two inches and a 
half, and furnished with its usual leafy border. 
This was gathered on Warton Cragg, near Lancaster. 
All the above varieties are much smaller than the plant in its more common 
state. 
(Var. 6. Leaves much plaited and crenate at each edge, spear-shaped, 
(sometimes heart-tongue-shaped,) nearly as large as the common va¬ 
riety. 
Found in woods at Stouts-hill, Gloucestershire, by the Rev. Mr. Baker. E.) 
(2) Leaf wing-cleft. 
A. Ce'terach. Leaves wing-cleft: lobes alternate, confluent, blunt. 
Bull. 383— yE.Bot. 1244. E.)— Wale. — Gars. 212— Barr. 1051. 1052. 1043. 
1044— Tourn. 3LS—Trag. 551—Dod. 468— Lob. 470. 1 ; Ic. i. 807. 1— 
Ger. Em. 1140. 1—Park. 1046,/ 1 —Ger. 978. 1 —Matth. a. C. B. 646. 1 
— H. Ox. xiv. 2, row 3, f. 4— Blackw. 216— J. B. iii. 749— Bolt. 12— 
Matth. 899— Cam. Epit. 640. 
* (When bruised, the whole plant emits a nauseous scent. To the taste it is mucilaginous 
and acrid; and though not possessed of the powers ascribed to it by the older writers, not 
only for relieving the spleen and liver, but “ all other griefes proceeding of oppila- 
tions or stoppings whatsoever;” perhaps Ray’s recommendation of it, from his own ex¬ 
perience, as a good medicine in convulsive disorders, may deserve attention. E.) 
