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!• ea:nunculace^. 



{^Helleborus, 



'flat, with an obscure depression above tlie contracted base. 

 Stamens numerous. Follicles many. — N"ame said to be derived 

 from ^Hrol or trolen'" a hall or globe in old German, and bear- 



E.B. 



mg the same meamng as our Ji.nglish word Globe-flower 



1. T. Europm'us L. (Mountain G.) ; calyx of about '. 

 cave erect sepals, petals nearly as long as the stamens. 



Moist mountain-pastures in the north of England and Ireland 

 Wales and Scotland. %. 6 — 8. — Leaves in 5 deep segments, which 

 are again cut and serrated. Flowers large, handsome. 



(Erdnthis hyemdlis Salisb., the well-known Winter-aconite o{ 

 our gardens and shrubberies, although naturalized in several 



) 



9. Helleborus Linn. Hellebore. 



Cal of 5 persistent sepals. Pet. 8 — 10, small, tubular, and 

 nectariferous. Stamens numerous. Follicles 3 — 10, sessile. 

 Name : iXecv^ to injure^ and ^opa^food^ from its poisonous nature. 



1. H. viridis L. {green H.) ; stem few-flowered leafy, leaves 

 digitate, calyx spreading. F. B. t. 200. 



Woods, thickets, and hedges; and about walls and old houses espe- 

 cially in a chalky soil: perhaps wild in Birkdale near Helmsley, York- 

 shire, and in the south of England. %. 3,4. — About 1 ft, high. Leaves 

 annual, large, on a broad stalk ; upper ones sessile ; segments linear- 

 lanceolated, serrated at the extremity. Cal. large, greenish-yellow. 

 This and the following have been often employed medicinally, instead 

 of the true ancient or Greek H. (H. officinalis Sibth. and Smith). 



2. H. fce^tidus L. (stinking H.) ; stem many-flowered leafy, 

 leaves pedate, calyx converging. E. B. t. 613. 



Pastures and thickets, especially In chalky counties, In England; 

 wild in Hants ; Br. Bromjield. Blantyre, Barncluith and by the 

 Doune (Ayr) on the west; and near Anstruther, on the east of Scot- 

 land, but certainly introduced. %. 2 — 4. — A bushy plant, 2 feet 



Leaves evergreen, uppermost ones gradually becoming Iradeas. 

 Flowers globose ; cal^/x often tipped with a purple tinge. Fetid and 

 powerfully cathartic. 



p 



10. Aquilegia Lvin. Columbine. 



high. 



CaL of 5 sepals, deciduous, coloured. 



in a born-shaped spur or nectary. 

 Follicles 5. — Named fronx Aquila^ an eagle, whose 



Bating below 

 numerous. 



Pet, 5, regular termi- 



Stamens 



claws the nectaries resemble. 



1. 



c 



follicles hairy, stem leafy many-flowered, leaves nearly glabrous, 



styles as long as the stamens. F. B. t. 297. 



