单词 | hepatica |
释义 | hepatican. Botany. 1. A subgenus or section of the genus Anemone; esp. the common spring-flowering Anemone ( Hepatica) triloba, a native of continental Europe, cultivated in Britain, the three-lobed leaves of which were fancied to resemble the liver. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > anemones anemone1548 rose parsley1548 windflower1551 agrimony1578 hepatica1578 liverwort1578 noble agrimony1578 noble liverwort1578 pasque flower1578 Coventry bells1597 flaw-flower1597 herb trinity1597 pulsatilla1597 emony1644 wood-anemone1657 Robin Hood1665 poppy anemone1731 Alpine anemone1774 liverleaf1820 Japan anemone1847 Pennsylvania wind flower1869 smell fox1892 prairie smoke1893 prairie crocus1896 St. Brigid anemone1902 Japanese anemonec1908 Spanish marigold- 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xl. 58 The leaues of Hepatica are broade, and diuided into three partes..Amongst the leaues groweth fayre azured or blew floures, euery one growing vpon a single stemme. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xl. 59 [It] may be called in English Hepatica, Noble Agrimonie, or Three leafe Lyuerwurte. 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 59 in Sylva January..Flowers in Prime..Hepatica, Prim-roses, Laurus-tinus. 1803 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener 688/1 Hepaticas, single white, single blue, single red, Double red, Double Blue. 1882 Garden 11 Mar. 155/1 The fine single blue American Hepatica..is a stronger and more vigorous species. 2. The old name in the herbalists for Common Liverwort, Marchantia polymorpha, a lichen-like plant which creeps over wet rocks and damp ground, rooting from the lower surface of the leaf. Hence plural Hepaticae, a group of Cryptogams allied to the Mosses, containing plants which have no operculum, and as a rule possess elaters; of which the Common Liverwort is an example.The group was proposed and named by the French botanist Adanson (Familles des Plantes, 1763). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > lichen > [noun] > liverwort liverwortOE hepatica1548 lichen1601 Marchantia1754 hepatic1939 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. E.i Lichen is called in englise Liuerwurte, in duch Steinliberkraut, in french Hepatique, the Poticaries cal it Hepaticā. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lxx. 411 This herbe is called in Greeke λειχὴν: in Latine Lichen: in Shoppes Hepatica..in Englishe Liuerwurt and Stone Liuerwort. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 349 The Cryptogamia Class..may be divided into the following orders or assemblages:—1. Miscellaneæ; 2. Filices; 3. Musci; 4. Hepaticæ; 5. Algæ; 6. Fungi. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 363 Hepaticæ..Female fructifications inclosed in a veil which splits open at the top, and discharges the capsule. 1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) ii. i. 308 The little group of Hepaticae or Liverworts which is intermediate between Lichens and Mosses. 1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 273 His vast collection of mosses and hepaticæ from the valley of the Amazons. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1548 |
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