2 HELLEBOEUS NIGER 



States it is chiefly valued as an emmenagogue. It has been 

 employed in mania, melancholia, epilepsy, dropsy, amenorrhcea, 

 dysmenorrhoea, chronic skin affections, worms, and other diseases. 

 In large doses it is a powerful aero-narcotic poison. 



Black hellebore is sometimes used, both internally and exter- 

 nally, as a medicine for domestic animals. 



Per. Mat. Med., vol. ii, pt. ii, p. 681 ; Pharmacographia, p. 2 ; 

 Per. Mat. Med., by B. & B,., p. 994; U. S. Disp., by W. & B., 

 p. 449; Bastick, in Pharm. Journ., vol. xii, 1 ser., p. 274; 

 Bentley, in Pharm. Journ., vol. ii, ser. 2, p. 464, and vol. iii, 

 p. 112 ; Carson, in Amer. Journ. Pharm., vol. xx, p. 163. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE. 



Drawn from a specimen grown in Messrs. Yeitch's Nursery, Chelsea; 

 flowering in January. 



1. Vertical section of flower. 



2. A petal. 



9. Yertical section of the same. 



(3 and 4 enlarged.) 



