HAS 
‘froma Cairo, are preferved in the Linnzan cabinet. Thefe 
.are gummed on a peculiar very delicate fubftance, by way of 
paper, with who'e hiltory and origin we are unacquainted, 
though i: is now fold in London, of various colours, in fmall_ 
quave pieces, for making ais flowers, for which its 
~ texture 1s admirably calcu 
A rude attack has been per by the cckebeten Buffon 
upon Haffelquiit’s defcription of the Cumelopardalis in par- 
earns and the Viverra Ichneumon. As nothing to the 
ed ae is faid: againft either of ss accounts, though the | 
Latin of Haflelquift is copied fo erroneoufly as to be made 
sitaiic nonfenfe, and then ctiticifed for its flyle ; and as 
_.the attack evidently originates in Buffon’s antipathy to the 
-whole Linnzan fchool, it fearcely merited the Be onour of fo 
ample a refutation as Dr. Sparmann has bettowed upon it, 
_in his voyage to the Cape o Hope, chapter 14th. 
''To have been a pupil of Tite. a fyitematic naturalilt, a 
man of religion, probity, and morality, might well excite the 
_ {pleen of the man who dared to allow that “ his own genius 
_.was equal to the majelty of nature ;’” but fuch qualities will 
ever embalm the memory of Haffelquift, who might be con- 
“tent to yield to the French philofopher without a figh of 
regret, all that the latter ever affumed, and- even all he de- 
‘ ‘ Haller’ 8 ace tos 
HASSELQUISTIA, in Botany, fo nam = Ladeps 
in jult commemoration of his pupil, Frederick Dalila 
Biel. 
tern 
HAS 
of its feeds is she flriking and peculiar, as to afford a ftrong 
— in favour of. thofe principles. The fpecies are 
tw 
. tiaca. Soa Sp. Pl. 3 Supph 1 Jac 
Hor Vice eis 1, 7... 87: Eee ee leafiets ae 
natifid, cut.—Gathered by Haffelquift i in Arabia. Linn. Am, 
Acad. . 270. Miller cultivated it at Chelfea in 1768 
or aay. as appears by the a edition of his Didtionary, 
but it is not now ets din the gardens, being an annual 
or biennial of a tender conftitution, and, though very curious 
o a botanift, not likely to attraét mere amateurs, ‘The eds 
es ever are rather.a ttriking obje€&t. The lem is a foot or 
two high, ere€t, branched, leafy, furrowed, more or lefs 
rough with deflexed hairs. Leaves light green, of three or 
four pair of wedgerthapeds aoe Be eed oe fmooth leslieg, 
with an odd one. Umbels terminal, » broad, flattifh, © 
’ Flowers wridt Buxbaum’s Pajffinaca- oneal foliis eleganter 
incifis, Cent. 3. 16. t. 27, is defcribed with yellow equal 
petals, and heart-fhaped {ftriated feeds, fo that it cannot be- 
ne a the Hafelquifia, -though cited soubiae by 
re 
n. ‘cordata. Jacq. Hort. Vind. v. 2. gt. t. 193. Linn. 
179.—Leaves heart-fhaped, crenate; imple or 
nate.—The native country of this fpecies is unknown, 
Jacquin received its feeds from the Swifs botanift, Mr. Dick, 
who had them from Spielmann, and he fays- they agreed 
M.D. itsdifcoverer. Sethe pheceding aviicte Linn. Gen.135. exaétly with thofe of the former, except in being one-third 
‘ Schreb. 180. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 1. 1379. Mart. Mill. Diet. fimaller. Certner however reprefents them as {carcely 
v, 2. Alt. - Kew. v. 1. 332. Sm. Prod. Fl. Grec cren # is annual 
-v. 1.180. Juff. Hie -Gertn.+t. 21. (Tordylium; Lamarck. 
Tiludr. EiG3-5 2 )—Clafs and Order, Pentandria Digynia. 
Nat. Sa Umbellifere 
General = of about ten Sle 
i alls 
of which the five outermoit are 
longer than the {maller petals ; anthers roundifh. Pif. Ger- 
inferior, turbinate, compreffed ; ftyles two, thread- 
eet the tet of the ftamens, ebegt, prefent in almoft all 
the flowers ; fligmas tufe. Peric. none. Fruit of br cir- 
cn oe nearly ati, fmooth, Pepe d alm 
a Ch. General and partial involucrum of feveral leaves, 
” Flowers: radiant ; thofe of the difk male; central oo 
Fruit of the adios orbicular, flat, crenate ; of the difk ur. 
ceolate, eee fingle-feeded. 
Obf. Adanfon and Lamarck confider this genus as a 
ers and fruit ; ir 
fining ra of the But if the’ 
: Mpg Di be hak for which, in this ie ee a! 
by no eee contend, the oy ee of Has cee ia 
asa a8 an ¥ its tribe 5 and indeed the 
onthe Vecht; 10 miles E. of Campen. 
y ground — to thirty paces: thus 
‘to M. Du- . 4 
meafured. 
eart-fhaped crenate /aves, w hich ftand on long 
fheathing ttalks, fometimes bearing a pair of rather narrower 
leaflets alfo. The flowers are white, in.more compact umbels, 
the leaves of their general involucrum more ‘numerous and 
fos than in the former 
own of France, in ee 
in 6 communes. N., lat. ¢o° ss 5 44 
a {mall but handfome town of Piet in Ove ne fe 
dat 52 3 
long. 6° 1 ‘ 
HASSELWIC K, a town of Norway, in the diocefe of 
Drontheim ; 18 miles N.N.W. of Drontheim. 
SI, a town of European Turkey, in the province 
of Matsdania ; 56 miles N.N.W. of Akrida. of 
HASSLACH, a town of ina in the bifhopric 
Race ; 24 miles N.N.E. of Bambe 
HASSOCK, denotes a bafg, or cui made of ruthes, 
to kneel or reft the feet on in churche 
HASTA, or Hasta Pura, among 2 Neies fignifies @ 
kind of fpear or javelin, not fhod, or h d with iron; oF 
rather an ancient {ceptre, fomewhat ogee than ordinary, 
occafionally given to all the gods. 
The hates fuppofed a nibol of the goodnels the 
gods, and of the conduét of. providence, ‘ which is equally 
mild ‘and forcible. ee 
ASTA, in fouie'é countries, is a meafure, or | 
/ 
Cange, from the hafta,” or rod, oe i a it Wa 
ASTATL, or Hasrarn, 
—_— ible saat who we fe hate 
apo ee, ‘ 
