2 i8 Chap.26 
Tbeatrum Botanicum , 
Tribe 2 . 
faMon with fmall fhott leaves at the flalke of every flower', which conflfleth of five fmall white leaves j 
with a fmall clofe hood in the middle without any fent at all: thefeede ts alike and fo aretherootes but 
< Ellcborine minor fiore ptirpurMte. The fmall wilde white Hellebor with blufliflowers. 
The leaves hereof arc narrower than the laft.the flalke and flowers are alike but fmaller and of a pale purphfhl 
or blufh colour. viridante _ wi id white Hellebor with whitifih greene flowers/ 
This differeth not much from the laft, but in the colour of the flower which is greemfli on the outfideandl 
fomewhat white within. . . , , ■ 
7 EUeborinc fiore atro-rnbente, Wilde white Hellebor with darke red flowers. 
This wilde kinde groweth fomewhat bigger and higher and with larger leaves than any other of thefe fmajli, 
wiidrfortSjthe flowers likewife are more fn number and of a deepe purple colour. 
8 . j Ellcborine ewprtft-ifolia Jfiicata verpcolor. Variable wilde white Hellebor. 
This alfo rifeth fomewhat high,having narrower leaves on the flalke, yet ribbed fomewhat like unto the rib-d 
wort Plantaine : the flalke endeth in a long fpike of fine purple coloured flowers, in tafhion like the reft,but ther 
opening hoodes with their labels are white fpotted on the infide with purphlh fpots: the leaves and rootes ard 
3like - The Flare. . . , _ f 
Both the firft forts grow in fundry places of Germany and AuJlnaisClafim faith rfialtTthA 
about Raffia w here a good fhip might be fraighted with the rootes of the ordinary fort as M after TrakfcMteibd 
elder affirmed-the other forts grow many of them in our owne land as well as beyond fea, namely the thud 
fourth and fixth; efpecially the third in a wood called the Helkei m Lancajhtre ncere the border of Yorks; 
The Tim. 
The firft do wreth before the fecond, although it fpring earlier out of the ground, bemgnot mfiower until I 
the end of luly, the reft flower about Msay, fome earlyer or later than others. 
The Names. ^ I 
1 have flrewed you in the chapter before that it is called f(/*» or Mf»«, &c. The firft is generall 
called Hellehorm and by ‘Dodom.uficrdm upon Viofcorides and others Veratrum album fimlandmu took I 
to be the Hellebmu undidHsohbs Grecians, but is affurcdly the Coblige of y ■ e gtMt,Abf]rtni, Colmdlasm 
