LIVERWORT

any plant of the class Marchantiopsida. Mosses and liverworts together comprise the division Bryophyta, primitive green land plants (see moss; plant); some of the earliest land plants resembled modern liverworts. In contrast to mosses, most liverworts grow prostrate and consist of a flattened, branching (but undifferentiated) green structure, the thallus; other liverworts produce leafy stems, which are flattened and usually prostrate. The ancients believed that 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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books on: Liverwort  - 93 results

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Minnesota Plant Life
Book by Conway MacMillan; 1899
Subjects: Botany--Minnesota
Umbrella-liverworts. Related to the cone-headed liverwort is the umbrella-liverwort...in the cone- headed liverwort, and after the spermaries...elongates. Purple-edged liverworts. In still another liverwort related to the two described...
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Plants Invade the Land: Evolutionary and Environmental Perspectives
Book by Patricia G. Gensel, Dianne Edwards; Columbia University Press, 2001
Subjects: Paleobotany, Plants--Evolution
...acetolyzed sporangial epidermis of the liverwort Lophocolea were incompletely preserved...the complex thalloid lineage of liverworts Lewis et al. 1997 , the hydrolyzed...Conocephalum , representative of derived liverwort lineages Lewis et al. 1997 , may...
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The World of Plant Life
Book by Clarence J. Hylander; Macmillan, 1939
Subjects: Botany--United States
...technically known as the Musci. THE LIVERWORTS The natural home of the Liverworts and Scale-Mosses is in the...have little HEPATICAE Horned Liverwort upper left , Marchantia lower...which they appear dead. A Liverwort is a flat ribbon-like plant...
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Managing Environmental Pollution
Book by Andrew Farmer; Routledge, 1997
...1989b . Lead accumulation and location in the shoots of the liverwort Scapania undulata L. Dum. in stream water at Greenside Mine...H. and Uehiro, T. 1983 . Assimilation of mercury in the liverwort Jungermannia vulcanicola Steph. in an acid stream Kashiranashigawa...
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Ecology of Inland Waters and Estuaries
Book by George K. Reid; Reinhold, 1961
Subjects: Ecology, Estuaries, Freshwater Biology
...BRYOPHYTES PHYLUM BRYOPHYTA LIVERWORTS AND MOSSES The bryophytes...Of these, about 12 are liverworts class Hepaticae , which are...Riccia is a slender, branched liverwort usually floating individually...Jungermannia is a leafy liverwort found in streams and slow...
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journal articles on: Liverwort  - 10 results

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Frederic Morton Chamberlain's 1904 Survey of Arizona Fishes, with Annotations
Journal article by W. L. Minckley; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 41, 1999
Subjects: Aquatic biology--Research, Arizona--Natural history, Fishes, Fresh-water--Research, Freshwater fishes--Research, United States. Fish and Wildlife Service--History
...benthic fires Chara skunkgrass columbine columbine liverwort liverwort(s) Mimulus monkey flower moss true moss(es...Charales, Chara spp. columbine Aqualegia spp. liverwort Marchantiomorpha Mimulus Mimulus spp. moss Bryopsida...
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Biodiversity and Terrestrial Ecology of a Mid-cretaceous, High-latitude Floodplain, Alexander Island, Antarctica
Journal article by H. J. Falcon-Lang, D. J. Cantrill, C. J. Nichols; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 158, 2001
Subjects: Alexander Island, Biological diversity, Ecology, Geology, Trees
...laterally extensive liverwort mats of Marchantites...Podocarpites), and liverworts (KG. 4741 and KG...Dicotylophyllum) and liverworts (Marchantites...substrates covered by dense liverwort mats (Marchantites...Rare marchantiod liverworts formed a ground layer...
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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
...Hans Grossel in his German versions used Leberblumchen -- liverwort ("any plant of the Hepaticae") -- but I doubt if the said wanderer would exclaim about liverwort with any hope of the words conjuring up feelings associated with...
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Evolution of Class Iii Homeodomain-leucine Zipper Genes in Streptophytes
Journal article by Sandra K. Floyd, Christopher S. Zalewski, John L. Bowman; Genetics, Vol. 173, 2006
Subjects: Evolutionary biology, Flowers & plants, Genes, Tissue
...hornwort Phaeoceros carolinianus; the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha; and the algae...three distinctlineages corresponding to liverworts, hornworts, and mosses. Vascular plant...to euphyllophytes. The ancestors of liverwort, hornwort, moss, lycophyte, and vascular...
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The Honorable George Percy, Premier Chronicler of the First Virginia Voyage
Journal article by Philip L. Barbour; Early American Literature, Vol. 6, 1971
Subjects: American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, American Literature--Revolutionary Period, 1775-1783
They have a certaine herbe called Weysake, like Liverwort, which they chew and spit into poisoned wounds, that are thereby healed in foure and twenty houres. In finding out their medicinable...
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Garden Anywhere
Magazine article by Sharon Cohoon, Kathleen N. Brenzel; Sunset, Vol. 224, March 2010
Subjects: Flowers & plants, Gardens & gardening, Greenhouses
...tormod hellwig.com or 360/582-1060) Atop this roof: Oregon beaked moss (Eurhynchium oreganum), tree-ruffle liverwort (Porella navicularis), frog pelt lichen (Peltigera neopolydactyla), and planted licorice fern (Polypodium glycyrrhiza...
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10 Things to Do
Magazine article by David Gacs; Americas Quarterly, Vol. 5, Winter 2011
Subjects: Beavers, National parks, Yachts
...town, El Parque Omora is known as the miniature forest of Cape Horn. It houses 5 percent of the worlds moss, lichen and liverwort species. The best way to admire the microfl ora is through what locals refer to as "tourism with a hand lens." 3 Explore...
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Wild Encounters: No Matter What Expectations You May Have about the Galapagos Islands, the Reality of a Visit Will Surpass Them
Magazine article by Corinne Hitching; Geographical, Vol. 74, June 2002
Subjects: Galapagos Islands--Description and travel, Voyages and travels--Galapagos Islands
...the other islands, the highlands of Santa Cruz are damp and lush with an abundance of evergreen trees and plants--moss, liverwort, bromeliad and vines--and are one of the main haunts of the giant tortoise. The hunt for these beasts took place in the...


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newspaper articles on: Liverwort  - 14 results

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Curiouser and Curiouser; Gripping: Common or Spectacled Caiman and South American False Coral Snake, C1705 -10 , by Maria Sibylla Merian Thos: Purple Crocuses, Cloth of Gold Crocus, Liverwort, Poppy Anemones and Jay, C 1650-82, by Alexander Marshal. Great Hogfish, C 1752, by Mark Catesby Surreal before Its Time: Head of the Flamingo and Gorgonian, C 1752, by Mark Catesby
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 14, 2008
Subjects: Snakes
...and South American False Coral Snake, C1705 -10 , by Maria Sibylla Merian Thos: Purple Crocuses, Cloth of Gold Crocus, Liverwort, Poppy Anemones and Jay, C 1650-82, by Alexander Marshal. Great Hogfish, C 1752, by Mark Catesby Surreal before Its...
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Nip That Cold Snap in the Bud; Don't Be a Prune When It Comes to Cutting Back
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 8, 2006
...surfaced area under your rotary clothes line so you dont turn the grass to mush. If you have squishy patches of algae or liverwort in the lawn, prong the area over with a fork and sprinkle garden grit or sand thinly on top. You will need to reseed the...
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Banning Gas-Powered Boats on Waldo Lake a 'No-Brainer'
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), January 2, 2010
Subjects: Boats, Boats and boating, Cigarette boats
...waters are chemically similar to distilled water. Bryophytes (liverworts and mosses) cover much of the lake bottom due to exceptional water clarity; at least one plant (the liverwort Jamesoniella autumnalis) is globally rare, currently found...
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Invasive Alien Plants Are Costing Economy Pounds 3bn; CALL TO MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO GROW SOME SPECIES IN WILD
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), March 7, 2011
...are spreading through natural seed dispersal and the fly-tipping of garden waste. It says populations of the vulnerable liverwort green blackwort at Lydstep Head in Pembrokeshire have declined after encroachment by small-leaved cotoneasters. But National...
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Little Housefly Big Winner in Photo Contest
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), February 26, 2006
Subjects: Computer peripherals industry
...competition because he knows its something with which everyone is familiar. Unlike, say, the kidney section of a mouse. Or liverwort plant spores. "But nobodys ever looked at (a housefly) like theyre looking at a German shepherd," Krebs said in a telephone...
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encyclopedia articles on: Liverwort  - 2 results

 
 
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Liverwort
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LIVERWORT any plant of the class...Marchantiopsida. Mosses and liverworts together comprise the...ancients believed that liverworts could cure diseases...is frequently called liverwort. Liverworts are classified in the...
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Plant
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...divisions of algae and fungi (once considered plants). The subkingdom Embryobionta is composed of two groups: the bryophytes ( liverwort and moss ), division Bryophyta , which have no vascular tissues, and a group consisting of seven divisions of plants that...


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