Crossword-Solution: HELLEBORINE 11 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Hunting by night under the hornéd moon: Yet half I envied you your wintry swoon, Till, on this morning mild, the sun, new-risen Steals from his misty prison; The frozen fallows glow, the black trees shaken In a clear flood of sunlight vibrating awaken: And lo, your ravaged bole, beyond belief Slenderly fledged anew with tender leaf As pale as those twin vanes that break at last In a tiny fan above the black beech-mast Where no blade springeth green But pallid bells of the shy helleborine.

The white helleborine (_Cephalanthera pallens_), the dwarf orchis (_Orchis ustulata_), and the musk orchis (_Herminium monorchis_) occur on the Chalk Downs.

The marsh orchis grows below; the fly orchis is in the neighbouring thickets; in the beech-woods are the bird's-nest orchis, the broad-leaved helleborine, with its rare purple variety (_epipactis purpurata_), and the large white helleborine or egg orchis.

The marsh helleborine was once plentiful, it seems, in a swampy situation near Merstham; but when, by dint of careful trespassing and circumnavigation of barbed wire, I reached a place which corresponded exactly with that indicated in the _Flora_, not a single flower was to be seen.

The district is rather rich in orchids; among others, I found the rare narrow-leaved helleborine (_cephalanthera ensifolia_) in the Arnside woods.