ORD. XXVI. Multisilique.. ATS 
soon died.‘ Stavesacre is now therefore confined to external use 
in some kinds of cutaneous eruption, but more especially for 
destroying lice and other insects; and by its efficacy in this way, 
this plant, in most of the European languages, is distinguished by 
the mame of Louse-wort. 
® Diss. de Venen. p, 20. 
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HELLEBORUS NIGER. | BLACK HELLEBORE, Or, 
CHRISTMAS ROSE. 
SYNONYMA. Helleborus Niger, seu Melampodium.* Pharm, 
ond. § Edin. WUelleborus Niger legitimus. Clus. Hist. 274, 
Helleborus Niger flore roseo, Banh. Pin. 186. Helleborus 
Niger flore albo; interdum etiam valde rubente. J. Bauh. 3, 
635. Helleborus Niger verus. Gerard’s Herb. 975. True 
Black Hellebore, or Christmas Flower. aii Hist. Plant. 697. 
An nostra planta sit 2arsGogor wedas et MOapymodior Graecor. et Helle- 
borus, Elieborus, Veratrum, Latinorum, nihil certi pronunciari 
possit. 
Class Polyandria. Order Polygynia, ZL, Gen. Plant. 702. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 0. Petala 5 s. plura. Nectaria bilabiata, 
tubulata. Caps. polysperma, erectiuscule, _ 
Sp. Ch. H. Scapo subbiflore subnudo, foliis pedatis. 
THE root is perennial, rough, knotted, and externally of a 
black colour, internally whitish, sending off many strong round 
long fibres; the flower stalks are erect, round, tapering, and 
> A Melampo qui primus purgationem instituit: unde xa$zgrns, id est purgator 
nominatus fuit, & hocce medicamento Preeti filias in furorem actas persamavit, 
Geoff, 
No, 40.—vot, 3. Gb 
