HELLEBORUS 



stem over 1 ft. high, forkei] almvp, i-fi (Id., large, leaf 

 like bracts; sepals roumlisli. iiMliii-'iit.!! , whitt-. imriili 

 beneath and purple edi^es. -pn :m|iii- : r,i].~ulrs olilMiii,' 

 shorter than the sepals, t ran- \ n-ily i ;tii i-M : style i-reei 

 or incurved. Asia Minor, tin. 4 r , p. i:;'i, -There are uu 

 merous varieties of this beautiful species, 

 c. Purple-fid. varieties. 

 Var. C61chicus, Eegel. Stem purple-spotted, quitt 

 glaucous: 1 leaf to ea.-h flower-stem: fls. 3-6 on a stem 

 deep brii,'lit iiuriiU-, l")ih inside and out. Asia Miuor 

 B.M. 45M CIS //..,/,.., ,//rfjis;. Gt. 1860:293. Var. Col 

 cMcus-punctatus, T. .Moore. Fls. deeper plum-purple 

 more glaucou.s, exquisitely mottled inside with innumer 



HELWINGIA 727 



Var. guttitus, A. Braun. Glabrous, green stem: 

 sepals green outside, white within and elegantly spotted 

 with purple crimson dots. Caucasus region.— Two al- 

 lied hybrid forms are named: Commerz Benary and 

 AlbinOtto. Gn. 16:1S9, f. 4. 



Var. antiqufirum, A. Braun. Glabrous, green mottled 

 stem: fls. as invar. Olympicus, but more imbricated, 

 maintaining the bell-shaped form. B.R. 2S:34 (as H. 

 orieiitalis, Liudl.). Gn. 16:189, f. 3. 



ccc. Green-fid. variety. 

 Var. CaucAsicus, A. Braun. Lvs. very glossy; seg- 

 ments more oblong than in the type, often 3 or 4 in. 

 broad : sepals round, pale green, much imbricated. 



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1036. Christmas Rose, Helleborus Niger (X^). 



able dark dots. Gn. 16 : 189, f . 8. - One of the handsomest 

 of all the Hellebores. 



Var. Abcli4sious, A. Braun. Much like var. Colchicus, 

 but differing in having 2 or more lvs. to a flower-stem. 

 Caucasus region. Gt. 1866:496 (as H. Caucasictis, var. 

 Abchasicus, Kegel). 



Var. atr6rubens, Waldst. & Kit. Only 1 leaf on a 

 flower-stem, glabrous, thinner in texture than in the 

 rest of the orieutalis group: segments narrow: fls. 2-1 

 on a stem; sepals dark purple outside, greenish purple 

 within. Hungary. R.H. 1865: 231. -A connecting link 

 between the viridis and orientalis groups. 



Var. rfibro-purpiireus, Hort. (H. afropnrpurea, Hort.). 

 A seedling of var. atrornbenx.-with bold foliage and pur- 

 ple flower-stems: fls. spreading, deep purple. Charac- 

 ters well fixed and very handsome. Gn. 16:189, f.l. R.H. 

 1884:564. 



Purple-fld. hybrids of the varieties of ff. orientalis are 

 found in the trade under the following names: Var. 

 elegans: var. iridescens: F. C. ffriii, ninim. fls. very 

 large, imbricated, deep purple and niortl.Ml; /'','i>f Trt'ne 

 Heinemnnn. fls. rose-purple outsi'l-. -reeiii-li white, 

 with dark lines and dots inside; Gi. ^ /.. u II. m. manii, 

 red-fld., strong grower; Hofgnrten-I uxp.rtor llartn-iij, 

 fls. rose-purple without and greenish within; Apotlieker 

 Bo/jren, rose-purple, very large. 



CC. niiite-fld. varieties. 

 Var. Olympicus, Lindl. Glabrous : fls. small, but 

 spreading, very numerous; sepals green on outer sur- 

 face, -white within. Bithynia. B.R. 28:58. -Hybrids 

 closely allied to this have been given the trade names: 

 Willy Schmidt and Prof. Pr. Schleicher. 



HELONIAS (Greek, swamp-loving). Lili&cece. 

 .Swamp Pink. This genus includes a rare hardy peren- 

 nial bulbous plant which grows in bogs from northern 

 N J to N. C, and is sold by dealers in native plants. 

 In veiy early spring it bears a hollow scape 1-2 ft. high, 

 crowned by a raceme 1-3 in. long, composed of perhaps 

 10 pmk or purplish fls., each 34 in. across, 6-lobed, and 

 N ith 6 blue anthers. The genus has probably only one 

 I ecies, the other plants called Helonias being largely 

 1 teried to other genera, which are distinguished in 

 1 ntton and Brown's Illustrated Flora 1:399. The genus 

 IS placed by Britton and Brown in MelanthacesB, an or- 

 der mcluded in the Liliacese by Bentham and Hooker. 

 llelonias has a short, stout rootstock like a leek. The 

 illied Heloniopsis is also in the trade, 

 buliata, Linn. Swamp Pink. Stud Pink. Lvs. sev- 

 I il or numerous, thin, dark green, clustered at the base 

 t the scape, 6-15 in. long, 5^-2 in. wide, with fine par- 

 llel nerves: scape stout, bracted below. Apr., May. 

 BM 747 L.B.C. 10:961. B.B. 1:402.-Int. by H. P. 

 kelsey 



Helonias, which is perfectly hardy, is so easily propa- 

 gated b\ division that it is hardly worth while to grow 

 from seed. Under cultivation, also, it seems to rarely ma- 

 ture perfect seed. It multiplies itself rapidly from off- 

 sets, a single plant often providing a dozen others in a 

 season. It is found growing in dense shade and also in 

 the full glare of the sun, always in wet sphagnum bog 

 in the latter case, while in the shade it sometimes 

 spreads to dry ground. Although one of the showiest of 

 all American bog plants, it is comparatively little known 

 here, though better in England. It makes an elegant 

 pot-plant. Haklan P. Kelsey and W. M. 



HEL0NI<3PSIS (Greek, like Belonias). LiliAcece. 

 This includes an herbaceous plant resembling our 

 swamp pink, Helonias hnllata, in the color of its fls. 

 and stamens, but the fls. are larger and fewer, and the 

 lvs. numerous and tufted. The style in Heloniopsis is a 

 conspicuous feature, being long and red, tipped with a 

 purple undivided stigma, while in Helonias the style is 

 very short and 3-cut. Both genera are separated from 

 numerous allied genera by the septicidal dehiscence of 

 their capsules. The fls. are bell-shaped, drooping, deep 

 pink, 6-lobed, with 6 red filaments and purple-blue sta- 

 mens. The genus has about 4 species. The following 

 grows in the mountains of Japan at an altitude of 2,000- 

 7,000 ft., and is presumably hardy. It was once offered 

 by John Saul, of Washington, D. C. 



Jap6moa, Maxim. Rootstock short, stout, with long 

 root fibers : lvs. oblanceolate, persistent, green tinged 

 purple : seeds small, very numerous, with a conspicuous 

 tail at each end. B.M. 6986. 



HELWlNGIA (after G. A. Helwing, 1666-1748, a 

 German clergyman, who wrote on the botany of Prussia ) . 

 Arali^cea'. A curious deciduous shrub, remarkable for 

 the reason that the small, inconspicuous greenish fls. 

 are borne in clusters on the midribs of the lvs. at ul>out 

 the center of their upper surfaee.s. Of not much decora- 

 tive value and therefore rarely cultivated, but interest- 

 ing on account of the unusual position of the fls.; ten- 



