. Flowers of the field. Botany. THALAMIFLOR^ 9. Helleborus {Hellebore) I. K. viridis (Green Helle- bore, Bear's - foot). — Leaves digitate ; sepals spreading ; petals tubular, shorter than the calyx, containing honey which is said to be poisonous. A coarse, herbaceous plant, re- markable for the light green hue of its flowers. Height 12-18 inches.—Fl. March, April. Perennial. 2. H. fcetidus (Stinking Helle- bore, Setter-wort).—-Leaves pe- date ; sepals converging. Best distinguished from the preced- ing by its evergreen leaves, which arc not divided to a com- mon centre, and by the purple hue
. Flowers of the field. Botany. THALAMIFLOR^ 9. Helleborus {Hellebore) I. K. viridis (Green Helle- bore, Bear's - foot). — Leaves digitate ; sepals spreading ; petals tubular, shorter than the calyx, containing honey which is said to be poisonous. A coarse, herbaceous plant, re- markable for the light green hue of its flowers. Height 12-18 inches.—Fl. March, April. Perennial. 2. H. fcetidus (Stinking Helle- bore, Setter-wort).—-Leaves pe- date ; sepals converging. Best distinguished from the preced- ing by its evergreen leaves, which arc not divided to a com- mon centre, and by the purple hue of its sepals. Fl.—March, April. Perennial. These two species may possi- bly be natives of one or two of the soiithern counties of Eng- Helleborus Viridis land ; but they are generally {Green Hellebore) considered naturalized garden escapes. Both are found on cal- careous soils, and both are remarkable for their large green sepals and for the large tubular petals, in whose honey small flies may sometimes be found caught. Closely allied with this genus is the common garden flower, Eranthis hyemalis (Winter Aconite), a pretty little plant, with yellow flowers and glossy leaves, appear- ing very early in spring. 10. Aquilegia (Columbine) I. A. vulgaris (Common Columbine).—The only British species, common in gardens, to which it is in spring very ornamental, with its delicate folded leaves, and no less so in summer, with its gracefully borne flowers, of curious shape and many delicate shades of colour. When growing wild its flowers are blue, white, or duU purple. It may be distinguished from all other British flowers by having each of its five petals terminated in an in- curved hornlike spur. It derives its English name. Columbine, from the fancied resemblance of its flowers to a nest of doves, columha being the Latin for a dove. Open woods.—Fl, June, July. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enha
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