Some one, for instance, must have thought this flower long ago'-he stooped and picked a blue hepatica at their feet-'or it couldn't be growing here now.
"A Prisoner in Fairyland"
Algernon Blackwood
The tubes are not so crowded as is usual in the Fistulina hepatica.
"Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc."
George Francis Atkinson
I. Of course it is altogether too late, now, to look for any of the early spring flowers, but I can recall the exquisite effect of the tender blue hepatica fringing the centre rail of the grip-cars, all up and down Broadway, and apparently springing from the hollow beneath, where the cable ran with such a brooklike gurgle that any damp-living plant must find itself at home there.
"Short Stories and Essays From "Literature and Life""
William Dean Howells