686 POLYANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. Helleboeus. 
Jacq. Austr. 106— Curt. — Blackw. 509 and 510— E. Bot. 200— Kniph. 1 — 
Fuchs. 274— J. B. iii. 636— Clus. i. 275. 1— Dod. 385. 2— Loh. Ohs. 387. 
2. and 1c. i. 680. 2— Ger. Em. 9 76. 2— Park. 212. 2 and 3— II. Ox. xii. 
4. 5— Ger. 825. 2—Trag. 40 5—Lonic. i. 171. 2 —Matth. 1221. 
Pistils three, sometimes four, rarely five. Crantz. Segments of the leaves 
deeply serrated, particularly upwards. Flowers mostly two ; drooping, 
yellowish green, (as are the large calyx leaves. E) Root fleshy, black, with 
many long fibres. Stem upright, a foot high, forked at the top, leafy, 
smooth. Leaves large, smooth, shining; root-leaves petiolate, stem- 
leaves sessile. FI. Brit. E.) 
Green-flowered Hellebore. Woods and dry pastures in chalky soil. 
Bigwin Closes, Ditton, and Whitwell, Cambridgeshire. Arundel Castle, 
Sussex. Knowlton, E. Kent; and Stoken Church, Oxfordshire. Orchard 
near Mr. Ballard’s, Robinson’s End, Malvern Chase. Mr. Wells. Near 
Piersbridge, but scarce. Mr. Robson. (Near Harefield, Middlesex. 
Miss Jane Baynes. FI. Brit. Kiddow Lane, between Leeds and Tad- 
caster; about Aberford. Rev. W. Wood. Banks of the river opposite 
the mill, Knaresborough. Rev. J. Dalton. Bot. Guide. In the wood 
above Tollard Royal, Dorset. Dr. Pulteney. Hedge banks between the Dell 
and Longridge, Painswick. Mr. O. Roberts. Banks of the Tees, near 
Whorlton. Winch Guide. In the deep stony lane on the left hand, just 
before the turning to Norton farm, and at the top of Middle Dorton 
under the hedge, near Selborne. White’s Nat. Hist. Dunglass glen. 
Dr. Parsons, in Lightf. Westfield wood, near Sandgate, Kent. Mr. Lee, 
in Sm. Obs. In a field near Studley Castle, Warwickshire. Purton. 
Between Rosmorran and Thenegie, Cornwall, near the brook. Dr. Forbes. 
E.) ^ P. March—May.* 
H. fcet'idus. Stem many-flowered, leafy : leaves pedate: petals con¬ 
verging. 
( E.Bot. 613. E.) — IVoodv. 19— Kniph. 12— Blackw. 57— Fuchs. 275— J. B. 
iii. 880— Trag. 251—Dod. 386— Loh. Obs. 387. 4, and 1c. i. 680. 1— Ger. 
Em. 976. 4 —Loh. Ohs. 387. 3. and Ic. i. 679. 2—Ger. Em. 976. 3—Park. 
212. 3— II. Ox. xii. 4. 6—Ger. 826. 
(Plant bushy, fetid, evergreen. E.) Leaves deep, lurid, green. Branches , 
leaf-stalks, floral-leaves, and flowers pale greenish yellow. Stipulce at the 
divisions of the branches oval-spear-shaped, embracing the stem, solitary, 
with three deep clefts at the end tinged with purple. Floral-leaf oval- 
spear-shaped, entire, solitary, at the base of each fruit-stalk, tinged with 
purple. Woodw. Flowers numerous, panicled, drooping, globose, green, 
or tinged with purple at the edges. Stem about a vard high, pale, leafy. 
E.) 
Bear’s-foot. Setterwort. Fetid Hellebore. (Irish: Crub Mahuin ; 
JDahow L)uh. Welsh: Crafrange yr arth; Llewyg y llyngyr. E.) 
Meadows, shady places, and hedges. Cherry-Hinton, Fulbourn, 
Triplow, Cambridgeshire. Downs near Chichester, Sussex. Woods 
* A violent cathartic not to be administered without caution ; being nearly similar in 
effect to its congener, and on the Continent often adopted for that. The powdered leaves, 
used as snuff, are said to have cured several cases of nyctalopia, and to be worthy of trial 
in other diseases of the eyes. (These species will flourish under trees, and are ornamental 
in shady walks and shrubberies. E.) 
