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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference

Upon the banks hart's-tongue was coming up fresh and green, and the early orchis was in flower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference

The hart's-tongue ferns, matted all over the steep banks, hang down like the tongues of thirsty dogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carette of Sark] Reference

Near by, within a palisade, is the old castle well, with hart's-tongue ferns growing on the damp brick lining.    From Wordnik.com.  [What to See in England] Reference

Green thorn bushes filled the chinks and made a wall to the well, and the long narrow hart's-tongue streaked the face of the cliff.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Fields] Reference

A little way on they found a tiny spring, bubbling out of the hillside and falling into a rough stone basin surrounded by draggled hart's-tongue ferns, now hardly green at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Phoenix and the Carpet] Reference

And it might be that the ferns would be dead -- all but the hart's-tongue; which, though moisture-loving, can yet, like the athlete, train itself to endure and abide thirsty and unslaked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference

The wagonette swung round into a side road, and we curved upward through deep lanes worn by centuries of wheels, high banks on either side, heavy with dripping moss and fleshy hart's-tongue ferns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hound of the Baskervilles] Reference

The wagonette swung round into a side road, and we curved upwards through deep lanes worn by centuries of wheels, high banks on either side, heavy with dripping moss and fleshy hart's-tongue ferns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hound of the Baskervilles]

Hildegarde's keen eyes roved among the green masses, seeking the different varieties, -- botrychium, lady-fern, delicate hart's-tongue; behind these, great nodding ostrich-ferns, bending their stately plumes over their lowlier sisters; beyond these again a tangle of brake running up into the woods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls] Reference

Especially above, where the large boughs parted, there was quite a hanging garden, in which wild raspberries and hart's-tongue ferns throve, and even a little mistletoe had taken root, and grew gracefully in the old willow branches, which were reflected in the dark water beneath when the wind blew the chickweed into the corner of the pool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen] Reference

This front-door opened on the little steep triangle formed by the meeting of lane and road, while the back-door led into a long but narrow garden running along the road, but raised some feet above it; the bank was kept up by a rough stone wall crested with stuck-up snap-dragon and valerian, and faced with rosettes and disks and dills of houseleek, pennywort, and hart's-tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erema — My Father's Sin] Reference

The air was filled with the faint cool smell of ferns, and on every side were great masses of them, -- clumps of splendid ostrich-ferns, waving their green plumes in stately pride; miniature forests of the graceful brake, beneath whose feathery branches the wood-mouse and other tiny forest-creatures roamed secure; and in the very road-way, trampled under old Nancy's feet, delicate lady-fern, and sturdy hart's-tongue, and a dozen other varieties, all perfect in grace and sylvan beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queen Hildegarde] Reference

The road ran through a cutting, sunless, cooled by many small springs of water trickling down the rock-face, green with draperies of the hart's-tongue and common polypody ferns; and emerged again into warmth upon a curve of the hillside facing southward down the coombe, and almost close under the second span of the viaduct, where the tall trestles plunged down among the tree-tops like gigantic stilts, and the railway left earth and spun itself across the chasm like a line of gossamer, its criss-crossed timbers so delicately pencilled against the blue that the whole structure seemed to swing there in the morning breeze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Merry-Garden and Other Stories] Reference

Liverwort, marigold, sorrel, hart's-tongue, and sage.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2] Reference