Chap. 351. ‘Englijh Herbs. 
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tilh Seed, very like unto the Head of Adonis Flower, 
but much grater. 
VI. The Places. The firft and fecond grow upon 
Hills in Germany, and Mountains in Italy, on the 
Alps, and Pyrnnean Hills ; the third grows, as Clu- 
fws lays , near Vienna in Aujlria , and in both the 
Upper and Lower Hungary but they all three grow 
with us here in England only in Gardens , where 
they flourilh very well. 
VII. The Times. The two firft flower not in 
Winter, but in Summer Months, as in May and 
June , and they abide green all the Year through ; 
the third Flowers in April , if the Weather is warm, 
and its Seed ripens in the Month following. 
VIII. The Qualities , Specification,, Preparations 
and Virtues agree exaQly with thole of the True 
Pdack Hellebor in Chap. 348. aforegoing, and there- 
fore need not be repeated again in this place. 
IX. Qbfervat. I. AJlrantia nigra, the firft of the 
aforegoing, is doubtlels no Mafterworf, as the pur- 
ging faculty does (hew, and it is certain, and leve- 
ral Experienced Phylicians can teftify, that the Roots 
hereof do purge Melancholy, and other Humors, and 
that they have perfeflly cured Melancholy Mad 
People therewith; and that it has this Purging Fa- 
culty, Gc finer does likewife teftify in a certain Epi- 
ftle written to Adolphus Occo , in which he Ihews 
that Alirantia nigra, or Greater Wild Black Helle- 
bor with Sanicle Leaves , is almoft as ftrong as While 
Hellebor, and that he himfelf had made Experiment 
of the Purging Faculty thereof by Stool, which 
tiling befpeaks it to be a Black Hellebor, if not the 
True of Diojcorides. 
X. Obfervat. 2. Dodonaus luppoles this Greater 
Sanicle Leav'd Black Hellebor to be Helleborus verus 
Diofcoridis , (in which I am of Opinion he was de- 
ceived) and therefore afcribes all the Virtues of the 
True Black Hellebor which grows in Anticyra to it ; 
but in a word, this may be faid of it, that it has 
been found by often and good Experience to open 
and Purge the Body of Melancholy Humors, and 
that lafely , without fuch perturbation and trouble 
as is faid to be in the ufe of the other Black Helle- 
bore. 
CHAP. CCCLI. 
Of HELLEBOR White, 
O R, 
SNEEZE-ROOT. v 
H E Names. It is called in Arabick Charba- 
X chem , in Greek 'i-hxtGo&t Aet/x 3 f, in Latine 
Helleborus albus , Veratrum album , and Sanguis Her- 
culeus , in Englijh White Hellebor , and Sneezcroot. 
II. The Kinds. It is twofold, viz. i. Garden 
or True, called limply Helleborus albus , Elleborum 
album , and Veratrum album , of which in this Chap- 
ter. 2. Helleborine , vel Elleborine alba , Wild 
White Hellebor, of which in Chap. 952. 
ID. The Kinds of the Garden or True. Its two- 
iold, viz. t . Helleborus albus , Helleborus albus ve- 
nts, Helleborus albus vulgaris , Veratrum album vul- 
Helleborus Candidas , and Bauhinus adds for 
diftin&ion lake Flore fub viridi and it is certainly 
the Confiligo Vegetij, Abfyrtifolumelk Flinij , The 
Common White Hellebor. 2. Helleborus albus / rx~ 
cox , Elleborum Flore atro rubcnlc , Veratrum album 
pr acox purpura nigricante , The early Flowering 
White Hellebor, or Early Sneezeroot with dark red 
Flowers. 
Hellebor. 
IV. THe Defcriptions. The firft, or Common 
White Hellebor. It has a Root which is great , and 
reafonablc thick at the head, having a number of great 
white Strings, running down deep into the Ground, 
by which it is ftrongly fftned% this Plant riles ;tt 
firft out of the Ground with a great, round, whitilh 
green Head , which growing up opens it felt' into 
many goodly, fair, large, green Leaves, plaited aS 
it were with eminent Ribs all along the Leaves, 
compaffing one another at the bottom , from the 
middle whereof rifes up a ftrong round Stalk, with 
feveral fuch like Leaves, but imaller, to the middle 
thereof, from whence to the top it is divided into 
many Branches , having many fmall yellowifh or 
whitilh green Star like Flowers all along upon them, 
which being paft away turn into linall, long, three- 
fquare, whitilh Seed , Handing naked, without any 
Head or Husk to contain them , thd’ iome Authors 
have Wrote to the contrary. 
V. The fccond, or Early Flowering White Helle- 
bor. It has no fuch tuberous headed Root at the for- 
mer, but eu it were a long bulbous fcaly head, front 
whence Jhoot as many long white Strings as the 'other : 
This Hellebor is very like that juft now deferibed' 
but that it fprings up a Month at leaft before ir, and 
that the. Leaves are broader, longer, thinner, and no 
lels plaited , folding themfelves backwards often- 
times , and fooner perilh , falling away from the 
Plant; the Stalk hereof is higher than the other, 
with fewer Leaves thereon, bearing fuch likeStrny 
Flowers, but of fo dark or blackilh a red color, that 
they are icarcely dilcernable, but at a near diftance, 
after which come frnall Seed, very like the former; 
both thefe Plants k>fe their Leaves wholly , irelh 
fpringing up again every Year. 
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VI. The 
