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	Hellebore - LoveToKnow 1911
		Hellebores may be grown in any ordinary light garden mould, but thrive best in a soil of about equal parts of turfy loam and Helleborus niger.
		According to an early tradition, fl hellebore administered by the soothsayer and physician Melampus (whence its name Melampodium), was the means of curing the madness of the daughters of Proetus, king of Argos.
		The tincture is prepared from the dried rhizome and rootlets of green hellebore, containing the alkaloids jervine, veratrine and veratroidine.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Hellebore (1453 words)

	Hellebore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hellebore (Helleborus) is a genus of 15 species of herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, within which it gave its name to the tribe of Helleboreae.
		Hellebores are widely grown in gardens for decorative purposes, as well as for their purported medicinal abilities and uses in witchcraft.
		Several legends surround the hellebore; in witchcraft it is believed to have ties to summoning demons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hellebore (935 words)

	FanFiction.Net : Dictionary & Thesaurus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		White crop, a crop of grain which loses its green color, or becomes white, in ripening, as wheat, rye, barley, and oats, as distinguished from a green crop, or a root crop.
		White swelling (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee, produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind.
		White of egg, the viscous pellucid fluid which surrounds the yolk in an egg, particularly in the egg of a fowl.
	www.fanfiction.net /dictionary.php?word=White (2651 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - hellebore
		HELLEBORE [hellebore], name usually for plants of the genus Helleborus of the family Ranunculaceae (buttercup family), Eurasian perennials with attractive palmately divided leaves and flowers of various colors.
		Species of the genus Veratrum —which are also poisonous and medicinal and which yield an insecticide—are variously known as false, or American, hellebore and white hellebore; they are unrelated plants of the family Liliaceae (lily family).
		Hellebore is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Ranunculales, family Ranunculaceae.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/h/hellebor.asp (292 words)

	Fraser's Thimble Farms - Perennials
		Flowers vary from white to light creamy yellow, to light green to soft pink and are often speckled.
		This is a showy white fragrant Lily from the Himalayas.
		White tinged purple or green flowers are clustered in axils of whorled leaves.
	www.thimblefarms.com /98prenbtf.html (7273 words)

	25. GREEN FALSEHELLEBORE, WHITE HELLEBORE, INDIAN POKE
		It is possible that the toxins causing birth defects are not the same toxins that affect the grazing animals.
		The toxic component in false hellebore is a mixture of alkaloids (primarily jervine, cyclopamine, and cycloposine).
		The problems in the lamb affect mostly the brain, skull and face, and the lambs can be born with a "monkey-face", or with the eyes in the center of the face ("cyclops") or hydrocephalus, or failure of the head to develop.
	www.vet.purdue.edu /depts/addl/toxic/plant25.htm (574 words)

	Gardening/Plant Diseases - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
		The two classes of insecticides are here described,--the poisons (arsenites and white hellebore) for chewing insects, as the beetles and all kinds of worms; the contact insecticides, as kerosene, oils, soap, tobacco, lime-sulfur, for plant-lice, scale, and insects in such position that the material cannot be fed to them (as maggots in the underground parts).
		This is a white, yellowish powder made from the roots of the white hellebore plant.
		The white maggots that feed on the roots hatch from eggs laid near the plant at the surface of the ground by a small fly somewhat resembling the common house fly.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Gardening:Plant_Diseases (10295 words)

	HELLEBORE - Online Information article about HELLEBORE
		century) regarded the plant as the fl hellebore of the Greeks.
		Phocis was the most famed for its hellebore, which, being there used combined with " sesamoides," was, according to Pliny, taken with more safety than elsewhere.
		Conference has recommended the preparation which it terms the linctura veratri viridis, as the best form in which to administer this drug.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /HEG_HIG/HELLEBORE.html (1956 words)

	Veratum album - Homeopathic Remedy, Homeopathy Medicine
		Hellebore is one of the four classic poisons (the other three being deadly nightshade, hemlock, and aconite).
		His son Frederick acted as the respondent, The thesis was a marvel of research and erudition, concerning the white Hellebore of the ancients, which will be proved to be identical with the Veratrum album of the present.
		"A purgation of Hellebore is good for mad and furious men, for melancholy, dull and heavy persons, and briefly for all those that are troubled with fl choler, and molested with melancholy." Hellebore is found in writings through the ages, from the ancient Greeks through the Middle Ages, when it was used by herbalists.
	www.hpathy.com /materiamedica/seebauer-veratum-album.asp (3552 words)

	University Of Alaska, Stories
		White Hellebore Veratrum album L. is a perennial, herbaceous, rhizomatous plant that is highly toxic.
		False Hellebore Veratrum eschsholtzii A.Gray is a sister species of White Hellebore that is also highly toxic and produces steroidal alkaloids.
		The White Hellebore has white spike flowers with the leaves wrapping around the stalk of the flower.
	www.alaska.edu /opa/eInfo/index.xml?StoryID=18 (388 words)

	Ancient Medicine/Medicina Antiqua::Essays:Hellebore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The fl hellebore, once known as the melampode (in Greek, melanorrhizon), is a low- lying plant with dark shiny leaves and pure white flowers (illustration).
		Hippocrates in Diseases of Women describes a drink made of fl hellebore, myrrh, spikenard, pine resin and saltpeter (2) and compares the symptoms of hysterical suffocation to those caused by a dose of helllebore (Diseases of Women 2.126, 123), while Macer's herbal mentions it in a list of abortifacient and emmenagogues.
		Hellebore is also one of the four classic poisons but also was said to have substantial curative effects especially for mental disorders.
	www.medicinaantiqua.org.uk /Medant/hellebore.htm (464 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Helleborus and the Hellebore Genus
		Once used by the ancient Greeks for poisoning the wells of their enemies, this small group of fully to half-hardy perennials is invaluable for bringing the garden alive during the dark winter months, providing both architectural boldness and unusual floral displays.
		Hellebores are generally unfussy regarding soil type but perform best in a well-drained, humus-rich soil, avoiding direct sunlight and excessive competition from tree roots for moisture.
		Hellebores provide year-round structure and interest, and invaluable activity during the winter months.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A649208 (553 words)

	Black Hellebore Root from Alchemy Works - Herbs for Witchcraft and Ritual Magick
		This is the hellebore traditionally used in magick, as opposed to what is normally sold as hellebore, which is Veratrum viride (green or false hellebore) or Veratrum album (white hellebore).
		Black hellebore is a perennial woodland plant of Middle and Southern Europe in the buttercup family, which is one of the most poisonous of plant families.
		Cattle were once blessed with fl hellebore to protect them against malign influences and evil spells, and apparently a ritual was involved in digging it up; it is too bad that the knowledge of it has been lost.
	www.alchemy-works.com /herb_hellebore_black.html (264 words)

	GREEN FALSE HELLEBORE - NativeTech: Indigenous Plants & Native Uses in the Northeast
		The root of the plant was used as an endurance drug, and status was afforded to men who came through the experience.
		Dry root of the White Hellebore was pounded and snuffed.
		White Hellebore (Veratrum speciosum) is called Indian itchweed.
	www.nativetech.org /plantgath/hellebor.htm (96 words)

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		From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: {White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of wheels, and for other purposes.
		{White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {A. concolor}.
		{White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee, produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind {White tombac}.
	www.beetfoundation.com /words/k/kite.html (1245 words)

	Chapter Whistle <i>to</i> White of W by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		a crop of grain which loses its green color, or becomes white, in ripening, as wheat, rye, barley, and oats, as distinguished from a green crop, or a root crop.
		Light having the different colors in the same proportion as in the light coming directly from the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing through a prism.
		the smew; — so called from the white crest and the band of fl feathers on the back of its head, which give the appearance of a hood.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1214/24524/4.html (519 words)

	VERATRUM ALBUM (Veratum alb) - Materia Medica Pura - Dr. Samuel Hahnemann
		This much is, however, certain, that the ancients could not have obtained so much reputation for their hellebore treatment at Anticyra and other places in Greece, unless they had effected much with it, and unless they had restored many sick persons to health by means of this medicinal plant.
		Paroxysms of pains similar to those the white hellebore root can itself produce, and which always brought the patient for a short time into a sort of delirium and mania, often yielded to the smallest dose of the above solution.
		Sudden, grave accidents from taking white hellebore root are most surely removed by a few cups of strong coffee.
	www.hpathy.com /materiamedica/hahnemann_mmpura/veratrumalbum.asp (7477 words)

	Hellebore
		The Black Hellebore - once known as Melampode - is a perennial, low-growing plant, with dark, shining, smooth leaves and flower-stalks rising directly from the root, its pure white blossoms appearing in the depth of winter and thereby earning for it the favourite name of Christmas Rose.
		History---According to Pliny, Black Hellebore was used as a purgative in mania byMelampus, a soothsayer and physician, 1,400 years before Christ, hence the name Melampodium applied to Hellebores.
		If the soil is well trenched and manured, Hellebore will not require replanting for at least seven years, if grown for flowering, but a top dressing of well-decayed manure and a little liquid manure might be given during the growing season, when plants are making their foliage.
	www.angelfire.com /realm2/amethystbt/dangeroushellebore.html (834 words)

	BoDD (Botanical Dermatology Database) - MELANTHIACEAE
		Its rhizome is the source of White Hellebore Powder, which has in the past been used as an insecticide (see, for example, Piper 1922).
		At present it is rarely used, except in the form of decoction or ointment, as an external application to kill lice, and cure the itch, pruritis, and some other cutaneous affections; but, used thus, it is not always free from danger." (Felter and Lloyd 1898).
		This species is the source of cyclopamine, a teratogenic alkaloid that causes cyclopian and other deformities in foetuses of animals that have grazed on the plant during gestation (Keeler 1975, Gaffield and Keeler 1994).
	bodd.cf.ac.uk /BotDermFolder/BotDermM/MELAN.html (1511 words)

	Medicina Antiqua: Hellebore
		The fl hellebore, once known as the melampode (in Greek, melanorrhizon), is a low-lying plant with dark shiny leaves and pure white flowers (illustration).
		Dioscorides mentioned it as a component of abortion wine along with other botanicals but the exact make-up was not given (1).
		Hippocrates in Diseases of Women describes a drink made of fl hellebore, myrrh, spikenard, pine resin and saltpeter (2) and compares the symptoms of hysterical suffocation to those caused by a dose of hellebore (Diseases of Women 2.126, 123), while Macer's herbal mentions it in a list of abortifacient and emmenagogues.
	www.medicinaantiqua.org.uk /sa_hellebore.html (433 words)

	Sunshine Farm and Gardens: Events: Destination Helleborus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Hellebores by Brian Matthews was published by the Alpine Garden Society in the UK in 1989 and is the most detailed and scientific treatise on the genus Helleborus.
		Hellebores by Marlene Ahlburg, published by Batsford in 1993 is an interesting look at Hellebores by a German author.
		I’m not sure who is retailing Hellebores in the NYC area.
	www.sunfarm.com /events/destinationhelleborus.phtml (295 words)

	Plants Poisonous to Llamas
		The outstanding characteristic of both White Baneberry and Red Baneberry is a stalk of berries at the top.
		Erect, trumpet-shaped white or pale purple flowers emerge at the forks of the stems.
		The large terminal clusters of flowers are borne on sticky, hairy stems and range in colour from rose to white.
	www.smartt.com /~brianp/plantpage.html (5898 words)

	Laurel Fork Wilderness Areas and Vicinity
		White Hellebore (Veratrum veride), Canada Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), Red Spruce (Picea rubens) and a little Great Rhododendron (Rhododendron maximum)..At the base of many of the Spruce, unidentified liverworts were common, as was New York Fern (Thelypteris noveboracensis) quite generally.
		Then, at a small seep, and in association with White Hellebore, there appeared the first of the rare Glade Spurge (Euphorbia purpurea) in the form of a dozen meter - high clumps, the leaves of which were covered with a white fungal bloom.
		On the morning of 9 - 17 - 00 we were greeted by a heavy, white covering of frost, and there was a visible increase in color of the leaves.
	www.asecular.com /forests/laurelsouth.htm (6517 words)

	The DICT Development Group: Online Dictionary Query- White
		White+ibis+(Zool.),+an+American+ibis+({Guara+alba">White ibis (Zool.), an American ibis ({Guara alba) having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the wings, which are fl.
		White, GA -- U.S. city in Georgia Population (2000): 693 Housing Units (2000): 274 Land area (2000): 0.906110 sq.
		White, SD -- U.S. city in South Dakota Population (2000): 530 Housing Units (2000): 212 Land area (2000): 0.714798 sq.
	dict.tu-graz.ac.at /cgi-bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=White (2647 words)

	"POISONOUS PLANTS SLIDES - WESTERN FALSE HELLABORE" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Western false hellebore is a native perennial herb 1-8 feet tall, with erect, unbranched, very leafy stems; the leaves are broad, large, alternate and three-ranked, sheathing the stem, somewhat folded, strongly parallel veined.
		Flowers are in large panicles at top, white to greenish with the three sepals and three petals alike.
		Veratrum belong to the Liliaceae family and are broad-leaved perennials that grow from thick, fibrous rootstocks.
	cal.vet.upenn.edu /poison/plants/ppweste.htm (473 words)

	Chapter Venturer <i>to</i> Verdigris of V by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		Pertaining to, or derived from, plants of the genus Veratrum.
		an acid occurring, together with veratrine, in the root of white hellebore (Veratrum album), and in sabadilla seed; — extracted as a white crystalline substance which is related to protocatechuic acid.
		A poisonous alkaloid obtained from the root hellebore (Veratrum) and from sabadilla seeds as a white crystalline powder, having an acrid, burning taste.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1213/24451/3.html (340 words)

	botanical.com - A Modern Herbal \| Hellebore, White - Herb Profile and Information
		There is fatty matter, composed of olein, stearin and a volatile acid, supergallate of Veratia, yellow colouring matter, starch ligneous matter, and gum; the ashes contain much phosphate and carbonate of lime, carbonate of potassa and some traces of silica, and sulphate of lime.
		It was formerly used in cerebral affections, such as mania, epilepsy, etc., and for gout, as a substitute for colchicum or the Eau Mediciale of Husson, when 3 parts of the wine of White Hellebore added to 1 part of laudanum was given in doses of from 1/2 fluid drachm to 2 fluid drachms.
		It is occasionally used in the form of an ointment or decoction in obstinate skin diseases such as scabies, or to kill lice, but even this use is not free from danger.
	www.botanical.com /botanical/mgmh/h/helwhi17.html (434 words)

	AllaKhazam's Magical Realm - Your Everquest Community
		You have to make sure that you have the correct one you need there are 2 different kinds the Hellebore and the Hellbore..The Hellebore is found in Paw and is dropable.Not sure about the other though sry..
		The quest description for the Tunare Warden says the White hellebore is no drop.
		This is not correct unless there is another type of white hellebore.
	everquest.allakhazam.com /db/item.html?item=6065 (403 words)

	Plant of the Week
		Many years ago when I had my florist shop in Hamilton, well-known florist Denzil Philip sent me a plant of a new Hellebore, Hellebore white magic and said "you can't live without this".
		As soon as it flowered his comments were proven correct and we ordered a box of them and we have taken some with us ever since.
		I am sure this will be a real eye-opener, new cut flower for florists as well as all the uses of its parents H. sternii and white magic.
	www.gardens.co.nz /PlantoftheWeek.cfm?NLID=121 (332 words)

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