Farmsteads and hamlets are protected by old walls from which spleenwort and polypody ferns grow. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Swelling emerald mosses protrude between vertical groves of fern and spleenwort. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A spiral stairway, within concave walls sprouting spleenwort ferns and pennywort, leads to a look-out at the top of the tower bounded by pinnacles and a parapet encrusted with lichen. ❋ Virginia Spiers (2010)
Foxgloves, bright polypody ferns and rushes thrive in the hollows of surface tin workings while wheel pits, settling tanks and buddles associated with the extraction of tin and china clay are masked by scrub, and the derelict structures colonised by spleenwort ferns and moss. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Localized species of note include red broomrape Orobanche alba, sea spleenwort Asplenium marinum and oyster plant Mertemsia maritima. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Nearly all agree that the lady fern, with its variously curved sori, should be placed here, and many others would place the silvery spleenwort in the same genus, partly because of its frequently doubled sori. ❋ George Henry Tilton (N/A)
This rare and delicate little plant bears a rather close resemblance to the maidenhair spleenwort, which, however, has dark stipes instead of green. ❋ George Henry Tilton (N/A)
In regard to the last member of the group, the narrow-leaved spleenwort, there is more doubt. ❋ George Henry Tilton (N/A)
A frond is pinnátifid when its lobes extend halfway or more to the rachis or midvein as in the middle lobes of the pinnátifid spleenwort (Fig. 3). ❋ George Henry Tilton (N/A)
Archie because he would look on level ground for her maiden-hair spleenwort. ❋ Various (N/A)
Still other species of ferns are known to hybridize more or less, as we saw in the case of Scott's spleenwort. ❋ George Henry Tilton (N/A)
Sea spleenwort and masses of samphire grew on the cliffs to his right. ❋ Leslie Moore (N/A)
But aloft, where rich arras once hid the stone, and silver sconces held the torch, Nature now sets her hand, brings spleenwort and harts-tongue, trails the ivy, the speedwell, and the toad-flax .... ❋ Rosalind Northcote (N/A)
The pinnæ of a frond are often pinnátifid when the frond itself is pinnate; and a frond may be pinnate in its lower part and become pinnátifid higher up as in the pinnátifid spleenwort just mentioned (Fig. 3). ❋ George Henry Tilton (N/A)
She recognised many familiar points en route, the bank where the spleenwort grew, the ruined shed, a supposed relic of smuggling days, the barbed-wire fence, the group of elder trees, and the blackberry bank. ❋ Angela Brazil (1907)
I want to show you a strange sort of spleenwort that I gathered this morning. ' ❋ George Gissing (1880)
"That is Hart's Tongue, you know – that is wall spleenwort, and that is the other kind; handsome things are they not?" ❋ Unknown (1864)
Tufted spleenwort, primroses, and broom tangle the hedges under boughs of hornbeam and sweet-chestnut. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)
"That is Hart's Tongue, you know -- that is wall spleenwort, and that is the other kind; handsome things are they not?" ❋ Susan Warner (1852)
