Sea spleenwort and masses of samphire grew on the cliffs to his right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference

Archie because he would look on level ground for her maiden-hair spleenwort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

In regard to the last member of the group, the narrow-leaved spleenwort, there is more doubt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference

Still other species of ferns are known to hybridize more or less, as we saw in the case of Scott's spleenwort.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference

Localized species of note include red broomrape Orobanche alba, sea spleenwort Asplenium marinum and oyster plant Mertemsia maritima.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast, United Kingdom] Reference

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).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference

This rare and delicate little plant bears a rather close resemblance to the maidenhair spleenwort, which, however, has dark stipes instead of green.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country diary: Tamar Valley] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

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).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference

I want to show you a strange sort of spleenwort that I gathered this morning. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Born in Exile] Reference

Tufted spleenwort, primroses, and broom tangle the hedges under boughs of hornbeam and sweet-chestnut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference

"That is Hart's Tongue, you know -- that is wall spleenwort, and that is the other kind; handsome things are they not?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Helmet, Volume II] Reference

"That is Hart's Tongue, you know – that is wall spleenwort, and that is the other kind; handsome things are they not?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Helmet] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monitress Merle] Reference

Again, the minute forked spleenwort of Arthur Seat, which rarely exceeds three inches in length, is of the same family as those tree-ferns of New Zealand and Tasmania that rise to an elevation of from twenty to thirty feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference

In the flagstones of Orkney there occurs, though very rarely, a minute vegetable organism, which I have elsewhere described as having much the appearance of one of our smaller ferns, such as the maidenhair-spleenwort, or dwarf moonwort.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference

There is also polypody, spleenwort, and about twenty other different sort of ferns, entirely peculiar to the place, with several sorts of mosses, either rare, or produced only here; besides a great number of other plants, whose uses are not yet known, and subjects fit only for botanical books.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time] Reference

Scott's spleenwort, on the dedication page, is reprinted from Clute's "Our.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference

"I know some people who always wear gloves when they turn over a portfolio of prints," Mrs Morgan said, coming to the Curate's side to protect her book if possible, "and these require quite as much care;" and she had to endure a discussion upon the subject, which was still more trying to her feelings, for Mr Leeson pretended to know about ferns on the score of having a Wardian case in his lodgings (which belonged to his landlady), though in reality he could scarcely tell the commonest spleenwort from a lycopodium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Perpetual Curate] Reference

That is the forked spleenwort.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Helmet] Reference

A branch of healing spleenwort in his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Playful Poems] Reference

Green spleenwort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unpleasant-sounding plants I learned about today, with a preemptive Simpsons quote.] Reference

"That is the forked spleenwort.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Helmet, Volume II] Reference

"Is that maiden-hair spleenwort?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

While spleenwort, and whiteweed, and hyssop, and sage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Snow-Drop] Reference

Among the herbs, at least two of the ferns -- the true maidenhair and the spleenwort -- are assigned places among plants of such high standing as sage, mint, and rosemary: among the flowers, monocotyledons, such as the iris, the tulip, and the lily, appear among dicotyledons, such as the rose, the violet, the sunflower, and the auricula: and among trees we find the palms placed between the plum and the olive; and the yew, the fir, and the juniper, flanked on one side by the box and the holly, and on the other by the oak.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference