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fielleborus DtribtS. Natural Order: Ranunculacece—Crowfoot Family. 
VERAL plants are known under the name of Hellebore, and 
though belonging to different and distinct families, they all pos¬ 
sess highly poisonous qualities, as the literal translation of their 
botanical name would signify, “ food ol death,' 5 from the com¬ 
bination of two Greek words, elein , to cause death (literally to 
H- take away), and bora , food. Though fatal in inexperienced 
hands, they are exceedingly useful in the hands of educated medical 
men. The ancients were also well acquainted with their merits, as 
they used them for all “ mental diseases, such as madness and idiocy, 
the best growing on the island of Anticyra in the Higean sea. 55 This 
variety is from Europe, is about three feet high, with large, nodding 
flowers, and is grown as an ornamental plant. 
AT OR might nor greatness in mortality 
’ Can censure ’scape; back-wounding calumny 
The whitest virtue strikes; what king so strong 
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue? 
OpHE world with calumny abounds; 
A The whitest virtue slander wounds; 
There are whose joy is, night and day, 
To talk a character away. — Pope. 
— Shakespeare. 
TTTHEN sland’rous tongue thy honor stings, 
** This solace give thee rest: — 
Whatever fruit the autumn brings, 
The wasp will choose the best. 
— G. A. Burger. 
T 
HE ignoble mind 
Loves ever to assail with secret blow 
The loftier purer beings of their kind. 
— IV. G. Simms. 
N O wound which warlike hand of enemy 
Inflicts with dint of sword, so sore doth light 
As doth the poisonous sting which infamy 
Infixeth in the name of noble wight; 
For by no art, nor any leeches’ might 
It ever can received be again. —Spenser. 
