hartstongue

The rich woodland scenery, the green pastures with their large wild fences now laden with wild roses; the shady lanes, whose banks will soon be covered with the long, bright green fronds of the hartstongue, and the delicate drooping trichomanes; the fine timber, and the picturesque farmhouses with their thatched roofs nestling in the valleys -- all tend to give a home-like English air to the scenery of Normandy.

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886. Various

Indeed, this garden was her joy, and the flowers that grew there were for the most part of her own planting -- primroses, snowdrops, violets, and, in the shadow of the trees, long hartstongue ferns.

Fair Margaret Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Here grow the tall foxgloves, bending a purple head in the heat of noon; here the great bells of the convolvulus hang thick from lofty hedges, massing their pink and white against dark green leafage; here amid shadowed undergrowth trail the long fronds of lustrous hartstongue; wherever the eye falls, profusion of summer's glory.

In the Year of Jubilee George Gissing 1880

In the shadow of bushes near at hand hartstongue abounded, with fronds hanging to the length of an arm.

In the Year of Jubilee George Gissing 1880

I would have taken Senator Hoar down into a scowl and we should both have come back with our clothes spoiled, and our arms full of the splendid hartstongue ferns that cover the sides and edges of the ravine.

Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 George Frisbie Hoar 1865

In silence he handed her down the rocky steps, plunging deeper among the hazels and rowan-trees; then pausing, he turned aside the luxuriant leaves of a tuft of hartstongue, and showed her, cut on a stone, veiled both by the verdure and the form of the rock, the letters --

Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862