HELLEBORUS 



stem over 1 ft. high, forked above. 2-6fld., large, leaf- 

 like bracts; sepals roundish, imbricated, white, purple 

 beneath and purple edges, spreading: capsules oblong, 

 shorter than the sepals, transversely ribbed : style erect 

 or incurved. Asia Minor. Gn. 47, p. 13lj. — There are nu- 

 merous varieties of this beautiful species, 

 c. Purple-fid. vnrieties. 

 Var. Cdlchicus, Kegel. Stem purple-spotted, quite 

 glaucous: 1 leaf to each flower-stem: Us. 3-6 on a stem, 

 deep bright purple, both inside and out. Asia Minor. 

 B.Jil.ioSl l,VLsH. atrornbeus). Gt. 1860:293. Var. Col- 

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

 more glaucous, exquisitely mottled inside with innumer- 



HELWIXGIA 727 



Var. gutt4tus, A. Brauii. t.ihiljrous, green stem: 

 sepals green outside, white within ;iiul eleK:iiilly spotted 

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

 lied hybrid forms are named: Commerz Benary and 

 Albin Otto. Gn. 16:180, f. 4. 



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

 stem: Hs. as invar. Oli/mpieus, but more imbricated, 

 maintaining the bell-shaped form. B.R. 28:34 (as B. 

 orientalis, Lindl.). Gn. 16:189, f. 3. 



ccc. Green-fid. variety. 

 Var. Caucisicus, 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. 

 Caucasus region. g. q_ d^vis. 



HELMET FLOWER. Jconi 



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



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

 of all the Hellebores. 



Var. AbchAsicus, 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. Caucasicus, var. 

 Abcliasieiis, Regel). 



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

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

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

 on a stem; sepals dark purple outside, greenish purple 

 within. Hungary. R.H. 18G,t: 231. -A connecting link 

 between the viridis and orientalis groups. 



Var. riibro-puTpiireus, Hort. (H. atrnpnrpurea, Hort.). 

 Aseedling of var. otrorHhenn.-^ith bold foliage and pur- 

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

 ters well fixed and very handsome. Gn. 16:189, f. 1. R.H. 

 1884:564. 



Purple-fld. hybrids of the varieties of 5". orientuUs are 

 found in the trade under the following names: Var. 

 elegaiis; var. irideseens; F. C. Heitu'inanti, fls. very 

 large, imbricated, deep purple and mottled ; Frau Irene 

 Heinemann, fls. rose-purple outside, greenish white, 

 with dark lines and dots inside; Gretchen Heinemann, 

 red-fld., strong grower; lloffjarten-Iuspector Hartivig, 

 fls. rose-purple without and greenish within; Apotheker 

 Bogren, rose-purple, very large. 



cc. White-fid. varieties. 

 Var. Ol^mpicuE, 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. Dr. Schleicher. 



HELONIAS (Greek, sieamp-loving). Liliaceie. 

 SwiMP PiN'K Tliis genus includes a rare hardy peren- 

 nial bulbous pHut which grows in bogs from northern 

 N I to N C ai 1 IS sold by dealers in native plants, 

 li \er\ earlv s] r Dg It beirs a hollow scape 1-2 ft. high, 

 11 1 e 1 3 in. long, composed of perhaps 



I I 1 il 1 fl each H in. across, 6-lobed, and 

 I I I The genus has probably only one 



I I \ Innts called Helonias being largely 



th r geneia which are distinguished in 

 I Brown s lUu trated Flora 1 ::i99. The genus 

 I Britt n and Brown in Melanthacea>, an or- 



1 1 ID the Liliacese by Bentham and Hooker. 

 II I I a short stout rootstock like a leek. The 



II e 1 Heloniopsis is also in the trade. 

 bulUta Lmn Swamp Pink. Stud Pink. Lvs. sev- 

 1 or numerous thin dark green, clustered at the base 

 ot the scape, 6 la in. long, K-2 in. wide, with fine par- 

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

 B.M. 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 by 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 oft'- 

 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 's comparatively little known 

 here, though better in England. It makes an elegant 

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



HEL0NI6PSIS |i;.- K. ;.', //. 

 This includes an In : 



swamp piuk. He 



,but the I1-. nir l.-iiL- r:,u,\ \, ■;,.■:■. 1 iho 



lvs. numerous and tufted. The style m 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. 



Japdnica, 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. 



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

 Germanclergyman, who wrote on the botany of Prussia). 

 Arali&cece. 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 about 

 the center of their upper surfaces. Of not much decora- 

 tive value and therefore rarely cultivated, but interest- 

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



