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Show HART’S-TONGUE. ASPLENIUM SCOLOPENDRUM. Class XXIV. Cryptogamia. Order I. Filices. Fissent. GEN. Cuar. Fructification in straight scatteredlines. Spec. Cuar. Segments roundish, crenate. Class XXTIUI. Cryptogamia. Order I. Filices. Essent, Gen. Car. Same as thelast. Serc.Cuar. Leaves simple, cordate-tongue-shaped, entire: Stipe hirsute. ii DESCRIPTION. A smatt plant, six or eight inches in height. numerous, pinnated. a Leaves upright, he ribs are of a black colour. Pinne in pairs, large, roundish, siightly toothed, sessile, about twenty pairs to a leaf, gradually diminishing towards the top. DESCRIPTION. Leaves long, tongue-shaped, pointed, entire, often a foot long, of a shining green, waved at the margin. HISTORY. Cowmon in the country, and found usually on old walls and rocks in shady situations. MEDICAL VIRTUE. HISTORY: Common onshady rocks, old walls, and producing its fructification in August and September. The ancients considered this as a laxative, andfixed upon two drachms as a dose to clear away the black bile ; and Boerhaave advises to take one or two drachms of the juice of the spleenwort for the cure of hypochondriac affections, which generally proceed from inspissated mucus, or bile. Idiots are said to have had their reason returned by occasionally employing this plant. MEDICAL VIRTUE. Tt has anastringent quality, and is often used made into ointment for burns and scalds, andforthe piles; and has been taken internally, infused in red wine, in hemoptoe, diarrhea, and dysentery, |