![[Erba segarella. Three types of lingua cervina].](immimage/vermontms2fol10s.jpg)
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Title:
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[Erba segarella. Three types of lingua cervina].
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Subjects:
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Hepaticae
Liverworts
Polypodiaceae
Plants, Medicinal
Herbs
Ferns
Roots (Botany)
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Content Description:
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Four plants, one individual plant and one group of three plants: Plant, top, "Segarella vel epaticha" (class Hepaticae, order Marchantiales, family Monocleaceae) Marchantia polymorpha, Common Liverwort, bears much convoluted and radiating leaflike structures without a stem, green with some brown on edges. Three plants called "lingua cervina Scolopendria," names usually indicating (family Polypodiaceae) Phyllitis scolopendrium (formerly Asplenium scolopendrium or Scolopendrium vulgare), Hart's-tongue fern, Deer's-tongue fern, the first, center of page, a fairly realistic depiction of the latter, a central vertical stem with three tiers of long leaves, green with white roots, the second, middle r., sprouts or leaf-bearing stems arising from a rhizome or stout runner in a vertical row, green with brown and white shading on the roots, the third, bottom r., bears radiating leaves without a stem, green with white roots. Adjacent text: Italian herbal.
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Notes:
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Italy, ca. 1500. Text beginning to left of fourth plant: Lingua cervina alio modo in alio libro. Text above fifth plant: [same as above].
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Medium:
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2 picture on paper: col.
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Location:
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University of Vermont. Library. MS 2. [Italian herbal]. [ca. 1500] -- MS 2 fol. 10.
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Place of publication:
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Italy, ca. 1500
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Published in:
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Salvatore de Ricci, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, Vol. II, p. 2168
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