HEPATICA

hĭpătˈĭkə or liverleaf, any plant of the genus Hepatica of the family Ranunculaceae (buttercup family), low, woodland, spring wildflowers of the north temperate zone, popular for wild gardens. The delicate blossoms, of shades of lavender, pink, and blue, may appear while there is still snow; the three-lobed leaves persist through winter. Hepaticas were formerly used as a domestic remedy. Although often called liverworts, they are unrelated to the primitive plants commonly called liverworts that are classified with the mosses in the division Bryophyta. Hepatica is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Ranunculales, family Ranunculaceae.

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books on: Hepatica  - 151 results

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Charles Burchfield's Journals: The Poetry of Place
Book by J. Benjamin Townsend, Charles Ephraim Burchfield; State University of New York Press, 1993
Subjects: Burchfield, Charles Ephraim--1893-1967--Diaries, Painters--United States--Diaries
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Treadmill to Oblivion
Book by Fred Allen; Little, Brown and Company, 1954
Subjects: Allen, Fred--1894-1956
...This time he had news of a new sponsor. Sal Hepatica was going on the air. Sal Hepatica knew no season. As soon as Harry and I could...the microphones with a new program, the Sal Hepatica Revue. I remember our first performance. The...
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Naturalist's Guide to the Americas
Book by Victor E. Shelford; Williams & Wilkins, 1926
Subjects: Natural History, Nature Conservation
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On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio
Book by John Dunning; Oxford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Radio Programs--United States--Dictionaries
...Wednesdays at 9. Summer substitute for The Fred Allen Show. Sal Hepatica. Oct. 8, 1942-June 27, 1947, NBC. 30m, Thursdays at 7:30...Wednesdays at 9. Summer substitute for Eddie Cantor. Sal Hepatica. CAST: Alan Young as himself, a bashful young man he really...
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Radio Active: Advertising and Consumer Activism, 1935-1947
Book by Kathy M. Newman; University of California Press, 2004
Subjects: Boycotts--United States--History, Consumer Behavior--United States--History, Consumer Protection--United States--History, Radio Advertising--United States--History
...Fred Allen show, a laxative called Sal Hepatica, the ad announcer explains to Fred when...even going to take much time for Sal Hepatica. This simple statement betrays the...for us to present Fred Allen is Sal Hepatica, the mineral salt laxative. Now whenever...
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journal articles on: Hepatica  - 9 results

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Short Lines, Long Journeys: a Note on Translation
Journal article by Robin Fulton; World Literature Today, Vol. 64, 1990
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
...would not do, for blasippa is Anemone hepatica. Now, would any English-speaking wanderer...has come -- Ive just seen millions of hepatica!"? Hans Grossel in his German versions...Leberblumchen -- liverwort ("any plant of the Hepaticae") -- but I doubt if the said wanderer...
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Palisot de Beauvois on the Americans
Journal article by Charles Coulston Gillispie; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 96, 2006
Subjects: American history, States
...completed a classification of these two families of the Linnaean cryptogamia (the other five being algae, mushrooms, lichens, hepatica, and ferns). His reason for publishing now is his disagreement with Hedwigs method, which was signaled by the main word in...
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The Mind as Lord and Master: Wordsworth and Wallace Stevens (1983)
Journal article by Jonathan Wordsworth; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 37, 2006
Subjects: American poets--Comparative analysis, English poets--Comparative analysis, Stevens, Wallace--Comparative analysis, Wordsworth, William--Comparative analysis
...A composing as the body tires, a stop To see hepatica, a stop to watch A definition growing certain and...
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N-Acetyltransferase 2 Polymorphism in Patients with Spanish Toxic Oil Syndrome
Journal article by Jose M. Ladero; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 110, 2002
...polymorphisms of drug metabolism. Annu Rev Pharmacol Toxicol; 37:269-296 (1997). (4.) Ladero JM, Arrojo A, Gilsanz V. Acetilacion hepatica en la poblacion espanola in Spanish. Gastroenterologia y Hepatologia 2:236-240 (1979). (5.) Price-Evans DA. N-Acetyltransferase...
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Los Trabajos del Biografo Cervantino (1)
Journal article by Daniel Eisenberg; Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, Vol. 23, 2003
...concluye que si sufrio de diabetes, explicacion mas probable de la intensa sed que padecia, pero fue secundaria a una cirrosis hepatica. (27) Francisco Diaz, Tratado nuevamente impreso de todas las enfermedades de los rinones, vejiga, y carnosidades de la verga...
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magazine articles on: Hepatica  - 8 results

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Sweet Grass and Sassafras: African Americans Head for the Mountains
Magazine article by Patricia Mines; American Visions, Vol. 15, August 2000
Subjects: African Americans--Conduct of life, Sassafras Ridge, Tennessee--Social aspects
...plants (many with medicinal properties). Springtime delivers a delicious variety of flowers--bloodroot, trout lilies, pale blue hepatica-that blanket the meadows. Deep rosy pink lady-slippers grow under the pine trees, and trailing arbutus grows on open banks...
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2001-2002 Board of Directors
Magazine article; American Theatre, Vol. 19, December 2002
Subjects: AT and T Corp.--Public relations, Arts fund raising, Communications industry, Telecommunications services industry--Public relations, Theater companies--Finance, Theater companies--Management, Theatre Communications Group--Management, Theatre Communications Group--Membership, Theatre Communications Group--Officials and employees
...Playwrights grant recipients. * Eliza Anderson--for a residency at Trinity Repertory Company (Providence, R.I.) to complete Hepatica Bloom, the second of a two-part series focusing on New England. Anderson will also participate in Trinity Reps artist-in-residency...
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On the Flyways
Magazine article by Robert H. Mohlenbrock; Natural History, Vol. 111, July 2002
Subjects: Geographic profiles, National parks, Point Pelee National Park
...black walnut, chestnut oak, rough-leaved dogwood. Wildflowers: cut-leaved toothwort, wood anemone, white trillium, roundlobe hepatica, bloodroot, dutchmans-breeches, columbine, false Solomons-seal, waterleaf, blue phlox, wild bergamot, Canada anemone, tall...
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The Short Reign of Fred Allen: Jack Benny's Comic Rival Starred in Programs That Prefigured "Weekend Update," "News of the Weird," and the Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Magazine article by Dennis Drabelle; American Scholar, Vol. 76, Summer 2007
Subjects: Allen, Fred--Biography, Radio hosts--Biography
...will gladly scamper through the fresh greens to reach this delicious dressing." In quick succession for Allen came the Sal Hepatica Revue followed by an expansion to the hour-long Town Hall Tonight. Allens wit was the funnel through which all manner of nonsense...
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Plant Zoos: What Exactly Is a Botanical Garden For?
Magazine article by Hatsy Shields; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 289, January 2002
Subjects: Botanical gardens, Gardening
...seedling responsibly propagated on site to ensure that the wilderness is left intact. Ill be there in the spring for a pot of hepatica, minuscule star-like deep-blue flowers above green kidney-shaped leaves. I dont know how Ive managed to garden this long without...
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newspaper articles on: Hepatica  - 9 results

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Vet's View
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), October 6, 2007
...likely rise in liver fluke disease. In Britain, fascioliasis disease is caused mainly by a trematode parasite called fasciola hepatica. It can lead to two disease conditions, an acute and a chronic form. Eggs are passed into the faeces of chronically infected...
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A Natural Classroom Spring Has Sprung, the Grass Is Riz; Do You Wonder Where the Birdies (and the Flowers and the Frogs) Is?
Newspaper article by Kathryn Grondin; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 24, 2000
Subjects: Park
...covered in a protective sheath, as well as marsh marigold and hepatica. A walk open to the public will be taken April 16 at Trout...which can be found on the Fox River Trail and other paths; hepatica; and bloodroot, which soon can be found in Norris Woods in...
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Where the Wildflowers Grow ... Just a Little Shade Please
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 23, 2006
...are generally easy, low- maintenance plants for the garden. Hepatica is among the first of spring wildflowers to make an appearance...like jewels as early as March before the foliage emerges. Hepaticas foliage remains attractive throughout the season and turns...
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Fox Valley in 60 Seconds
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 8, 2006
...Wildflower tours offered: Friends of Trout Park will hold guided wildflower walks at 2 p.m. Sunday. Many spring flowers such as hepatica, marsh marigold, bloodroot and trout lily bloom at this time of year. These wildflowers catch the sunlight before the trees...
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The Thorny Problem of Roses with Bare Roots
Newspaper article by Howard Drury; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), March 7, 1999
...Cradley Heath wrote to me about a small blue flower he sent me a sample of. Although crushed, I managed to identify it as a Hepatica. These are members of the anemone family or buttercups that we so often see in a lawn, but instead of being yellow petalled...
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encyclopedia articles on: Hepatica  - 5 results

 
 
1.
Hepatica
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HEPATICA hipat ik or liverleaf, any plant of the genus Hepatica of the family Ranunculaceae ( buttercup family), low...snow; the three-lobed leaves persist through winter. Hepaticas were formerly used as a domestic remedy. Although often...
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Mayflower , in Botany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...In England the hawthorn is called mayflower, or may; in North America the name is used for the trailing arbutus , the hepatica , and an herb ( Maianthemum canadense ) of the family Liliaceae ( lily family). The latter, a common wildflower of northern...
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Liverwort
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...liverworts could cure diseases of the liver, hence the name. They are also called hepatics, and the unrelated flowering plant hepatica is frequently called liverwort. Liverworts are classified in the division Bryophyta, class Marchantiopsida...
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Buttercup
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...anemone , baneberry , bugbane , clematis (one of the few vine genera), columbine , globeflower , hellebore , hepatica , larkspur , love-in-a-mist , marsh marigold (the American cowslip), meadow rue , and peony . The largest genus...
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Fluke
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...adults in the lungs of humans. Liver rot, fatal to sheep and other herbivorous animals, is caused by a liver fluke, Fasciola hepatica, whose larvae encyst in grasses after leaving the snail host. A species of fluke prevalent in lakes of the N central United...


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