HEL 
t.72. (Ti. feetidus 9; Linn. Sp. Pl. 784. H. niger trifo- 
liatus 5 Ald. Hort. Farn. 93. t. g2.)—Stem leafy, many- 
flowered. » Leaves ‘ternate. Braéteas fimple, ferrated.— 
_Firft deferibed by Aldinus amongtt his defcriptions of rare 
plants cultivated in the Farnefe garden at Rome, in 1625. preg 
He received it from Henry Corvinus, a botanift and apo- 
thecary at Delft, and Lamarck, who i 
{eribes it by the name of ¢riphyllus, v. 3. 97, fays he has 
n itin the gardens at Vienna and Stra urg, yet its na- 
tive country is unknown. ith us It is ee rare, and not 
aie hardy. t flowers in winter time, 
ei ponte 
res its ternate and more ovate kaves. The 
plith. 
hree more fpecies are found in Willdenow comprehend- 
ed pee this genus. 
H. Ayemalis. Linn. Sp. Pl. 783. Jacq. Auftr. t. 202. 
Bullard. “4 35. Curt. Mag. t. 3. Native of the aisitisai 
of Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy ; common in 
our gardens in {pring, where it comes forth with the Snow- 
drop and Crocus. This i is a little herbaceous plant, with a 
yellow flower, whofe petals are, as Linneus o erves, deci- 
duous. For this reafon, Salifbury has made it a diftinét 
genus, in Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 8. 303. | BY the name of 
Lranthis, from rx, to love, aS v9o:5 a and its habit, 
— fo widely different from Hadl-bess, *itr celeg he juitifies the 
meafure, 
2. H. ranunculinus. Sm. Pl. Ic. t. 37. (H. niger orien- 
tt ranuneuli folio, flore nequaquam globofo; Tourn 
Cor. 20. Trollius humilis, flore patulo ; — Cent. 1. 
$32..-T. satolued Salif. Tr. of L. See. 8. 303.)— 
oo of Cappadocia. When firft deferibed vot ‘Tourne- 
ort’s herbarium, it was referred to Helleborus, becaufe of 
S affinity to the Ayemalis, but it has perhaps more the habit 
. of Trollius. €taries, however, do not agree with this 
ular 
= i. Linn, Sp. Pl. 784. Am. Acad. v. 2. 356- 
- Dan. t. 566. Michaux Boreal. Am. v. 
325-— “Native 6 Siberia, Iceland, Labradore, Canada ;— $5 
t bog-mo 
8 allo a deciduous Salles and i ite habit i is totally wide of 
: Sieh ‘ = nom ley Lo cut, 
i leaves and 
vara ig on the north-wett i ve of America, from whom we 
ave fpecimens and a coloured drawing. 
rape refer both = to T/opyrum, for want of a fuffi- 
Sently decided character n the fructification. 
Hewimsonus, im , comprehends plants of the 
- tous perennial kind ; of which the {pecies moft gene- 
ra'ly cultivated are, the 
winter hellebore, or er ch winter 
“aconite CH. ss 3 the black hellebore, o: 
fiiuking 1 hellebore, 
P = ee great three-fowered black he 
n his Dictionary de- ter. 
i bate on each fide. 
HE. ih 
The fecond fpecies may be multiplied by dividing the 
roots in the autymnal feafon, and plantin ‘them out in fuch 
places as are moift, warm, and fheltered in the different clumps, 
borders, and other parts — — sp is frefh, and not im- 
nated with manure. But may flower in perfec- 
tion it fhould have the pe of stir during the win- 
And in this view a few of the plants may be placed in 
pots, which will afford great convenience for the purpofe. 
n the third and fourth fpecies the increafe may be readily 
effected by fowing the feeds, either in the fituations where 
the plants are to grow, or in beds formed for the purpofe, 
in the autumn or {pring months, thinning the young plants 
out afterwards to a few, or tranf{planting them into other 
beds, to be poet in rows at the djitance of a foot from each 
otner. 
They often come up well from felf-fown feed, and fucceed 
perfectly in fhady places. 
And the laft {pecies is capable of er poate either by 
fowing eh feeds or dividing the ro The 
eed d be put into the entire’ or the 
planted out, during the vite on either in pots of light frefh. 
mould, or in warm protected parts of the clumps and bor- 
ders. The plants home in h te after treatment, be pro- 
tected in the green- -houfe, or in the ground by the ufe of hand 
glaffes, during the winter feafon. But they are far from 
mecreafing fat fin either of thefe modes. 
It thefe plants are of 96 ornamental clafs, the firft fort 
adorning the fore parts of the beds, clumps, and borders, 
while the _ and fourth fpecies read their effects to 
the larger compartments, and the wildernefs quarters, atid 
the a and lait difplay ates among the potted col- 
le& 
HELLEH, Heian, or Hillah, in Geography, wn 
of the Arabian Irak, fituated on both fides ot the mg vaio 
with a bridge of communication, a d to have been 
built on the icite of the ancient Baby The gardens are _ 
covered with fruit-trees, particularly palms, fo that the town 
appears as fituated in a w ood 5 5 60 miles S$. of Bagdad. N. 
lat. 32° 20’. W. long. 43° 45'. 
HELLEFORS, a town of Sweden, in Nericia ; 40 miles. 
N.N.W. of Orebro 
HELLELANDS, a town of Norway, im the diveefe of 
Chriftianfand ; 26 miles $. of Stavanger. 
HELLE or in Ancient se See GReECIA 
NIA, in Botany, 1o named by Willdenow” i in 
=a) 
HELL 
honour of rote <a re profeffor of — nip 
re 
phy at Abo in Fink 
Rhad: Willd. Sp. 
orders Monandria Monogynia. 
pane ch. Cal. Perianth ne tee a: one: leaf, tubular. 
Cor. of one petal; tube the length of the pala § outer 
limb in three deep fegments, the u a one largett and. 
pointed ; inner of one lip, longer, with a little tooth at the 
pia Filament cne, linear, fhorter than: 
the inner lip, extended a litle beyond the anther, in a {mall 
Planting oF Ce aioe let: i has leaves are de- rounded, ve Jobe, either entire or cloven ; anther at- 
eayed, towards the end of the fummer feafon, in the fitua- tached by its back, of two elliptical lobes, with a channel 
tions in which they are to grow ‘and flower, in {pots of between them. Pi. Germen yeoundith, with pee 
Aevetal fogether. “They have’a very good effedt when in- papi oe ee ae 
: ad” 5 ie heir bei en: ; - crits L un ae as 
_ habit of so cond ewig Aare es — gabon vse hd ceous, ‘brittle, threecelled Seeds feveral im 
* fame per : : parted from eich vel, nearly kadiney-thaped; ‘eas with a, foft 
: us. 
