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Specimen
Hepatica trinistas Ital..
Hepatica nobilis (L.) Mill.
Leverbloempje (NL), Liverwort, Liverleaf (UK), Hepatica (Lat), Edel Levercruyt (Br).

Notes: This species was used to clean the liver, due to the likeness of the leaves with a pig's liver. It was supposed that the human liver would look alike and that those plants resembling a certain organ would help cure it.