Ophioglossum

Rare mesophytic species of orchids (Ophrys transhyrcana, Epipactis veratrifolia) and ferns (Ophioglossum vulgatum) found here their refuge from the arid environment.

Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe 2008

Northern Atlantic species include Botiychium lunaria, Ophioglossum vulgatum, Gentianella campestris, Ligusticum scoticum and Sedum rosea with Arctic-Alpine montane species such as Silene acaulis and Saxifraga oppositifolia.

St Kilda (Hirta) National Nature Reserve, United Kingdom 2008

In _Ophioglossum_ the sterile division of the leaf is usually smooth and undivided, and the spore-bearing division forms a sort of spike, and the sporangia are much less distinct.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

(_Ophioglossum_) and the grape ferns (_Botrychium_).

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

_Ophioglossum vulgatum_, with the laconic but sufficient message,

Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877

Adder's Tongue, in others the Hart's Tongue, but Withering gives the Adder's Tongue as the trivial name of the Ophioglossum only.

Notes 1834

From the _Ophioglossum vulgatum_, "'Adder's tongue,' or 'Christ's

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

The Botrychium Lunaria (moonwort) and Ophioglossum (adder’s tongue) are found within 300 yards of the Baths (occasionally intermittent for a season); the Trichomanes (English maidenhair) grows in one solitary place on the inner walls of a closed well, though entirely unknown anywhere else for many miles round.

Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter