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precedes the flowers. Altogether it is a very desirable species, 
H. olympicus has many synonyms—viz., colchicus, guttatus 
and very hardy. 
abchasicus, and olympicus albus. Radical leaves} palmate, 
ae 
Fig. 73.—HELLEBORUS ORIENTALIS. 
segments oblong linear, and toothed on the margin except near 
the base, which is entire ; floral leaves large, stalkless, sharply 
serrated on the upperhalf, Flowers cup-shaped, white, slightly 
tinged green ; sepals bluntly egg-shaped, persistent, produced 
on forked flower stems 12 to 15 inches in height, they and the 
leafstalks mottled with reddish brown spots. It flowers with 
