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place will keep the verdure a long time.’ Coles, A. in E. Prior, p. 
136. 
(2) Antennaria margaritacea, Br. — The ‘ flower being gathered when 
it is yong, may be kept in such manner as it was gathered, I meane 
in such freshnesse and well liking, by the space of a whole yeere after 
in your chest or elsewhere ; wherefore our English women have called 
it Live long, or Live for ever, which name doth aptly answer his effects.’ 
Ger. 517. Park. Parad. 375. 
Liver-grass. Marcliantia polymorpha, L. — E. Bord. (where it is 
employed in domestic medicine), Bot. E. Bord. p. 264. 
Liver-leaf. See Liver-wort (2) and Levers. 
Livers. See Levers. 
Liver-wort. (1) Agrimonia Eupatoria, L. — Lyte, who gives it as a 
translation of the German levercruyt. ‘ Agrimony, an hearbe called 
also Liverwort, because it is good for the liver.’ Minsheu. 
(2) Anemone Hepatica, L. — Park. Theatr., but more usually, as by 
Lyte, called Noble Liverwort, ‘in high Douch edel levercruyt,’ ’hemg a 
‘ soveraigne medicine against the heat and inflammation of the Lyver.’ 
Lyte, p. 59. In Treas. Bot. it is called Liver-leaf, which is its 
popular N. American name. 
(3) Marcliantia polymorpha, L. — Turn. Herb. Lyte, Prior, p. 136. 
‘ The decoction of Liverworte swageth the inflammation of the liver.’ 
Lyte, p. 411. 
The name is given by Tusser (E. D. S., Series D., p. 93) in his list 
of ‘ Seedes and herbes for the Kitchen ; ’ (1) or perhaps (2) is probably 
intended. 
Liver- wort, Ground. Peltidea canina, Ach. — Ger. Prior, p. 136. 
Liverwort, Noble. See Liverwort (2). 
Liverwort, Stone. Marcliantia polymorplia, L. — ^It is named in 
shops Hepatica, yet are there also manie other herbes named Hepatica 
or Liverwoorts, for difference whereof this may fitly be called Hepa- 
tica petraea, or Stone Liverwort, having taken that name from the 
Germaines, who call this Liverwoort Steyn Leher-hraut.’ Ger. 1376. 
Liverwort, Three-leaved. Anemone Hepatica, L. — Lyte. 
Liverwort, Water. Ranunculas aqucdilis, L. — Lyte. ‘ The apothe- 
caries of this time do call it Hepatica and Hepatica aquatica or palus- 
tris ; and do very erroneously use it for Hepatica.’ Id. 
Liverwort, White. Parnassia palnstris, L. — Ger. One of its old 
names was Hepatica alia. 
Liverwort, Wood (from its growth on trees). Sticta pulmonacea, 
Ach. — Ger. 
Lizard Orchis. A modern book-name for Orchis liircina, L. — 
Prior, p. 170. 
Lizzy-run-the-hedge. (1) Galium Aparine, L., ‘when it climbs up 
and amidst our quick fences to the length, perhaps, of twenty feet.’ E, 
Bord. Bot. E. Bord. 
(2) Nepeta Gleclioma, Benth. — Prior, p. 196. 
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