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Sally & Brunnera/ now Liverwort

Hello Clyde,
        Liverworts are Hepatica. Here locally we have two species. The sharp lobe
and the little round lobed leaf. There are quite a few species around the
world in Europe and Asia, Japan. There is even an American Hepatica
Association.
        They are so called because of the shape of the lobed leaves resembling a
human liver in outline. Another back to the Doctrine of Signatures.. If a
plant looks like a human part then it was used for treating that part of
the body in medicine. Remember an old cross the counter remedy called Sal
Hepatica (in a brown bottle, of course)? One of the ingredients was extract
of hepatica.
        Gene Bush     Southern Indiana    Zone 6a     Munchkin Nursery
          around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com     http://www.munchkinnursery.com

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> From: Clyde Crockett <CCREDUX@AOL.COM>
> To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SG] Sally & Brunnera
> Date: Wednesday, September 30, 1998 12:16 AM
>
> In a message dated 9/29/1998 10:59:34 PM Central Daylight Time,
> diehlr@INDIANA.EDU writes:
>
> << But I can't think of any
>  more, so please elaborate!
>   >>
> What about lungwort=pulmonarias; spiderwort=tradescantias; and, of
course,
> leopardbane=doronicums. Oops almost forgot the liverworts, but I forget
what
> they are.
> Clyde Crockett z5
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