Ceterach officinarum Willd.

Asplenium scolopendrium L.

Schubvaren (NL), Scaly spleenwort (UK), Asplenoin, Scolopendron, Pterix (Gr), Asplenum, Asplenium (Lat), Ceterach (apot), Steenvaren (Br).

Tongvaren (NL), Hartstongue fern (UK), Phyllitis (Gr, Lat), Scolopendria, Lingua ceruina (apot), steen hertstonghe (ND).

Little was known on the reproduction of ferns in this time and many myths and stories existed. It would take another hundred years before this aspect of Cryptogams was unraveled. Only then it was possible to distinguish properly between the different ferns species.