Hepatica Triloba

(Liiierwort.)

BoTANiCAi DBScmPTiON. — The Hepatica Americana of De Condolle it

the Hej^atica triloba of Wildeoow. This is a perennial plant, the root of

wMth ^.onsists of numerous atroag fibres. The kaws are all radical, on

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long, hairy petioles, with three ovate, obtuse or rounded entire lohes, smooth eyergreen, ooriaceoua, eoi-date at base, the new ones appearmg later tlian the flowers.

The fiow&rs appear almost as soon as the anow leaves the ground In the Spring. They are single, generally blue, sometimea white and flesh color, and are nodding at first, then erect, on hairy scapes three or four inches long; by cultivation they become double; involucre simple, composed of three entire, ovate, obtuse bracts, resembling a calyx, situated a little below tlie fiower. Oalyx of two or three rows of petaloid sepals; atarMita awl- shaped, miffl^rg elliptic, aehema ovate, acute, awnless.

Eepatica. aeutiloha differs in having the leaves with three ovate and pointed lobes, or sometimes Ave lobes ; leaves of the involucre or acutish. OFPtciNAt Prepabations.— Tincture of tJie whole plant; dilutions and ti n el ure- triturations.

AUALoeBEa. — Oalctvrea earhoniea (?), Glyeyrrhiza, Hepwr sulphur (f), Pkoaphorui (f), Stannum (?').

Eyes somewhat sensitive to light; itching and swelling,

slightly aggravated in the morning.

Bloody miicns blown from the left nostril for three or four

days in succession. Soreness at the opening into the nostrils.

Throat, " Free and easy expectoration ; the rough, scraping. irritation and tickling seneation in tlie throat and fauces disappears, as also the sensation about the epiglottis and larynx, aa of particles of food remaining (following an attack of hfemoptysis), {Kimball.) "Accumulation of thick, viscid and tenacious phlegm, in- ducing frequent hawking and disposition to hawk, disap- pears. {Hale, Ki/mball^