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Show Guiesst. T Rr1BE2, TheatrumBotanicum. t. Helleborus niger verus. Blacke Hellebor or Chriftmas flower, : 2, 3. Helleboraiter minor, @ Wifoltus/pimofus. — Baftard blacke Hellebot or Beares foote, and withtrefoilprickly leaves, : BOGices hu, Nae eyaD, EE CO/ wh Keal EN y \ dD Lhe Theater of Plants. feede inthem, the'rootes are more firingie blacke and hard than the former. 3. Helleborafter alter trifolius. fpine{vs, Trefoile Prickly Cuar.25, _ 5. Helliborus niger ferulaccus. Fennell kafed baftard blacke Hellebor. leafed Bearefoore. This fortdiffereth little inthe manner of growing, from the laft deferibed ,| having long ftalkes. with leaves thereon, and flowers at the toppes of the fame ZV id JRiseE 2. fafhion and fo is the feede alfo that followeth, but the leaves are harder,and onlydivided into three partes, & the dentes about the edges are hard fharpe andprickly; the flowers being of a paler ot whiter greene colour, 4. Helleborafter maximus five Confiligo. The grea- 1B. Z y teft baftard blacke Hellebor, or Bearefoote, called alfo Setterwort. This great Bearefoote hath diverfe fad greeneleaves, rifing from the rootes, each upon along ftalke, which are divided into 7 or 9 divifionsor leaves, each where- ofis narrower than the leffer baftard blacke Hellebor or Bearefoote, nicked or dented about the edges, but not fo deepely, and abiding above ground greeneall the winter, whereas the other perifheth as I faid every yeare, and rifethagaine in the {pring : this fhooteth up areafonable great and rall ftalke, higher by the halfe thanthe other, with {uch like leaves thereon as grow Wa fh below, fmallerup tothe toppe, where it {preadeth into divers branches,bearing many hollow cup-like fowers, divided at the brims into § parts, but doe feldome fpread thefelves open,ofa whtifh yellowgreenecolour NN > pe, 5 Ne fomewhatlike the other baftard kind,& fometimes purplith aboutthe brims or edges,with a greene head inthe middle,& a few white threads aboutit:(wherby it may wh feemelikely to be that fourth kind of Veratrum nigrum of Clufiws, which he calleth peregrinum , and faith is fides, abiding greene all the Winter, at which time the flowers rife on the like fhortftalkes, as the leaves grow on, without any leafe thereon for the moft part, yet fometimes having a finall fhort pale greene leafe, refembling rather skin than aleafe a, little under the Hower, and grow butlittle higher than the leaves: each ftalke alfo beareth ufually but oneflower, yet fometimes two, cons fifting of fivelarge round whiteleaves a peece like untoa greatefingle white Rofe, changing fometimes to be ej- ther dafht with a purple abourthe'edges or to be wholl purple without any white in theii,as the weatheror time of continuance doth effe&, with many pale yellow thrums inthe middle, ftanding about a greenc head; which after growethto be the feede veffell, divided into fe. verall cells or podes likeunto a Cotombine head or Aco- nitum hyemale, but greater and thicker, wherein is contained fomewhat long and roundblackifh feede, like the feedes of the baftard kindes: therootes are anumber of brownith blackeftrings, which runne downe deepe intothe ground, and are fattened to a thicke head, of the bigneffe of ones finger, Of this kinde there is an other whofe flower is red fromthe firft opening, which Be/Florevabro. lonius remembreth in his obfervations to have feene in the woods of Greece, x a flore viridante, Baftard blacke or Bearefoote. Ak a baftard Hellebor or Bearefoote is in molt things like unto the former true blacke Hellebor. for it beareth alfo manyleaves uponfhort ftalkes divided into ofadore but each of them are longer and narrower, foa gh ee colour dented on both fides, and feele t hard, perifhing every yeare, but rife agai the nextwiht Spring: the flowe fakes, uy : ts hereof Rand oly {tand Hstec on higher > me leaves on them alfo yet very few. and are of a pale greene colour like tha farther but {maller bythe halfe at leaft, having likewife ma , ereenith yellow threads or cients. in the “mide die, and fuch like héads , or feede yeffells and. blac kith Z: He'leboraffer maximus five j Confilizo. The greateft battaid blacke e e foore called Setterworte, likeunto the third of Dodonews, whofe figure as hee faith, he fheweth there, to be knowne which he mea6. Heleborus niger Sanicule folio major, The greater purging Sanicle like Hellebor. | 8. Epipaétis Matthioli, Mattbioles his baftard blacke Hellebor, |