Crossword-Solution: SCOLOPENDRIUM
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| any fern with undivided leaves of the genus Scolopendrium, incl hart's tongue | 1 answer |
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Sentences with SCOLOPENDRIUM (5)
Hill and valley were one sheet of 'innocent snow;' and every twig, leaf, and blade of grass; every spray of the furze and heath; and every broad, drooping leaf of that beautiful fern the hart's tongue (_Scolopendrium vulgare_), was coated with hoar-frost, and sparkling in the rosy sunbeams like the flowers in a magic garden.
This, the _Scolopendrium vulgare_, is also named "Button-hole," "Horse tongue;" and in the Channel Islands "Godshair." The older physicians esteemed it as a very valuable medicine; and Galen gave it for diarrhoea or dysentery.
Among the ferns in which this condition has been observed are the following: _Scolopendrium vulgare_, _Polypodium anomalum_, Hook., _Asplenium Trichomanes_, _Cionidium Moorei_.[189] FOOTNOTES: [147] 'Gard.
Even the common _Scolopendrium vulgare_ occasionally produces small pitchers of this character, as in the varieties named _perafero-corautum_, Moore, and _peraferum_, Woll.[350] In carnations leaves may sometimes be seen from both surfaces, from which project long, sharp-pointed tubular spurs at irregular intervals.
And, in the third place, there are the simple leaves that in general outline resemble, as I have said, the fronds of the recent Hart's-Tongue fern (_Scolopendrium vulgare_), except that their base is lanceolate, not cordate.