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AUTUMN AND WINTER 



palmate, or spreading like the fingers of a hand. The green, 

 rank-smelling flowers grow in a cluster at the top of one or 

 more stems. The green hellebore also grows in woods, but 



BLACK HELLEBORE 



in less stony situations. It is a smaller and slighter plant, 

 about nine inches high, and without the dark and tattered 

 half-evergreen growth of the other species. It bears a 

 smaller cluster of larger blossoms, which are of almost the 

 same tinge of green as the fresh leaves, whereas those of the 



