S38 HEPATICA. ^°- ^^■ 



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HEPATIGA TRILOBA. 



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English Name— COMMON LIVERWORT, 



French Name — Hepatique trilobe. 

 German Name — Leberkkaut. 

 Officinal Name — Hepatica. 

 Vulgar Names — Livervveed, Trefoil, Noble Li- 

 verwort. 



Synonym — Jlnernone h-epntica Linn. &c. 



Authorities — Linn. Schoepf, Pursh; Toney? 



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Eaton, Hereford, &c. 



Genus HepAtica — Involucre caliciforn), near th« 

 flower, persistent, threeparted. Perigone coroHlform, 

 with six to nine oblong petals. Many short Stamina. 

 Many pistils. Styles short. Seeds awnless achenes. 



Species H. triloba — ^Leaves radical, cordate, three 

 lobed, lobes entire, petioles and scapes equal in length 

 and hairy, scapes uniflora, flowers drooping before the 



anthesis and pilose. 

 ^ DESCRIPTION— Root perennial, fibrose, fibres 



long fasciculate, brown. Leaves all radical, on long 

 hairy petioles, somewhat leathery and partly persis- 

 tent in winter, base cordate, divided into three equal 

 entire lobes, rounded,, obtuse or acute, with obtuse 

 or acute sinuses, nearly smooth, mottled of olivaceous 

 and purplish above, glaucous and purplish beneath. 

 i>ttveral scapes equal in length to the petiols, upright. 



