ttellebore, 
fjelleborus viridis. Natura Orver: Ranunculacee—Crowfoot Family. 
SEVERAL plants are known under the name of Hellebore, and 
‘though belonging to different and distinct families, they all pos- 
? sess highly poisonous: qualities, as the literal translation of their 
botanical name would signify, “food of death,” from the com- 
Sy. bination of two Greek words, e/ein, to cause death (literally to 
s take away), and dora, food. Though fatal in inexperienced 
hands, they are exceedingly useful in the hands of educated medical 
py me: The ancients were also well acquainted with their merits, as 
¥™they used them for all “mental diseases, such as madness and Sk 
the best growing on the island of Anticyra in the AAgean sea.” This 
variety is from Europe, is about three feet high, with large, nodding 
flowers, and is grown as an ornamental plant. 
Galumny. 
OR might nor greatness in mortality 
Can censure ’scape; back-wounding calumny 
The whitest virtue strikes; what king so strong 
Can: tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue? 
— Shakespeare. 
HE world with calumny abounds; HEN sland’rous tongue thy honor stings, 
The whitest virtue slander wounds; This solace give thee rest: — 
There are whose joy is, night and day, Whatever fruit the autumn brings, 
To talk a character away. —Pope. The wasp will choose the best. 
—G. A, Burger. 
HE ignoble mind 
Loves ever to assail with secret blow 
The loftier purer beings of their kind. 
—W. G. Simms. 
O wound which warlike hand of enemy Infixeth in the name of noble wight; 
Inflicts with dint of sword, so sore doth light For by no art, nor any leeches’ might 
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As doth the poisonous sting which infamy It ever can receivéd be again.  —Spenser. i 
