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flowers few, on longish stalks; tube inflated; leaves three toge- 

 ther, lanceolate-acute, nearly smooth ; corolla of a fine golden 

 yellow, with a spreading border. Native of the West Indies. 



3. Hamellia Axillaris. Clusters from the forks of the 

 stem; flowers turned to one side, numerous, small, pale 

 yellow ; leaves opposite, smooth, dark green. Native of 

 Jamaica and Hispaniola. 



4. Hamellia Clirysantlia. Clusters terminal ; partial 

 flower-stalks long and slender ; corolla shining, yellowish- 

 orange ; leaves opposite, obovato-lanceolate, pointed, very 

 smooth. Found on the West side of Jamaica. 



Hardbeam Tree. See Caspmns. 



Hard-yrass. See Dactylis Glomerata. 



Hares-Ear. See Bupleurum. 



Hares-Foot Fern. See Trickomanes. 



Harems-Tail Rusk. See Eriophorum Vaginatum. 



Hartogia; a genus of the class Tetrandria, order Mono- 

 gynia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth five- 

 cleft, smooth, permanent; clefts acute, very short. Corolla: 

 petals four, ovate, obtuse, spreading. Stamina: filamenta 

 four, very short, inserted into the base of the germen ; 

 antherae ovate, furrowed. Pistil : germen superior, ovate, 

 smooth; style simple, subulate; stigma acute. Pericarp: 

 drupe juiceless, ovate, smooth, or a little roughish, scarcely 

 as big as a hazel nut. Seed: nut with two seeds, somewhat 

 fleshy. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Calix: five-cleft. Pe- 

 tals: four, spreading. Drupe: ovate, enclosing two seeds. 

 The only species is, 



1. Hartogia Capensis. A shrub six feet high, with oblong, 

 serrate, blunt, smooth leaves ; flowers small, in short, axil- 

 lary, drooping clusters. Found in the woods near the Cape. 



Hart-Root. See Athamanta Cervaria. 



Harts-Tongue. See Asplenium Scolopendrium. 



Hasselquistia ; a genus of the class Pentandria, order Di- 

 gynia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: umbel spreading; 

 umbellules ten, five of which are in the circumference ; the 

 rudiment of the central umbellule is a mortified vitiated body, 

 pedicelled, somewhat three-sided, fleshy, depressed, dark- 

 coloured, hoary above, with white hair: involucre very small, 

 five-leaved, subulate, reflex ; involiinels halved ; those of the 

 outer ones three-leaved, subulate, nodding, shorter than the 

 utnbellule : umbel, when fruit-bearing, converging. Corolla: 

 flowers radiate, even of the inner umbellules : floscules of 

 the ray hermaphrodite; petals unequal, bowed in and bifid; 

 the outmost petal two clefts, and the next single one large, 

 so that in each corollule there are four clefts large, and six 

 small : floscules of the inner disk male ; petals nearly equal, 

 bowed in and bifid, all the clefts small. Stamina : filamenta 

 five to all the floscules, longer than the smaller petals ; an- 

 theroe roundish. Pistil: germen inferior; styles filiform, 

 permanent; stigmas obtuse. Pericarp: none. Seeds: out- 

 most double, oval, smooth,- the edge, thicker, crenulate; 

 inner solitary, hemispherical, drooping, pitcher-shaped, with 

 the side hollow ; these are also furnished with two styles ; in 

 the inner disk none. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Corolla: 

 radiated in the disk, male. Seeds: in the circumference 

 double, with a notched edge ; in the disk solitary, pitcher- 

 shaped, hemispherical. The species are, 



1. Hasselquistia JEgyptiaca ; Egyptian Hasselquistia. 

 Leaves pinnate; leaflets pinnutifid; root fusiform, smaller than 

 the finger, white, annual ; stem a foot and half high, upright, 

 round, white, with rough hairs, finally muricate, scabrous; 

 umbels of flowers at the top of the stem, and at the ends of 

 all the branches ; peduncle five-cornered, muricate ; corolla 

 white ; antherse greenish ; stamina and styles white. Biennial. 

 Native of Egypt, where it flowers in July. This and the 



next being natives of warm countries, are with difficulty pre- 

 served in England. Sow the seeds in pots about the middle 

 of August, placing them where they may have only the morn- 

 ing sun; in October remove them into a common frame; 

 and in the spring following place them in the full ground. 

 They will flower in June. 



2. Hasselquistia Cordata; Heart-leaved Hasselquistia. 

 Leaves heart-shaped ; stem upright, flexuose, a little streaked, 

 hairy at bottom ; umbel copious, flat, white, without the 

 central body ; marginal petals of the umbellules two, larger, 

 flat, obovate ; the rest nearly equal, small, ovate, entire ; 

 flowers white. Annual. Native place unknown. For its 

 propagation, see the preceding species. 



Hatchet-Vetch. See Coronilla. 



Haver. See Arena Fatua. 



Hawkweed. See Hieracium. 



Hawthorn. See Crateegus. 



Hazel-nut Tree. See Corylus. 



Heart's Ease. See Viola. 



Heath. See Erica. 



Heath, Berried. See Empetrum. 



Heath, Sea. See Frankenia. 



Hebenstreitia ; a genus of the class Didynamia, order 

 Angiospermia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth 

 one-leafed, tubular, membranaceous, emarginate, gaping lon- 

 gitudinally underneath. Corolla : monopetalous, one-lipped ; 

 tube cylindric, longer than the calix, gaping on the lower 

 side half way ; border ascending, Saltish, quadrifid, the clefts 

 nearly equal. Stamina: filamenta four, of which the upper 

 pair is inserted into the edge of the corolla under the throat, 

 and stands out, the lower anterior pair is bent back to the 

 sides; antheree crescent-shaped, compressed, truncate out- 

 wards. Pistil: germen very small ; style filiform, flexuose, 

 bent back through the fissure of the corolla ; stigma simple. 

 Pericarp: capsule oblong, one-celled, two-valved. Seeds: 

 two, oblong, convex on one side, three-furrowed, flat on the 

 other. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Calix : emarginate ; cleft 

 underneath. Corolla: one-lipped; lip ascending, four-cleft. 

 Stamina: inserted into the edge of the border of the corolla. 

 Capsule: containing two seeds. The species are, 



1. Hebenstreitia Dentata; Tooth-leaved Hebenstreitia. 

 Leaves linear, toothed ; spikes smooth ; stalks upright, a foot 

 high, with simple ascending branches next the root, and 

 under the spike; corolla white, with a red throat, singular 

 in having the stamina placed on the very edge of the fissure ; 

 seeds subelliptic, acuminate at the tip, slightly emarginate 

 at the base, pale straw-colour, fixed to the bottom of the 

 capsule, without any receptacle. The flowers are destitute 

 of scent in the morning ; at noon they are stinking and nau- 

 seous ; in the evening ambrosial, like the Oriental Hyacinth. 

 Biennial, flowering from February to November. Native of 

 the Cape of Good Hope. 



2. Hebenstreitia Ciliata. Leaves linear, toothed ; calices 

 three-valved, ciliate. This plant bears a strong resemblance 

 to the preceding species. Native of the Cape. 



3. Hebenstreitia Integrifolia. Leaves linear, quite entire. 

 This appears to be a mere variety of the foregoing species. 

 Native of the Cape. 



4. Hebenstreitia Cordata ; Heart-leaved Hebenstreitia. 

 Leaves somewhat fleshy, cordate, sessile. This is an under- 

 shrub. Stem upright, whitish, smooth and even, sparingly 

 branched only lit top; spike terminating, sessile; corolla 

 white, with a flesh-coloured throat; antliene compressed, 

 yellow. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



5. Hebenstreitia Erinoides. Leaves oblong, serrate, hairy; 

 bractes entire, hispid. Native of the Cape. 



