HIPPOOUMBOsV 



HIPPONdB. 



I, s lawn rxpaadsd ; 1, a section of the same, showing the ovary. 



//. Hnltarifa, Minorca Hone-Shoe Vetch, is a shrubby erect plant, 

 with the peduncle* longer than the leaves, bearing an umbel of 

 Bowers at UM apex, UM legume* glabrous, a little arched. It U a 

 stive of the Island of Minorca. It is a pretty plant, worthy of 

 evMvBtion, but require* tbe greenhouse in winter. It grows well 

 a a soil composed of loam and peat; and cuttings strike readily 

 tmoW a haad-flasa, 



// -ISIM*, Common Hone-Shoe Vetch, has the pods umbellate, 



their jomte rough, curred, neither dilated nor bordered, glabrous ; 

 the psdmrlii longer than toe leaves. It is a native of Kurope, and 



I OB dry chalky bank* in Great Britain. It is also found in 



Then an seven or eight more species of Horse-Shoe Vetch. They 

 are all worth cultivation on account of their beauty. The perennial 



pharynx are 

 Tbe enseiea 



species are adapted for rockwork and banks, and may be propagated 

 by dividing tb* rooU The annual species should be grown from 

 seeds, which may be sown early in spring. 

 .ff"". DitU**tdm Plaml,. Babington, Manual of BritM 



HlPpOOLOflBOS, a geous of FUbe* belonging to the family 

 aUf. The two eyes are on tbe right side. The jaws an.) 

 are armed with sharp and strong teeth ; tbe body elongated. 

 eiea are known by their being stouter and longer than thoie 

 of UM gem* Pt*a~ and other PUtmtttlitla. 



II. <mlftii, the M. .l.l.ui. Halibut, or Kitten, is the only Uriti.h 

 It is a very frequent flub in tbe northern fUheries, and is 

 o*> UM coast* of Norway, Iceland, and Greenland. They an 

 is, Is**, quantit*. by tbe inhabitent* of the Orkneys. In 

 UM KottlMm sea* they an sometime. osngbt weighing 600 Ibs. They 

 ar> foosxl around UM ooaeU of Ireland, and are often seen in the 

 market*. Th* form of the body U elongated, the surface 

 eovered with small oval-shaped soft soales; the lateral line 

 verUMpectofBlft.; th. colour composed of diflerent shade* 

 varying from light brown to dusky brown; the surface of the under 

 etdeperfeeOy saooUl and white. 

 iV.rt.il. MM /**.) 



HlfPO'LTTK, U- name of a gwu* of Cn***a belonging to 

 UM tribe of Paleooolaa*. ( PAUMOHIDA 

 ' 



flowers in spikes, and bract. 



U. MnfmmiUm. UM Matiakhnl Tree, U . plant which has as bad 



an American reputation as thaf of the Upas-Tree in the Indian Archi- 

 pelago. It is a tree of very considerable size, and of a handsome 

 aspect, belonging to the natural order uplu>rbiacea, snd among the 

 most poisonous of all known vegetable productions. Tbe leaves an 

 alternate, ovate-acute, serrated, and shining, with a roumlwh depressed 

 gland between tbe blade and the petiole. The flowers are small, uni- 

 sexual, and arranged on slfiidrr axillary ppike*, the lowermost only 

 being female, all the others male. The male flowers grow in clusters, 

 and have each a small calyx of two sepaU, containing a tetrsndrous 

 column of stamens. The females have a calyx of three sepals, a round 

 ovary crowned by six or seven nflexed stigmns, and containing as 

 many cells. When the fruit is ripe it U a fleaby yellowish-green round 

 body, very like an European crab-apple. The tree is common in the 

 West India Islands, although pains have been taken to extirpate it 

 In tome places it forms thick woods, as upon Sandy Island, near Tor- 

 tola, to the exclusion of all other vegetation, for not a blade of grans 

 will grow beneath its branches. The whole plant abounds in a milky 

 juice of the most venomous description : dropped on the skin it pro- 

 duces a sensation of severe burning, followed by a blister ; and tbe 

 fruit, when bitten, causes dangerous inflammation of the mouth. Tlii* 

 ia denied by some of the West Indian settlers, but is uuiluubU-dly 

 true, according to the elder J acquit., and to the more recent testimony 

 <if Sir Kouvrt Schomburgk, who suffered severely from having tried 

 the experiment of eating the fruit Jacquiu however asserts that to 

 sleep beneath the shade of the Manchiueel-Tree U not dangerous, as 

 is commonly reported. But Sir Robert Schomburgk says that if rain 

 psisiM through the branches and drops upon the skin of a person 

 below them, it produces severe inflammation, and that the dew vrhich 

 falls at night causes the same effects, as he saw in certain cases which 

 came beneath his own observation ; but be adds that it nets difletv ntly 

 upon diflerent persons, lie himself not suffering any inconvenience 

 from rubbing the juice on the skin. But while the dangerous quali- 

 ties of this tree are thus undoubted, it is very uncertain whether the 

 poisonous quality which, it is believed in the West Indies, the land- 

 crabs acquire from the Mauchineel-Tree U really owing to that cause. 

 Jacquin denies it, and Sir Robert Schomburgk could obtain no proof 

 that it is so ; all that is certain is, that land-crabs are frequently found 

 under the shade of mauchineel woods, and that those animals are 

 often poisonous. The wood of this tree is represented to be of fine 

 quality, handsome, and well suited for cabinet-makers' purposes. 



Mancliinrrl-Tiee (Hippuwanf U tnfn> 



I, s ripe fiuit ; 2, > traiurcne section or the ume ; 3, a male flower ; 4, a 

 female flower ; 5, an ovary. 



HIPPO'NOK, a genus of Dornihranchiate Atinrliila, considered l.y 

 Messrs. Audouin and Milne-Edwards to approach the genus AmjJiinomt. 

 llippo*i,e in deprived of a caruncle and has only a niugle packet of 

 lilWlu to each fool, and a single cirrhus. 



