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nately. We have but one fpecies of this plant, ^7Z.' 
Limodorum Auftriacum Cluf. R . 383. Orchis ahor- 
tiva violacea^ C. 86. Nidus avis purpureus.^ P. 
j 3 6 2 . Purple Birds N eil. 
Hellebqrine, Hellebore. The roots are fibrous : 
The flower is anomalous, and confiflis of fix dif- 
fimilar petals ; five are placed orbicularly, and 
one fliands lower, and is gutter’d : The fruit has 
three windows, and valves adhering thereto: 
The feed is fmall like dull. The fpecies are : 
1. Helleborine latifolia montana.^ R.383, C. 186. 
Nellehorine., ( 7 . 358. Ellehorine fiore viridante^ P/ 
218. The moft: Common Baftard Hellebore. The 
leaves are broad and nervous, adhering to the flalk 
without pedicles : T'he flalk, from the middle to the 
top, bears flowers alternately, like thofe of Orchis, 
compofed of two whitifli leaves, and three herbace- I 
ous ones, all expanded ; and in the middle thereof I 
appears, as it were, the disbo well’d Body of a fly, of 
a purplifh white colour : The fruit is channell’d, 
and fupported by fiiort pedicles. 
2. Helleborine altera atro-rubente flore., R. 383, 
C. 186. Baftard Hellebore, with a blackifh flower. 
The leaves are narrower than thofe of the former, 
and grow thicker on the ftalk: The flowers are of 
a dark red colour, and blow later. | 
3 Helleborine flore albo.^ R. 383, G. 358.. flore 
albo vel Damafonium montanum latifolium^ C. 187. 
Elleborine minor flore albo ^ P. 218. White-flower ’d 
Baftard Hellebore. The flowers oftliis are milk white. ' 
4. Helleborine latifolia flore albo claufo^ R. 384. 
Broad-leav’d Baftard Plellebore, with a white ftiut 
flower. Near Digg's well, in Hartfordjhire. | 
5. Helleborine joliis prHongis anguflis acutis^ R. 
384. Baftard Black Hellebore, with very long, 1 
narrow, ftiarp-pointed leaves. The root is compo- 
fed of a great number of thick fibres : The leaves 
are long, refenibling thofe of reeds : The ftalk rifes 
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