PI. ex. thai. 85y RANUNCULACE.E; 461.Helleb. 713 



Helleborus niger hortensis flore viridi, Raii Syn. 271, 1. 

 Hellcborastruin, Ger. em, 976, 2. 

 Hellehoraster minor, flore viridante, Park, 212. 

 Hellfborus viridis, Lin. S. P. 784. 

 Wild black hellebore. Bears foot. 



Woods and pastures on chalk; perenn.; March to May. 



Roots fleshy; fibres long; herb quite bald; stem forked 

 at top ; leaves shining; root-leaves growing longer than the 

 stem after flowering ; lobes oblong, lanceolate, acutely ser- 

 rated, outer lobes often 2 or Ji-cut ; stem-leaves 3 or 

 5-parted ; jiowers green, slightly drooping. — Leaves in- 

 fused in beer used as a prophylactic in epidemic fevers, are 

 violently purgative, and vermifuge. 



b. Stem many-Jioweredi leafy ; peduncles Iracteated. 



i2. Helleborus Joetidus. Stinking hellebore. 



Stem many-flowered, leafy ; leaves pedately cut, quite 

 bald ; lobes oblong, linear. 



Hellehoraster maximus, Raii Syn. 271, 2 ; Ger. em. 976, 3. 

 Hellehoraster maximus seu Consili£;o, Park, 212. 

 Helleborus foetidus, Lin. S. P. 784. 

 Great ox heel. Bearsfoot setterworl. 



Chalky shady places ; perennial; March and April. 



Stem panicled; leaves blackish green; bractece ovate, 

 not cut, tip deeply toothed, pale' yellowish green ; flowers 

 drooping; sepales erect, connivent, green with a purple 

 edge, persistent ; camares 3 or 4.— Root purgative ; root or 

 stem used as a seton by the ferriers. 



VI. 462. TROLLIUS. Linnaeus. Globe-flower. 



Calyx coloured, 5, 10, or 1.5-sepaled; sepales deciduous, 

 petal-like ; pe/«/5 5 to 20, small,tubular at bottom, 1 -lipped; 

 stamens and ovaries many; camares many, sessile, nearly 

 cylindrical, many-seeded. — Plant herbaceous, bald, upright, 

 perennial; root fibrous; fibres black, in bundles; leaves 

 petioled, palmately many-cut ; flowefs terminal, yellow. 



Trollius Europceus. European globe-flower. 



Sepales 15, connivent, forming a hall; petals 5 or 10, as 

 long as the stamens. 



Ranunculus globosus, Raii Syn. 212; Ger. em.. 935, 12; Park. Par. 218, 



Trollius Europaeus, Lin. S. P. 782. 



Trollius altissimus^ Grants Austr. 2, 123- 



TrolUus globosus, Lamark Fl. Fr. 3, 323. 



Trollius connivens, Mcench Meth. 313. 



Trollius montanus, Salisbury Prod. 373. 



Tr..llius sphaericusy Salisb. Tr. Soc. Zin. SiJOS. 



Globe cromfott. Locker gowlands. 



