216 The U/eful Family Herbal. 
Nospire LiveERwormT, or HEPa- 
TICA. 
HEPATICA NOBILIS. 
A Common Garden Flower, which makes a 
very pretty Figure in Spring, and is little 
regarded, except as an Ornament in our Borders; 
though it is not without confiderable Virtues. 
The Leaves are fupported each on a fingle Foot- 
Stalk, white, flender, and redifh, they are near 
an Inch broad, and of the fame Length, and di- 
vided each into three Parts. The Flowers rife” 
early in the Spring, before thefe appear; they alfo 
ftand fingly on long Foot-Stalks, and are mode- 
rately large and blue, with a greenifh Head in 
the Middle, the Root is fibrous. . 
An Infufion of the Leaves of this Plant is good 
againft Obftructions of the Liver and Spleen; 
it works gently by Urine, and is a good Medicine 
in the Jaundice, taking it in Time. $e 
= — Gr EEN Lr VERWORT. 
LICHEN VULGARIS. 
A Common low Plant, compofed wholly of | 
Leaves, which fpread themfelves on the 
Ground, and are of a beautiful green Colours; 
Authors refer it to the Kinds of Mofs. It grows 
on old Walls, in Wells, and other damp Places. px 
The Leaves are oblong, blunt, and thin, they 
{pread one over another and take Root, where- _ 
ever they touch the Ground. They often cover roe 
a Space of a Foot or more in one Cl as 
is all that is ufually feen of the Plant, but in Spring 
when the Place and the Weather favour, there € 
rife up among thefe Leaves certain long and flen- 
der Stalks, on the Tops of which ftand imperfect 
