Archive image from page 154 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom cyclopediaofamer03bail Year: 1906 HELLEBORUS stem over 1 ft. high, forked above, 2-6-fld., large, leaf- like bracts; sepals roundish, imbricated, white, purple beneath and purple edges, spreading: capsule
Archive image from page 154 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom cyclopediaofamer03bail Year: 1906 HELLEBORUS stem over 1 ft. high, forked above, 2-6-fld., large, leaf- like bracts; sepals roundish, imbricated, white, purple beneath and purple edges, spreading: capsules oblong, shorter than the sepals, transversely ribbed : style erect or incurved. Asia Minor. Gn. 47, p. 136. —There are nu- merous varieties of this beautiful species, c. Purple-fid. varieties. Var. Cdlchious, Kegel. Stem purple-spotted, quite glaucous: 1 leaf to each fiower-stem: Us. 3-6 on a stem deep bright purple, both inside and out. Asia Minor BM. ioHl ( il. atrorubens). Gt. 1860:293, Var. Col- chicus-punctitus, T. Moore. Pis. deeper plum-purple more glaucous, exquisitely mottled inside with innumer HELWINGIA 727 1036. Christmas Rose, Helleborus Niger (XH). able dark dots. Gn. 16:189, f. of the handsomest of all the Hellebores. Var. Abchfisicus, A. Braun. Much like var. Colchicus, but differing in having 2 or more Ivs. to a flower-stem. Caucasus region. Gt. 1866:496 (as II. Caucasicus, var. Abchaslcus, Kegel). Var. atrinibens, Waldst. & Kit. Only 1 leaf on a flower-stem, glabrous, thinner in texture than in the rest of the orientalis group: segments narrow: fls. 2-4 on a stem; sepals dark purple outside, greenish purple within. Hungary. 1865:231. —A connecting link between the viridis and orientalis groups. Var. rtibro-purpiireus, Hort. (H. atrnpiirpurea, Hort.). A seedling of var. ,'ith bold foliage and pur- ple flower-stems: fls. spreading, deep purple. Charac- ters well fixed and very handsome. Gn. 16:189, f. 1. 1884:564. Purple
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