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* HELLEBORUS lividus. 



Corsican Hellebore. 



POLYANDRIA POLYGYRIA. 



Nat. ord. Ranunculace^e. 



HELLEBORUS. Bot. Reg. vol. 19. fol. 1643. 



H. lividus ; foliis ternatis coriaceis : foliolis oblongis acuminatis argute aristato- 



dentatis, racemo erecto multifloro bracteis foliaceis. 

 H. lividus, Ait. Kew. ed. 1. p. 272. DeCand. Prod?'. 1. 47. Cambess. plant . 



Balear. p. 32. Bot. Mag. t. 72. 

 H. argutifolius. Vivian. Jl. cors. spec. p. 8. 



A hardy herbaceous plant of rare occurrence, for which 

 1 have to thank the Hon. W. F. Strangways. 



At first sight it is not unlike H. odor us, already figured 

 in this work, fol. 1643, but has extremely different leaves, 

 which are merely ternate, with numerous sharp- pointed 

 toothings, instead of being pedate. 



Professor Viviani, supposing the H. lividus of the Hortus 

 Kewensis to be a North American plant, distinguished this 

 from it under the name of H. argutifolius ; but M. Cam- 

 bessedes, in his Enumeration of Balearic plants, rightly cor- 

 rected this error, and shewed that the Corsican Hellebore is 

 the same as H. lividus. " I have in vain," he says, " endea- 

 voured to discover what could have induced M. Viviani to 

 suppose the contrary. H. lividus is a hardy perennial in the 

 Kew Garden ; it is therefore only the northern parts of 

 America of which it could be a native. I have sought it in 

 vain in the works of Michaux, Pursh, and Nuttall. Upon 

 consulting the figure in the Botanical Magazine all my 



* Sec Bot. Kce. vol. 19. fol. 1643. 



