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fides, abiding greene all the Winter, at which time the 
flowers ri fe on the like fhort ftalkes, as the leaves grow 
on, without any leafe thereon for the moft part, yet lome- 
timeshaving a fm all fhort pale greene leafe, refembling 
rather a skin than a leafe, a little under the flower, and 
grow but little higher than the leaves: each ftalke alfo 
beareth ufually but one flower, yet foinetimes two, con¬ 
fiding of five large round white leaves a peece like unto a 
greatc Angle white Rofe, changing fometimes to be ei¬ 
ther dafht with a purple about the edges or to be wholly 
purple without any white in them,as the weather or time 
of continuance doth effeft, with many pale yellow 
thrums in the middle, (landing about a greene head, which 
after groweth to be the feede veflell, divided into fe- 
vcrall cells or podes like unto a Colombine head or Aco~ 
mum l:yemale t but greater and thicker, wherein is 
contained fomewhat long and round blackifh feede, like 
thefeedes of the bafiard kindes: therootesare a num¬ 
ber ofbrownilh blackefirings,which runne downe deepe 
into the ground, and are faftened to a thicke head, of the 
bignefle of ones finger. Of this kinde there is an other 
whofe flower is red from the firft opening, which Bel- 
Fiojembro. i on - msxt mcm brcth in his obfervations to havefeenc in the 
woods of Greece. 
2. Helleborafter minorfloreviridar.te, Baflard blacke 
Hellebor or Bearefoote. 
The fmaller baflard Hellebor or Bearefoote is in mod 
things like unto the former true blacke Hellebor, for it 
beareth alfo many leaves upon fhort ftalkes divided into 
many parts, but each of them are longer and narrower, 
of a darker greene colour dented on both fides, and feele 
fomewhat hard, perilling every yeare, but rife againe 
the next Spring: the flowers hereof (land on higher 
ftalkes, with fome leaves on them alfo, yet very few, 
and are of a pale greene colour like the former, 
but fmaller by the halfe at leaft, having likewife many 
greenilh yellow threads or thrummes, in the mid- 
„ and fuch like heads, or feede velfells and blackilh 
3 - Heileborafter maximum f ive coaftlieo. 
Thcgrcatcil ball aid blacke Hellebor ot Bcaresfootc 
called SettcrvYorte. 
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