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  1. Plant of the class Hepaticae, related to
  2. mosses, found growing in damp places. The
  3. main sexual generation consists of a thallus,
  4. which may be flat, green and lobed, like a
  5. small leaf, or leafy and moss-like. The
  6. spore-bearing generation is smaller,
  7. typically parasitic on the thallus, and
  8. throws up a capsule from which spores are
  9. spread.
  10.