Pl.ex.thal. 85. RANUNCULACEiE. 461. Helleb. 713 
Helleborus niger hortensis flore viridi, Raii Syn. 271, 1. 
Hellehorastrum, Ger. em. 976, 2. 
Helleboraster minor, flore viridante, Park. 212. 
Helleborus viridis, Lin. S. P. 784. 
Wild black hellebore. Bears foot. 
Woods and pastures on chalk; perenn.; March to May. 
Roots fleshy; fibres long; herb quite bald; stem forked 
at top ; leaves shining ; root-leaves growing Ipnger than the 
stem after flowering; lobes oblong, lanceolate, acutely ser- 
rated, outer lobes often 2 or 3-cut ; stem-leaves 3 or 
5-parted; flowers green, slightly drooping. — Leaves in- 
fused in beer used as a prophylactic in epidemic fevers, are 
violently purgative, and vermifuge. 
b. Stem many-flowered , leafy • peduncles bracteated . 
2. Helleborus foetidus. Slinking hellebore . 
Stem many-flowered, leafy ; leaves pedately cut, quite 
bald ; lobes oblong, linear. 
Helleboraster maximus, Raii Syn. 271,2; Ger. em. 976, 3. 
Helleboraster maximus seu Consiligo, Park, 212. 
Helleborus foetidus, Lin. S. P. 784. 
Great ox heel. Bearsfoot setterwort. 
Chalky shady places ; perennial; March and April. 
Ste?n panicled ; leaves blackish green ; bractece ovate, 
not cut, tip deeply toothed, pale yellowish green; flowers 
drooping ; sepales erect, connivent, green with a purple 
edge, persistent; camares 3 or 4.— Root purgative; root or 
stem used as a seton by the ferriers. 
VI. 462. TROLLIUS. Linnseus. Globe-flower. 
Calyx coloured, 5, 10, or 15-sepaled; sepales deciduous, 
petal-like ; petals 5 to 20, small, tubular at bottom, 1 -lipped ; 
stamens and ovaries many; camares many, sessile, nearly 
cylindrical, many-seeded. — Plant herbaceous, bald, upright, 
perennial; root fibrous; fibres black, in bundles; leaves 
petioled, palmately m any-cut ; flowers terminal, yellow. 
Trollius Europceus. European globe-flower. 
Sepales 15, connivent, forming a ball; petals 5 or 10, as 
long as the stamens. 
Ranunculus globosus, Raii Syn. 272; Ger. em. 955, 12; Park. Par. 218. 
Trollius Europseus, Lin. S. P. 782. 
Trollius altissimus, Crantz Austr. 2, 123- 
Trollius globosus, Lamark FI. Fr. 3, 323. 
Trollius connivens, Mcench Meth. 313. 
Trollius montanus, Salisbury Prod. 373. 
Tr-dlius sphaericus, Salisb. Tr. Soc. Lin. 8,302. 
Globe crowfoot, Locker Rowlands, 
