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HERMAPHRODITUS Flos [ab E^,«>i,-. Mer- 

 cury, & A(Pe,oliiTv), Venus'] that which contains both 

 Jntbera and Stigma : of this kind are all Lin- 

 nsus's 24 clafTes, except the 2ift, 22d, & 24th. 

 A plant is called Hermaphrodita, when on the 

 fame I'oot it produces hermaphrodite flowers 

 only. There are alfo Flores her?naphrodlti, male 

 hermaphrodites, and hermapbrodita^ female her- 

 maphrodites : the fn-il is when the PiJIilhwi, 

 the fccond, when the Stami?ia are abortive ; but 

 thefe inftances are rare, 



HESPERIDtE [//^ypir/i^j, whofe orchards 

 produced golden fruit]. An order of plants 

 in the Fragmenta methodl natiiralis of Linn sens, 

 containing thefe genera, viz. Citrus , Styrax, Gar- 



HEXAGONUS Caulis. See Trigonus. 



HEXANDRIA [e|, fex, fix, & A.,g, fir, 

 a man] The fixth clafs in the Linnaean fyftem ; 

 it confifts of thofe plants which produce her- 

 maphrodite flowers with fix Stami?ia, of equal 

 length. The orders are five, vizi. Monogy- 

 NIA, of which there are 51 genera, viz. Brome- 

 lia, Tillandjia, Burniannia, Tradefcantia, Pontsde- 

 ria, Hamar.thus, G a/an thus, Leuccjum, Narcijjus^ 

 Pancratium^ Crinum, Amaryllis, Bulbocodiurn, A- 

 M phyllcinihes, 



