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Helleborine minor flore purpurante.
THe small purplish Hellebor is like the last described, but that the leaves are narrower, the flowers smaller, and of purplish blush-colour.
The true black Hellebor flowreth about Christmas, the two white Hellebors in June, the Ladies Slipper, and the white Helleborine in the end of April or beginning of May, and that with the purplish flow∣er about the beginning of June.
The roots of the black and white Hellebor are hardy, and abide long unremoved, therefore fit to be at first set in good ground and where they may stand: the Helleborines are found wild in some parts of York and Lancashire, and therefore do not require too rich a soil. I received all the varieties before mentioned from that honest Gen∣tleman, my never to be forgotten friend, Mr. Roger Brodshaw, who found them in the shady woods near his house in Lancashire; there is another small Plant which may properly be mentioned in this place, of which a word or two before we conclude this Chapter.