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Noble Xi-yerwort, or He pa- 



T I C A. 



HEPATICA NOBILIS. 



Common Garden Flower, which makes it 

 veiy pretty Figure in Spring, and is little 

 regarded, except as an Ornament in our Borders ; 

 though it is not without conliderable Virtues. 

 The JLeaves are fupported each on a fingle Foot- 

 Stalk, white, ilendcr, 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 aiid blue, with a greenifli Head in 

 the Middle, the Root is fibrous. 



An Infufion of the Leaves of this Plant is good 

 againft Obftrudions of the Liver and Spleen; 



it works gently by Urine, and is a good Medicine 

 \x\ the Jaundice, taking it in Time. 



Green Liverwort. 

 LICHEN VULGARIS. 



A Common low Plant, compofed wholly of 

 •*^ Leaves, which fpread themfelves on the 

 Ground, and are of a beautiful green Colour; 

 Authors refer it to the Kinds of Mofs. It grows 

 on old Walls, in Wells, and other damp Places/ 

 The Leaves are oblong, blunt, and thin, they 

 fpread one over another and take Root, where- 

 ever they touch the Ground. They often cover 

 a Space of a Foot or more in one Clufter. This 

 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 (len- 

 der Stalks, on the Tops of which ftand imperfeft 



Flowers, 



