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_ Winter or Chrifimas Rofe , there are fome other forts of black 
Fide OAR A, Book I. 
Hellebor, but none of any beauty or efteem, but this only, 
-Helleborus albus. 
yee white Hellebor comethup with 4 great round head, of a whi- 
tifh green colour, opening it felf into many beautiful urge oreen 
leaves, eminently plaited throughout, and compafsing eac other 
atthe bottome: outofthem the ftalkrifech ayard high, or more, 
with {mall leaves to the middle thereof, from whence it is divided 
into many branches, bearing a multitude of {mall ftar-like flowers 
of a yellowith green colour : the root is thick and big at the head, 
with divers great white ftrings, which run down deep into the ground, 
there ftrongly fattened, and abiding many years unremoved, 
| Hellebor ws albus flore atrorubente. 
Fea white Hellebor with a dark red flower differethfrom the laft, in 
that it cometh upa moneth before it, with larger leaves, fmaller 
and finer plaited: the flowers are leffer than thofe of the former, 
and of a dark red, or fad liver-colour, Thisisaftately plant, and will 
- deferve its place in the beft Florifts garden, There ate fome leffer 
forts of Hellebor which we call HeHeborine, whereof two or three are 
worth our acquaintance, and therefore fit to be inferted, : 
Helleborine major five Calceolus Marie. 
Ur Ladies flipper cometh up with divers ftalks about half a yard 
high, compafled at the bottom with broad green leaves, like 
thofe of white Helebor, but {maller, and not plaited ; at the tops of 
the ftalks come forth one, two, and fometimes three flowers, one 
above another,upon {mall fhort foot-ftalks, witha {mall leaf at the 
foot of each: the flowers in form are Oval, the upper part hollow, 
and the lowerround and {welling ; at the hollow part are two {mall 
flippers, wherewith at the firft the hollownefs is covered, but after 
open and ftand apart from each other; thefe flowers areinfome ot 
a pale yellow, and in others more rare of a brown colour, tending to 
purple; theraotsare compofed of nae dark brown ftrings, inter- 
laced one within the other, lying under the upper cruft of the earth, 
and not deeper, as thofe of the former kinds, 
= Lieeborine oat? flore albo. 
eee {mall white Hellebor rifeth up like the laft, but not fo high, 
B neither are the leaves fo large, and of a whiter green colour : the 
ftalkbeareth ina {pike many {mall white flowers, confifting of five 
leavesand a {mall clofe hood in the middle : the roots are mary 
fmall ftrings, running in the upper part of the earch, | 
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ee. Ped Ss = Helleborina 
