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FERNS OF NORTH AMERICA. 247
P l a t e X X X I I .— F ig s . i , 2.
SCO LO P EN D R IUM V U L G A R E , S m i t h .
H a r t ’s -T on gue .
S c o l o p e n d r i u m v u l g ä r e : — Root-stock short, erect or
inclined, chaffy as are the short tufted stalks ; fronds simple,
half a foot to a foot and a half long, one to two inches wide,
oblong-ligulate from a deeply cordate and somewhat auricled
base ; veins forked usually twice, veinlets free ; involucres
elongated, placed face to face in pairs on contiguous veinlets.
Scolopendrium vulgare. S m ith , in Mém. Acad. Turin, v., p. 42 1, t. 9,
fig. 2. — M oo re , Nat. Pr. Brit. Ferns, t. xlii. — H o o k e r , Brit.
Ferns, t. 37. — G r a y , Manual, ed. v., p. 662, t. 1 7 .— H o oker
& B a k e r , Syn. Fil., p. 246. — M il d e , Fil. Eur. et Atlant., p. 89.
— L awson, in Canad. Nat., i. (186 4), p. 278.
Scolopendrium officinarum, S wartz, in “ Schraders Jour . ( 18 0 0 ) , ii., p. 61
Syn. F il, p. 89. — S c h k u h r , Krypt. Gew., p. 78, t. 83. — P u r sh ,
FL Am. Sept., ii., p. 6 67.— T o r r e y , FL New York, ii., p. 490.
— G r a y , Manual, ed. i., p. 626, e tc .— J. A. P a in e , in Silliman’s
Journ., Sept. 1866, p. 281.
Asplenium Scolopendrium, L in næ u s , Sp. PL, p. 1537. — P u r sh , Journal
of a Botan. Excursion, p. 64.
H a b . — In the crevices of broken lime-rock, in deep ravines; Onondaga
and Madison Counties, New York, and Owen Sound, Ontario,
Canada; Chiapas, in Mexico; Europe, from the British Islands to the
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