Dymock observed in Goa that this plant could be gotten in all the shops of the herb-venders, and that it was widely used as an alterative in mild fevers in combination with "Hydrocotyle Asiatica and adiantum lunulatum."
"The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines"
T. H. Pardo de Tavera
In the interstices there used to be a great deal of adiantum nigrum-black maidenhair, but it has disappeared.
"John Keble's Parishes"
Charlotte M Yonge
59. adiantum caudatum, Linn.
"Southern Arabia"
Theodore Bent Mabel Bent