





THE BRITISH FERNS. 
THE COMMON HART’S TONGUE FERN. 
SCOLOPENDRIUM VULGARE. 
S. fronds (normal) broadly-linear or oblong strap-shaped, entire, 
attenuate at the apex, cordate at the base, smooth or slightly hair- 
scaly on the midrib beneath; stipes shaggy, with narrow mem- 
branous scales. [Plate LXXXII.] 
SCOLOPENDRIUM VULGARE, Smith, Mem. Acad. Roy. Se. Turin, v. 421, t. 9, fig. 
2 (1790) ; Id., Eng. Bot. xvi. t. 1150 ; Id., Eng. Fl. 2 ed. iv. 801. Symons, 
Synop. Pl. 193 (1798). Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. ii. 14. Curtis, Fl. Lond. 
i t. 119. Mackay, Fl. Hib. 342. Bentham, Handb. Brit. Fl. 634. Lowe, 
Nat. Hist. Ferns, v. t. 55. Hooker & Arnott, Brit. Fl. 7 ed. 590. Babing- 
ton, Man. Brit. Bot. 4 ed. 427. Deakin, Plorigr. Brit. iv. 78, fig. 1598. 
Newman, Hist. Brit. Ferns, 2 ed. 289. Moore, Handb. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 
197 ; Id., Ferns of Gt. Brit. Nature Printed, t. 42, fig. 1 (small). Sowerby, 
Ferns of Gt. Brit. 59, t. 35. Nyman, Syllog. Fl. Europ. 433. 
SCOLOPENDRIUM OFFIOINARUM, Swartz, Schrad. Jowrn. Bot. 1800, ii. 61; Id., 
Syn. Fil. 89. Schkuhr, Krypt. Gew. 78, t. 83. Willdenow, Sp. Plant. v. 
348. Sprengel, Syst. Veg. iv. 69. Presl, Tent. Pterid. 119, t. 4. fig. 15. 
Hooker, Gen. Fil. t. 57 B. Link, Fil. Sp. 86. Koch, Syn. 2 ed. 984. 
Fries, Sum. Veg. 83. Ledebour, Fl. Ross. iv. 522. Fee, Gen. Fil. 209. 
Gray, Bot. North. United States, 626. Mettenius, Fil. Hort. Bot. Lips. 67. 
SCOLOPENDRIUM PHYLLITIS, Roth, Fl. Germ. iii. AT. 
SCOLOPENDRIUM OFFICINALE, De Candolle, Fl. Franç. ii. 552. ` Desvaux, Ann. 
Soc. Lin. Par. vi. 282, 
SCOLOPENDRIUM LINGUA, Cavanilles, Prælect. (Generos y Especies de Plantas 
demostradas en las Lecciones Publicas, 1801), 253. 
SCOLOPENDRIUM MINUS, Fée, Gen. Fil. 209, t. 17 D fig. 3 (a small variety). 
SCOLOPENDRIUM SCOLOPENDRIUM, Newman, Phytol. 1851, App. vi., in obs. 
ASPLENIUM SCOLOPENDRIUM, Linnœus, Sp. Plant. 1537. Bolton, Fil. Brit. 18, 
t. ll. Svensk, Bot. t. 143. 
ASPLENIUM ELONGATUM, Salisbury, Prod. 402. 
BLECHNUM LINGUIFOLIUM, Stokes, Bot. Mat. Med. iv. 616. 
PHYLLITIS ScoLoPENDRIUM, Newman, Hist. Brit. Ferns, 2 ed. 10 ; 3 ed. 2715 
Id., Phytol. 1851, App. vi. 
Var. gymnosorum: fronds narrow, strap-shaped, truncate below, 
lobate at the apex, the margin repand and toothed; veins and sori 
forming an acute angle with the costa; indusium usually abortive. 
Var. sagittifolium : fronds oblong, strap-shaped, attenuate, some- 
times lobate at the apex, the base sagittately lobed. 

