Tab. 7903. 

 HELLEBORUS lividus. 



Native of Majorca. 



Nat. Orel. Eanunculace*. — Tribe Hellebore*. 

 Genua Helleborus, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 7.) 



Helleborus (caulescentea) lividus ; erectus, robuatus, caule foliisqae subtas 

 pallide rubescentibus, foliis radicalibus simplicibus cordatis, caulinis 

 trifoliolatis, foliolis ad 6 poll, longis seasilibus crasse coriaceis ovato- 

 oblongia vel oblongo-lanceolatis integris lateralibua basi oblique semi- 

 coidatis, terminali basi cuneato petiolulato, supra loete viridibua nervia 

 6ubtus reticularis, petiolo crasso, panicula ramosa pauciflora, bracteis 

 ovato-oblongis majuaoulis serratis, fljribus cernuia ad 2 poll, latis, 

 sepalis rotundatis concavis intus pallide griseo-viridibns, petalis tubulosis, 

 ore obliquo, viridibue, filamentis viridibus, antheria aureis, carpellia 4-6 

 coriaceia. 



H. lividus, Ait. ex Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 72 ; Ait. Rort. Kew. ed. I. vol. ii. p. 272, 

 ed. IT. vol. iii. p. 361. Willk. & Lange, Prodr. Fl. Ilisp. vol. iii. p. 974. 

 Trattin. Archiv. tt. 205, 205a. (Joint. Enum. PI. Penins. flisp. Lusit. 

 vol. i. p. 69, excl. ayn. If. argutifolius. Schiff. Mowgr. Helleb. p. 63 

 (subspecies.) 



H. lividus, var. integrilobns, DC. Prodr. vol. i. p. 47. H. trifolius, Mill. 

 Gard. Diet. ed. VI 1 1, n. 4 (non Linn.). 



Helleborus lividus was first published and figured by- 

 Curtis in the Botanical Magazine in 1789, and he cites for 

 it Alton's " Hort. Kewensis," ined., which work appeared 

 in the same year. That figure is so unsatisfactory, and 

 indeed inaccurate, representing the sepals as acute, that 

 I have deemed it right to introduce a better, together 

 with the full synonymy of the species as here restricted. 

 When first published its native country was unknown, and 

 I'emained so till after the date of the second edition of the 

 " Hortus Kewensis" (1811). The plant had, however, 

 been in cultivation in England since 1710, according to 

 Aiton, who cites for it the " Philosophical Transactions of 

 the Royal Society," n. 325, p. 48, implying that it was one 

 of a selection of plants sent annually to that Society from 

 the gardens of the Apothecaries' Company at Chelsea. 



Botanically H. lividus, Ait , is hardly separable from 

 H. corsicus, Willd. (//. argutif alius, Viv.), and it has been 

 included under that species by many authors, including 

 Lindley (Bot. Reg. xxiv. t. 54) ; but from a horticultural 

 standpoint they are quite distinct, as may be proved by a 

 July 1st, 1903. 



