| No | 36 |
| Common Name: | Hearts Tongue Fern |
| Scientific Name: | Asplenium scolopendrium |
| Irish Name: | Creamh na muice fia |
| Family: | Aspleniaceae |
| Habitat: | Found on damp ditches, on limestone walls and in hedgerows |
| Uses: | From Culpeper’s Complete Herbal of 1653: ‘Hart’s-Tongue is much commended against the hard ness and stoppings of the spleen and liver, and against the heat of the liver and stomach, and against the bloody-flux. |
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