Usage examples (15)

• Tree-fern and hart's-tongue show verdant fronds, flushed with autumnal red or gold, and a dense growth of starry flowers suggests a bed of many-coloured tulips.
• Upon the banks hart's-tongue was coming up fresh and green, and the early orchis was in flower.
• The hart's-tongue ferns, matted all over the steep banks, hang down like the tongues of thirsty dogs.
• Near by, within a palisade, is the old castle well, with hart's-tongue ferns growing on the damp brick lining.