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scarcely exceeding the leaves, bearing usually two, three, 

 or four large drooping flowers of a pale yellowish-green, 

 and at each ramification a sessile leaf, much less divided 

 than the radical ones, and the segment usually digitate.'* 



Fig. 17. — Hellbboeus Viridis (Geben Hellebore). 



H.foetidus (Fig. 18), or setter-wort : ' Lower leaves not all 



radical, but mostly raised on the short perennial base of the 



stems, forming a larger and thicker tuft than in H. viridis, 



their segments narrower, less toothed, sfciffer, darker green, 



* Bentham and Hooker. 



