Note E208 — 39.
Reading edition
"Liuerwort," so called from the liver shape of the thallus, and its supposed effects in disease of the liver. O. L. Ger. Steenleuerwnyt. According to Lyte's Dodoens, p. 59, "a soueraigne medicine against the heate and inflammation of the Lyuer, and all hoate Feuers or Agues." Anemone Hepatica, Linn.
The first portion of this note refers to a Cryptogam called Liverwort, having nothing to do with the plant meant by Tusser.—Note by Mr. J. Britten, F.L.S.