122 - VYERATRUM VIRIDE, | 
_ This plant'is not only found in boggy mead- 
ows, but by the sides of brooks in rocky and 
mountainous situations, from Canada to Carolina. 
Its flowering time is from May to July. 
9) The Veratrum album or White Hellebore, a 
well known medicinal plant found in most coun+ 
tries of Europe, has a very close resemblance to 
the American species, It is, however, a smooth- 
er plant, and differs. somewhat in its flowers, 
hractes and stalks. , betel 
» » The genus Veratrum, on account of the diyer- 
sity of its flowers, was placed by Linnus in. his 
class Polygamia and order Monecia. 'Those more 
recent botanists; who omit this class, have trans- 
ferred the genus to Hewandria trigynia, 
-. The generic character of Veratrum consists 
in a six-parted corolla without calya. Stamens 
inserted in the receptacle. Capsules three, many 
seeded. I part of the flowers barren. . The spe- 
eles viride has a downy panicle with the partial 
hractes longer than their pedicels. Segments of 
the corolla thickened on the inside at base. hs 
einoidbiie root of this plant is thick and. fleshy, its 
upper portion tunieated, its lower half solid and 
sending forth: a multitude of: large whitish radi- 
cles. «The stem is from three to five feet high, 
roundish, solid, striated’ and’ pubescent. Through- 
