JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XVII April, 1916 No. 196 
WILD PLANTS NEEDING PROTECTION* 
10. “LrIver-LEAF” (Hepatica Hepatica (L.) Karst.) 
(With Plate CLXIX) 
This most _delightful of early woodland blossoms is rapidly 
and ci ig f the chestnuts which have sheltered them 
for many year: hey prepare their lovely blossoms and silvery 
leave: e year before and are ready to come forth with the 
slightest encouragement, so that in sunny sheltered places they 
hav wn to blossom in December and are generally 
found in this vicinity in April, ae sometime: 
young lea as et ante are covered with long silky white 
hairs f the flowers. The stems are usually 
prostrate and subterranean, densely covered with strong fibrous 
roots, forming an underground rootstock; the growing tip being 
protected by a few aie white seating bracts. The flowers 
[Journal for March (17: 37-53) was issued Apr. 3, 1916] 
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