ORD. XXVI, Multisilique. 477 
HELLEBORUS FOETIDUS. FETID HELLEBORE, Or, 
BEAR ’s-FOOT. 
Picasa: Ea RS 
SYNONYMA. Helleboraster. Pharm. Lond. Helleborus Niger 
Feetidus. Bauh. Pin. 185.  Helleboraster maximus flore & 
semine pregnans. Lobel. p. 679. Helleboraster maximus. 
Gerard. Herb. p. 977. Helleborus maximus sive Consiligo. 
Park. t. 212. Helleborus caule ramoso, multiflero, foliis mul- 
tipartitis, serratis, stipulis ovato-lanceolatis, coloratis. Haller’s 
Stirp. Helv. p. 1193. Elleborus niger sylvestris adulterinus. 
etiam hyeme virens. J. Bauh. 3. p. 880. Veratrum nigrum 3. 
Dodon. Pempt. 382. Great Black Hellebore, or Bear’s Foot. 
Setierwort, Raii Synopsis, p. 271. Withering’s Bot. Arrang. 582. 
Rethan’s Flor. Cant. p. 218. 
Class Polyandria. Ord. Polygynia. JZ. Gen. Plant. 702. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 0. Petala 5 s. plura. Nectaria bilabiata, 
tubulata. Caps. polysperme, erectiuscula, 
Sp. Ch. H. caule multifloro folioso, foliis pedatis. 
THE root is small, but beset with a prodigious number of 
slender dark coloured fibres;* the stem rises to the height of a 
foot and a half, or more, towards the bottom it is round, strong, 
firm, naked, and marked with alternate cicatrices, the vestiges of 
the former leaves; at the top it divides and subdivides into 
branches, producing many flowers, and is garnished with scaly 
leaves, or bractex; the leaves are numerous, and stand upon long 
footstalks, surrounding the middle of the stem; they are div ded 
* Gerard’s description we find very just. « The root eonsisteth of many. small 
black strings, involved or wrapped one within another very intricately.” Johnson’s 
Gerard, 977. 
No. 40.—vot. 3; HE 
