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Helleborus— continued. 
inciso-serrate. h. 2ft. 
ornamental. 
See Fig. 212. (Sy. En. B. 
Fig. 212. FRUIT OF HELLEBORUS FETIDUS. 
H. lividus (livid). 
corymb; sepals nearly fi 
Europe Sate Very distinct and 
jl. pale green, ten to twenty in a deltoid 
at and spreading. March. 
— segments oblong-lanceolate, acute, sharply 
tems erect, bearing eight or ten leaves crowded near the base, 
below the inflorescence. h. lift. 
Fig. 213. HELLEBORUS NIGER. 
H. niger 
Corsica. (B. M. 72.) 
(black).* Christmas Rose. fl., when protected by glass, 
pir white, 2in. to 3in, across ; scapes stout, leafless, one to four- 
owered. Winter. 
Fic. 214. HELLEBORUS NIGER ALTIFOLIUS, 
2, radical, large, pedate, persistent ; segments 
oblanceolate-rhomboid, shallowly. — h. 6in. to 18in. 
Cen- 
l trifid, 
toothed. 
Helleborus—continued. 
tral and Eastern Europe, Western Asia, 1596. The roots of this 
Species are occasionally used in medicine. See Fig. 213. (B. M. 
8.) There are two or three varieties of this fine species: alti- 
folius (see Fig. 214), usually known as major, and also as mazi- 
mus, has very large flowers, measuring about 4in. across; it is 
one of the best of the genus. angustifolius (SYN. minor) has 
both foliage and flowers smaller than the typical species, and 
comes into bloom much earlier. There is also a form having 
foliage distinctly margined with white, 
H. odorus (sweet-scented). jl. green, sweet-scented, drooping, 
2in. across; corymb three or four-flowered. February to April. 
l. pale green, veined with white, one or two in a tuft to a flower. 
ing stem, pedate; segments six to eight, lanceolate, regularly 
toothed, A. 14ft. Eastern Europe, 1817. (B. R. 1643.) 
H. o.p ns (purplish). fl. purplish-red, about 2in. across ; 
sepals roundish, imbricated, incurved at the edges ; stamens and 
anthers creamy-white. Stem one or two-flowered. h. bin. to 10in. 
Hungary, 1817, 
H. olympicus (Olympian).* 4. purplish ; sepals round, abont 
lin. ikog broad. — i digitete-pedate or palmate, with 
Fic. 215, HELLEBORUS OLYMPICUS, showing Habit, and fully 
and partially expanded Flowers. 
five to seven linear-oblong, smooth, dentate-serrate lobes. 
Greece, 
Stems 
two or three-flowered, h., 2ft. 1840, » See Fig. 215. 
(B. R. 1842, 58.) 
i the type by its glabrous leaves, produced two in a 
ho —— ——— toned with pink and grey. guttatus, 
flowers 2in. across, white; sepals spotted with purple; leaves 
two in a tuft, with a flowering stem. Some of the hybrids of 
H. orientalis are: elegans, iridescens, and punctatus. 
viridis n bright green ; flowering stem with five or 
| * distinct —— and large, deeply palmately cut, foliaceous 
bracts ; sepals roundish-ovate, Bvring. l. pedate, with crowded, 
oblanceolate, serrated segments. A. lift. Europe (Britain), &¢. 
(Sy. En. B, 44.) 
i : 
A common name applied to 
HELMET FLOWER. 
Aconitum, Coryanthes, and Scutellaria (which see), 
OLTZIA (named after Hermann Helmholtz, 
a celebrated Prussian professor, born in 1821). Oz. 
Philydracee. A genus of a couple of species of green- 
house tufted herbaceous perennials, one of which is from 
Australia, and the other—the one described below—from 
the Pacific Islands. They thrive in a well-drained sandy 
loam and peat compost, and require plenty of water. 
Increased by divisions, or by seeds. 
