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preffing out the jr, I moiften the bruifed leaves, which 
are a little fucculent, with fome vinegar, which 
Dr, B. {peaks of this plant as ufeful alfo in fome 
althmatic and hypochondriacal diforders. We have tried, 
fays Dr. Woodville, the authelminthic effeéts of this plant, 
upon a girl of twenty years of age, with confiderable ad- 
vantage. Woodv. Med. Bot. 
HELLeEsong, in Gardening, the common name of a well- 
known plant. See Herieporvus. | 
HELLEBORINE, in Botany, fo called on account of 
the refemblance of its leaves to the Helleborus albus of the 
older botanifts, Veratrum album of Linneus. Pin. 
1 ourn. Inft. 436. See Evrpactis. 
HELLEBORUS, 
black hellebore. 
een famous throughout all antiquity. Linn. Gen. 282. 
Schreb. 379. Willd. Sp. Pl - 1335. Mart. Mill. Di 
v.2. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 2. 272. Sm. Fl. Brit. 598. Prodr 
Grec. v. 1. 386. . Tourn. t arck 
uff. 
Gen. Ch. Cal. none, (unlefs the corolla, which in fome 
{pecies is permanent, be taken for fuch, with Juffieu). Cor. 
Petals five or i ri 
eft; the upper, or inner 
one longeft, at length burfting. Seeds fev round, af- 
dges. ire Sh 
Eff. Ch. Calyx none. Petals five, or more. Ne@aries 
tubular, two-lipped. Capfules compreffed, nearly ereé, 
with many feeds é 
The followin five are the only genuine fpecies of this 
genus, as far as hitherto difcovered, ee 
1. H. niger. Linn. Sp. Pl.'783. Curt. Mag. 
Woodv. Med. Bot. t. 18. Jacq. Auitr. t. 201. 
flore rofeo; Bauh. Pin, 186. 
976).—Leaves pedate. Flower-ftalks radical, one or two- 
t. 8. 
( 4 niger, 
- niger verus; Ger. Em, 
flowered eas evate.—Native of rocky mountains in 
i and G - In our ga i 
foliage. ots 
- y black externally, with 
impic, perpendic res. This {pecie s 
was univerfally taken for the true black hellebore of the an- 
cients, till Tournefort found what he fufpeGed to be the true 
one. See H, -Oficinalis. on Bas RES " 
BeEsL 
Sp. Pl. 784. Jacq. Auftr: t. 106, 
34. Engl. Bot. 
2. Mi: viridis. Iuinn, 
Taleo Gicts £, 
Leaves fingered. 
. Lond. faf 
boraftrum 
Ger. E 
rum 3 | m. 976.)— Is. 
{preading. Flower-ftalks radical, many-flowered.  Bra@eas - 
eeply lobed, ferrated. Native o itony, rather moun- 
tainous places in Auttria, Stiria, Switzerland, &c. found 
occafionally on a chalky foil in England. On -reconfider- 
ing this plant, we are convinced that a real item is erro- 
neoufly attributed to it in #/. Brit. and Lnglifo Botany. 
The deaves are indeed all radical, much narrower than thofe 
of the firft {pecies, digitate, fearcely pedate. The flower- 
fralks alfo radical, taller than the 
about three green expanded flowers, and feveral alternate, 
lar i 
bradeas. 
i ed to the ancient: 
Greek plant than the foregoing. 
+ FL. officinalis. Salil. Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 8 305.. 
Sm. Prodr. Fl. Gree. v. 1. 386. (H. orientalis ; La- 
marck, Did. v. 3. 96. Willd. Sp. Pl. n. $< H i 
talis, ampliflimo folio, caule przalto, 
Tourn. C 
ftantinople, by Dr. I. Sibthorp, 
AAtBovos pedas Of Diofcori 
reeks na 
moft like thofe‘of the latt 
and their lobes elliptical, twice the breadth of that {pecies. 
The Sse ared do not rife above the leaves, but are’ 
ed, bearing five or fix drooping concave floqwers, 
white, turning purplith 
tween the firit and fecond fpecies.. The numerous, fingered, 
ferrated, leafy draéteas accord more with the latter. A 
cal qualities of the root are acrid and violently purgative, 
preceding is the fafeft fubftitute for it, 
while the following, which has fome- 
times been ufed by fraud or miftake, is more violent and 
dangerous. 
4- H. fetidus. Linn, Sp. 784. Bulliard. t. 71. Engl. 
Bot. t. 613. Woody. Med. Bot. t. 19. (Helleboralter 
maximus ; Ger. Em. 1338.)—Stem leafy, many-flowe ed. 
ves pedate; lobes lanceolate. Bra¢teas fimple, entire. 
Petals clofed.—Native of Germany, Switzerland, Frances 
th us it prefers a chalky foil, among 
ing in February or 
any of the former, green, acquiring a dark 
ge in decay, Dr. Woodville ftrongly recom- 
mends this plant to kill worms in children. The dofe is 
about 15 grains of the dried leaves in powder, for two or 
three fucceffive mornings, for a child between four or feven 
years of age, which proves gently emetic and purgative. 
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Kew. v 2. 272 Curt. Mags . 
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