hellebore

• In the New Forest the green hellebore is early and noticeable from its peculiar green blossoms, but I have not seen it in Worcestershire. —  Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
• The said physician purged him canonically with Anticyran hellebore, by which medicine he cleansed all the alteration and perverse habitude of his brain. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I
• This hellebore is sifted on the plant full strength, or it may be diluted by mixing one part of hellebore with one or two parts of flour, plaster, or lime. —  The First Book of Farming
• All three say that hellebore is the best thing for sucking insects. —  Mince Pie
• They bought five cents' worth of white hellebore, which is a powder, and sprinkled it on the ground in a circle about the stems of the young plants. —  The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.

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