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HELIOTROPE; or, TURNSOLE. 
HELIOTROPIUM. 
Class 5.—PENTANDRIA. 
Nat. Ord. Linn, 
ASPERIFOLLE 
Heliotropium, L. from the Greek eros, the s PO, 
to hi hy By 3% because, as mays pment, at turns its be pound 
ae: | rage rs at 
but is of a different genus. Both have 
nec 
Y jeives, ea hoatike ania whole 
ight. 
“— es that tw 7) flowers so unlike, as the sun-flower 
The blossoms sak the sun — are too well known to need a 
duscrigiien here; those of the Helio oateaese are very small, deli- 
cate, fragrant blossoms, phesteres of a faint t pu rple color, or 
white, sometimes red and bluish white. It is made t 
yellow, and confounded with the sun-flower in the pihewing 
lines— 
What yellow, lovely as the golden vee 
The lupine, and the Aeliotrope adorn Browne. 
~ wii rose is ther 
silver , the hellabrope a sun! Andrein’s Adam. 
lous account of = origin of the os an im that 
r es » wi 
bier d sun-flower, which still turns its head 
s course, as in pledge of her love. Ovid 
All = all mo in trackless wilds, alone 
her moan, 
re) lies, her bosom as 
sb het mee. yoo ell’d is her 
She erat d about, but rose not from os 
der looks ‘helt paleness ina flow r retain’d, 
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till the lov’d abject the fond leaves pursue, 
still move thei the moving sun to view. 
and in the 8 the nymph is true. Reeiee. 8 Ovid. 
The Heliotrope i: of warm ercoigaa growing in 
India, Peru, the We st Ind ae South of Europe, e With us, 
itisa green house aH - the shrubby, _ herbaceous os 
wae a > an ee biennial roots. e leaf, tu r, 
ve segments, p' ee nt, cute er as petal, pe 
shaped five-cleft, vith intermediate teeth: its mouth without 
valyes. Seeds naked. 
HELLEBORE. 
HELLEBORUS. 
Class 13. —FOLYANDBIA. Order.—POLYGINIA. 
vi re ; . Juss. 
MULTISILIQu m. Poe sr agg 
Mi .L. The ELEBOROS, MELAS, 0 The 
name most ‘probably derived from oem ‘Wan ‘a or and 
dder, in allusion to the poisonous qualities for 
n famous throughout es (According 
to Bergeret, it is heaved from the river Eleboru: 
—MONOGYNIA, 
bd Black Hellebore was used by the ancients to purify their 
houses, and to hallow their dwellings. By str ewing or per- 
uming their apartments wit th this plant, ean believed that 
evil spirits would b 
By the — tow’r 
Where hellebore and hem loc seem to weeys 
Round its dark 
For spirits of the dead at lente ella hour. 
Campbell. 
We find = in the Materia Tatice, ese 3° ‘or hypochon- 
| dria ang man. “ Anatomy of Melan- 
o y.” 
chol 
Borage and hellebore fill two scenes, 
‘Ser eA ge to clear the veins 
nd cheer the h 
the aiid a bower, 
Of wintry si ng. 
*. 
Thy. fancied pride 
tL 
Her home with thee; she wakes and sleeps 
Near thy true side, J. R. Prior. 
It should ies er be ti a 2 pene in the kitchen eed 
since fatal accide: se hay mistaking its 
that of the his ish 
Niger Christ 
or 2 
The ag be wer is iene a like th the 
dogsou—white on frst opening, afterwards with a blush o: 
pink, and finally greenish. The foliage a dark 
green ; leaves pedate, luxuriant. The root 
very dark—consisting of a roundish head, about the size vo a 
nutmeg; from sendin 
fh ¥ 4 sa 
from a span toa foot in in length, deep brown mgr eee white or 
yellow within, and o rid nauseous taste. 
Darwin th this ower— The reso 
large beautiful white spi) adorned with a silo Al 
e little ak pre which a 
ee ago 
pollen, t oes a oes change, th 
pines op off, but tl and gradua ily xed 
te green. isn curious metamorpion of | the ae 
whe en on nectaries fall 0 
h or the purpose 
ved producing honey; because when these 
oved, no more white juice is secreted seperti e 
mes green and degenerates into a calyr.” 
Bright as the silvery plume, or pearly shell, 
The snow-w white rose, or td *s virgin bell, 
he helleborus a ttracti 
= 
Warm’d every sage, and every herd 
The acest divine, that lightened 
Cold are those lips, where smiles seductive bung, 
Fe d the weak accents 
h roseate feature fades to livid green— 
Sauk with face averted, pd the scene. 
Darwin’s Love of the Plants. 
abereed ani eae ee eniepe. In our gardens a hardy shrub. 
