HELLEBORUS dumetorum.
Bush Hellebore.
Natural Order R a n u n c u la c e æ . D C . syst. v. 1. p. 127.
_ Tribus H e L L E B O R E J E . Æstivatio calycis et corollæ
im b ric a t^ Pétala nunc 0, nunc irregularia bilabiata necta-
rifera. CaZya: petaloideus. Carpella capsularia dehiscentia
polysperma. D C. p. 130.
H E L L E B O R U S . Calyx persistens 5-sepalus, sepalis
subrotundis obtusis magnis sæpè viridibus. Pétala 8-10 brevissima
tabulata inferné angustiora nectarifera. Stamina 30-60
Ovaría 3-10. Stigmata terminalia orbiculata ; capsula coria-
oe æ ; semina duplici serie disposila elliptica umbilicata—
Herbæ perennes dura coriacea glabra aut vix sub foliis pubescentes;
foha radicalia petiolata palmatim pedatimve secta
segmentis oblongis dentatis ; caulina sape nulla, formâ variâ •
caules nunc ramosi multiflori foliosi, nunc subramosi bracteas
sub ramis gerentes paucijlori, nunc apliylli uniflori.
, . “ •, Radices intense purgantes cholagogæ, iñ mania, epilepsia,
hydropysia et hepaticis morbis olim et nunc celêberrimæ
H a b . Species omnes hyeme aut vere florenfes, aspera
dumetaque submontana Europæ mèdiæ et Orientis habitant
præsertim a Pyrenæis ad Caucasum. D C. l. c. p . 316.
§. I I . Caulepauciflorasubdichotomo fo lia floraliasûbsessilia
jissa aut incisa gerente.
H . dumetorum, foliis radicalibus glaberrimis pedatisectis ; caulinis
subsessilibus palmatisectis, caule tereti bifide ramoso,
sepalis calycinis subrotundis viridibus, DC. syst. 1. p. 390*
prodr. 1. p. 47. j f ■
Helleborus dumetorum. Waldstein et K it. ex Willden. enum.
V. 2. p . 592. Hort. sub. lond. p . 129. Lin k enum. 2. p . 98.
Stem short, round, from 4 to 6 inches in height,
forked: branches leafy, obsoletely 3-angled, sometimes
divided, each branch producing from 1 to 3
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