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HELLERORUS | PURPURASCENS. - URPLISH 
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Class and Order. ° ‘| } : 2 
- Potyanpria Potyeynta. : i a 3 
( Nat. Ord.—Ranunevnacez. ) os Y te 
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Generic Character. F = 
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_ Hetiegorvs * purpurascens ; foliis radicalibus subtus sub- 
pubescentibus palmatisectis, . segmentis basi_cuneatis 
apice 3—5-lobis, caule bifloro, foliis floralibus sub- 
sessilibus, calycis sepalis subrotundatis coloratis. D C. 
HEtLEBorvs purpurascens. Waldst. et Kit. Pl. Rar. Hung. 
v. 2. p. 105. t. 101. De Cand.. Prodr. v. 1. p. 4%. 
Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 658. — 
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Descr. The root consists of a woody, tuber-like, trun- 
cated, rough stock, from which are emitted numerous 
simple or branched, descending, brown, fibres. When the 
plant is in flower, the stem is not a span high, terete, some- 
what downy, purplish-green, having at the base many large, 
sheathing, membranaceous, reddish-green scales, which en- 
Close the young, or Eee, leaves. —— idee 
‘soggs . aie OT 
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Seas 
sie From tw, to destroy, and Gop, food: from the poisonous nature of these 
