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and more shining, their outer lobes at a less distance from 

 the central ones. Flower-stem about a foot high, with a large 

 close panicle of drooping flowers, of a pale green, tinged 

 at the apex with purple, the concave sepals giving them a 



Pig. 18. — Helleboeus Foetidus (Setter- Wort). 



globular form. Bracts at the ramification of the panicle 

 ovate and entire, or shortly lobed at the summit.' * 



Habitat of both species chiefly South-Eastern England. 



All parts of the hellebores are poisonous, particularly 

 the root, whence the extract is made. The tincture at one 

 * Bentham and Hooker. 



