HEPATICA. 



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Classification. — The plant represented in Fig. X, as 

 named in onr botanies generally, is Hepatica triloba {hepar, 

 liver, iriloba, 3-lobed). The early Linnaean name (probably 

 the true one), was Anemone Hepatica. Our specimens may 

 be of the other species, H. acutiloba. In the former the leaf- 

 lobes and bracts are obtuse ; in the latter, acute. As we have 

 seen, Hepatica is closely related to Ranunculus, especially in 



