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HEMP 



HELIOTROPE is a variety of green jasper, marked with blood-red points ; 

 whence its vulgar name of blood-stone. See BLOOD-STONE. 



HEXiZiEBORE. Several species of Helleborus, a genus of plants belonging to the 

 natural order Ranunculacece, were formerly used as drastic purgatives. The Veratrum 

 album, a widely different plant, is known as ' White Hellebore.' 



HEI. VINE. A silicate of the protoxides of manganese, iron, and glucinum, with 

 sulphide of manganese. It is commonly found in tetrahedral crystals, whence its 

 name Tetrahedral Garnet. The best examples come from Saxony. 



HEMATIN. See HJEMATIK. 



HEMATITE. See HEMATITE. 



H EM ATO GLOBULIN. See HJBMATOGLOBULIN. 



HEXtXATOSIDT. See HJEMATOSIN. 



HEMATOXYLIIT. See H^EMATOXTLIN. 



HEIVXIMORPHITE. A name for silicate of zinc, or smithsonite. See CALA- 

 MINE, ELECTRIC. 



HEMIiOCK. The Conium maculatum, a highly poisonous umbelliferous plant 

 used in medicine. Its properties are mainly due to the presence of an oily liquid 

 called conia. 



HEMLOCK. SPRUCE. The Abies Canadcnsis, the wood of which has been used 

 for railway sleepers, and is employed for baths. 



HEMP. (Chanvre, Fr. ; Hanf, Ger.) A plant (Cannabis saliva), a native of 

 India, but has been long introduced into Europe, and cultivated extensively in Italy, 

 and in Russia and Poland ; a small quantity has been cultivated in Suffolk, in Lin- 

 colnshire, and in Ireland. 



Hemp is assorted into clean hemp, out-shot hemp, half-clean hemp, and hemp codilla. 

 According to M'Culloch, a bundle of clean hemp from Russia weighs from 66 to 66 

 poods ; of out-shot, from 48 to 65 poods ; of half-clean, 40 to 45 poods the pood being 

 equal to 36 Ibs. avoirdupois. 



Hemp imported in 1871 and 1872. 



