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A brief description of nine species of Hepaticae found in the vicinity of Iowa City by Mary F. Linder, 1886

A brief description of nine species of Hepaticae found in the vicinity of Iowa City by Mary F. Linder, 1886, Page 20

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[page]18.[/page] to cool and cleanse it; and helpeth the inflamations in any part and the yellow jaundice likewise. Being bruised and boiled in small beer and drunk, it cooleth the heat of the liver and kidneys." This opinion is still held in some obscure out-of-the-way places, where the plant is made one of the instruments of quackery. It is a hardy perennial, has a beautiful dark green color, and may be found growing in moist shady places almost everywhere. Anthoceros, Madothica, [Lejennia?], and Asterella are often found associated with it. It spreads its broad leaf like fronds and bears its yellow fruit on deeply shaded rocks where water gently and continually flows. On the moist soil between