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Hepatica   Listen
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Hepatica  n.  (pl. hepaticae)  
1.
(Bot.) A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.
2.
(bot.) Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticae; called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticae, in the Supplement.






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"Hepatica" Quotes from Famous Books



... subsidence of the waters; the splendid eager blossoming of the land into new leaves, lush grasses, an abandon of sweetbrier and hepatica. The air blew soft, a thousand singing birds sprang from the soil, the wild goose cried in triumph. Overhead shone the hot ...
— Conjuror's House - A Romance of the Free Forest • Stewart Edward White

... lucida, were the cardinal flowers, the May flowers, and many more of the treasures of glen and meadow, made welcome with thoughtful study of their wants and habits, much would be done to extend the wealth of our gardens. Let a hepatica be plucked from its home in a rocky crevice where one marvels how it ever contrived to root itself and find subsistence. Transplant it to good soil, give it a little care—it asks none—and it will thrive as it never throve before; proving once again that plants do not ...
— Little Masterpieces of Science: - The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer • Various

... primroses are fully out, there is full morning everywhere on the banks and roadsides and stream-sides, and around the olive roots, a morning of primroses underfoot, with an invisible threading of many violets, and then the lovely blue clusters of hepatica, really like pieces of blue sky showing through a clarity of primrose. The few birds are piping thinly and shyly, the streams sing again, there is a strange flowering shrub full of incense, overturned flowers of ...
— Twilight in Italy • D.H. Lawrence

... me from one of the colleges, suggests that our spring really begins in December, because the "annual cycle of vegetable life" seems to start then. At this time he finds that many of our wild flowers—the bloodroot, hepatica, columbine, shinleaf, maidenhair fern, etc.—have all made quite a start toward the next season's growth, in some cases the new shoot being an inch high. But the real start of the next season's vegetable life in this sense is long before December. It is in late summer, when the ...
— Ways of Nature • John Burroughs

... whole," are general truths, because they express in the form of a statement the general qualities which have been read into the ideas, noun and fraction. When the mind, from a study of particulars, thus either forms a class notion as noun, triangle, hepatica, etc., or draws a general conclusion as, "Air has weight," "Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side," it is said to ...
— Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education • Ontario Ministry of Education



Words linked to "Hepatica" :   arteria hepatica, herb, Marchantia, genus Hepatica, herbaceous plant, hepatic, genus Marchantia, liverleaf, Piranga flava hepatica



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