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Z&. Veretrum (Tourn.) Le False Hellebore. 
Coarse corn-like herbs with thick bulbous rootstocks. Stems simple except 
in the inflorescence, leafy. Leaves broad, entire, sheathing the stem, the 
veins rib-like. Flowers greenish or white in terminal panicles, the lowermost 
frequently imperfect, staminate, Perianth segments equal, persistent, 
attached to the base of the ovary. Stamens 6, opposite the perianth-segments 
and included by them, recurving in the upper part, the anthers directed down- 
wardg ‘becoming confluent. Styles 3, fruit a 3-chambered, 5-lobed capsule, each 
lobe attenuate into the persistent style. Seeds flattened, the testa wing-like. 
© Flowers green, the branches of the panicle markedly 
¢; drooping 1 Ve Eschscholtzii 
+, Flowers white, the branches of the panicle extended 
4 laterally or ascending 
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