Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LIV'ER-WORT, n.

The name of many species of plants. Several of the lichens are so called. The liverworts (Hepaticæ) are a natural order of cryptogamian plants, whose herbage is generally frondose, and resembling the leafy lichens, but whose seeds are contained in a distinct capsule. The noble liverwort is the Hepatica triloba. – Smith. Lee.