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BRITISH HERBAL. 
4. Helleborine, with long, fharp-pointed leaves, 
Helleborine foliis prolongis anguftis acutis. 
The root is compofed of numerous fibres. 
The ftalk is two feet high, and not branched. 
The leaves are long and narrow, fharp- 
pointed, and of a dead green. 
The flowers ftand in a loofe fpike at the top of 
the flalk ; and are large, of a longifh fhape, 
white, and tinged on the outfide with green. 
We have it in thickets on damp foils. Tr 
flowers in Auguft. 
Ray calls it Helleborine foliis prolongis anguftis 
acutis. 
5. Marth-Helleborine. 
Helleborine paluftris. 
The root is compofed-of numerous fibres, 
The ftalk is a foot and kalf high, round, up- 
night, and not branched. : 
The leaves are broad, and full of thick 
ribs. 
The flowers hang from the top of the ftalk in 
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a loofe {pike ; and they are purplifh on the out- 
fide, and white within. 
We have it in bogey grounds, but not com- 
mon. 
C.Bauhine calls it Helleborine angufiifolia pa- 
luftris; but the leaves are not remarkably nar. 
row. 
6. Purple, narrow-leaved Helleborine. 
Helleborine anguftifolia flore purpureo, 
The root is compofed of numerous fibres, 
The ftalk is round, upright, and of a pale 
green. i 
The flowers ftand at the top in athin {pike 
and droop a little ; they are large and purple. 
We have it in woods in our northern counties, 
Tt flowers in Augutt. : 
C. Bauhine calls it Helleboring montana angufti- 
folia purpurafcens. 
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The roots of all thefe kinds are powerfully 
emetick, poffefling the qualities of white belle. 
bore. 
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LADY’S SLIPPER, 
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HE flower is placed upon the rudiment of 
~ Lady’s Shipper. 
Calceolus Marie. 
The root is compofed of numerous implicated 
fibres. | 
The ftalk is round, upright, not at all branched, 
and of a pale green. 
The leaves are oblong, and of a yellowith 
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Ages flower is fupported upon the rudiment of the 
five petals, two of which 
ftands a nectarium, 
rootis fibrous. 
Linnzus ranges this with the preceding, 
which hangs down, 
1, Common Twyblade. 
. Opbris vulgaris. 
The root is compofed of numerous fibres, 
rioufly interwoven, 
The ftalk is round, Juicy, and ten inches 
high. 
The leaves are naturally no more than two: 
po 
va- 
are placed outward, the reft upward ; and in th 
and is toothed. The leaves are naturally o 
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the feed-veffel, and has no cup. It confifts of five 
petals when compleat ; but one is not unfrequently wanting; and in the midft of 
a large, hollow neétarium, fuppofed to refemble a flipper, 
The leaves are broad and nervous, and the root is fibrous, 
Linnzus places this among the &ynandria diandria, 
thefe is placed 
This has at the top a little crooked lip, 
two threads growing on the piftil. 
j green, obtufe, and marked with vety high ribs, 
The flower ftands at the top.; 
large, and of a beautiful yellow. 
We have it in woods in our northern counties, 
but not common. It flowers in Auguft, 
C. Bauhine calls it Helleborine flore rotundo, five 
‘Calceolus, 
and is yery 
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fruit, and has no cup. It is compofed of 
€ centre of thefe 
nly two; and the 
they are broad, fhort, and placed Oppofite te 
each other at fome diftance above the ground. 
_ The flowers ftand in a long fpike at the top ; 
and are of a pale greenifh colour, 
It is common on marfhy ground, and flowers 
in June. 
C. Bauhine calls ir Optris bifelia, 
Others, 
Bifolium. 
2, Dwarf 
