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A DICTIONARY OF 
Hellebore, Fetid. A mere translation of tlie Latin Hellehorus 
fmtidus, L. — With. ed. vii. Prior, p. 108. 
Hellebore, Green. See Green Hellebore. 
Hellebore, White. Veratrum album, L. — Lyte. 
Hellebore, Winter. ErantMs hy emails, L. — Prior, p. 108. 
Helleborine. A general book-name for the species of Epipadis 
and Cephalanthera, With. ed. ii. Prior, p. 108. 
Hellweed. (1) Cuscuta Epithymum, L., and C. europcea, L. — 
Grows ‘ upon tares more abundantly in some places, where it 
destroyeth the pulse, or at the least maketh it much worse, and is 
called of the country people Hell-weede, because they know not how 
to destroy it.’ Park. Theatr. 10. Camh. Loudon’s Mag. of Nat. Hist. 
V. 506; Nhamp. Sternb. ; Suss. See Devil’s Guts (1). 
(2) Convolvulus sepium, L. — Nhamp. Nth. Gloss. Wr. 
(3) Ranunculus arvensis, L. — Yhs. 
Helm. Ulmus campestris, L., and U. montana, L. — Gloii. (Cots- 
wolds). Cots. Gloss. 
Helme. Psamma arenaria, Beauv. — ‘ The Dutch [call it] Halm, 
and we in English Helme.' Park. Theatr. 1200. 
Helmet Flower. (1) Aconitum Napellus, L. — Ger. It ‘beareth 
very faire and goodly blew flowers, in shape like an helmet.’ Ger. 823. 
(2) A book-name for the genus Scutellaria. — Prior, p. 108. 
Heltrot. Heradeum Sphondylium, L. — Hants. See Eltrot. 
Hemlock, or Hemlocks (in Markham’s Farewell to Husbandry, bk. 
ii. p. 2, Hemblock). When used absolutely, as by Shakespeare (K. 
Lear, Act v. sc. 4, &c.), this signifies Conium maculatum, L. (Lyte, 
Turn. Names), but it is frequently applied, as in the E. Bord. district, 
to several of the large Umbelliferoe. The ‘ large hemlock ’ of Sir 
Walter Scott was '^T6ha\y\j Angelica sylvestris, L. ; his ‘small hem- 
lock,’ possibly Anthriscus sylvestris, Hoffm., which is called hemlock in 
Ches. and N. Yks. 
‘ Their oaten pipes blew wondrous shrill, 
The hemlock small blew clear ; 
And louder notes from hemlock large. 
And bog-reed, struck the ear.’ 
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, ii. 348 (ed, 1861), 
Boys use the stems of Angelica sylvestris to make whistles of in N. 
Line. With. (ed. ii.) calls Hdthusa Cynapium, L., Lesser Hemlock. 
The name is also spelt Homlocke (Ger.) and Homloke (Bot. E. 
Bord.) ; and also Humlock, which see. 
Hemlock, Water. (1) CEnanthe crocata, L. — Cumh. E. D. S. Gloss. 
C. 8 ; Suss. 
(2) Gdinanthe Phellandrium, L. — Ger. ‘ The leaves shoote foorthof 
the ioints and branches like unto wilde Homlocks.’ Ger. 904. 
(3) Cicuta virosa, L. — Prior, p. 108 
Hemlock Chervil. See Chervil, Hemlock. 
