HEB 
Fukecie naturalis foffilium caput de terris. Refp. Jo. Ge. 
_ Lutheru 
All the above tra&s were publifhed at Leipfic, and in 
qu uarto. Haller’s Bibl. Bot. Aikin’s General Biography. 
HEBENSTREITIA, in Botany, was fo named b 
. Linnzus in honour of profeffor John Erneft Hebenftrcit 
(fee laft article). Linn. Gen. 318. Schreb. 416. Willd. 
Sp. Pl. v. 3. 330. Mart. Mill. Dit. v. 2. Ait Hert. Kew. 
‘2. Ju. ro. Lamarck Did. v. 3. 77. Iluitr, 
t. 521. Gertn. t. 51. Clafs and order, Didyn namia Angiofper- 
wae. Saye Aggregate, Linn. (rather Perfonate.) Vi- 
ticibus affine, J 
Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth of oné leaf, tubular, membrana- 
+ koa oubly sos cloven underneath. 
Corolla of onie, pecan four-cleft lip. Capfule contain- 
eeds. St 
ing two tamens itanding in the lage of the limb 
“ot the co 
ll the ipecies of this curious genus are natives of the 
A 
Cape of Good H The t 
reitia ri 
ise illdenow dhiibratbe five others, H. ciliata, integri- 
fair ta, erinoides, fruticofa, and cordata. 
dentata. ‘\’oothed Hebenftreitia. Linn. Sp. Pl. 
878. Curt. Mag. t. 483.—** Leaves linear, acute, flat, flighily 
toothed, fometimes entire; fpikes of flowers {mooth 
- Not unfrequent in whew fes, and sapabhe. ‘of being pro- 
paced by sig though with fome difficulty ; flowering 
February to November. Stem ere&, about a foot 
wo beit known i ino 
a? 
. 
hi $ ple, afcending. t viel 
feattered, linear, fomewhat hifpid and dentate, f{preadin 
or pee ae furnifhed with little axillary tufts. e termi- 
andr ed tripe, ae the famens cma placed on the edge 
of its fi ds of a ellow.—Li 
oes the oriental Sa acin 
Go bes tomer He Licalateitin, Andr 
kes of flowers {mooth.’’"—Introduced* in 
1796 by Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy. It may be increafed by 
.- the Euphrates. 
s 
all the children of 
: Terah, © 
HEB 
the other fide of the Euphrates into Canaan ; Heber ( 
etege” in Awe Hebrew la oy 28 ae fice tha 
* naflage,’’ 
fs. 
he 
by he Canaanites and 
i; act Le 
959, deni hee: (Gen. x. 21.) to be 
a Hebraifm, denoting the inhabitants of the country beyond’ 
Hence the fenfe of the text is, that all this 
>. Stecording to this opinion, Hebrew fignifies much the 
fame as foreigner among us, or one that comes from beyond 
f fea. Such see? Abraham and his family among the Ca- 
naanites ; and his pofterity, learning and ufin ng the lan- 
- guage e the Bacal ftill eteined: the appellation = 
nally even when they becaine poffeffors 
fettled inhabitants Befides, Abraham was the rah in 
— a from Heber (Gen. xi. 10, &c.) ; 
o be more likely that Abraham fhould takea name 
that was to defcend to his let after him from a circum- 
of whom it is ‘faid (Gen. %. 21. 3 thes he was * the father of » 
Heber,”’ i. ¢. e. of thofe on the other fide . 
of the Euphrates. Abrah Hebrew till 
‘ : 
tranflate « Heberi’”? Perates or Peraites, which 
a paffenger, or one who came — la the river. (Gen. 
xiv. I .. -) DML. mayiy L “ABeap 7p Tegan 
Aquila, <3 weeuiln 8S ton’s Priest. 
The rabbins, indeed, see d, that he was a man of fin 
on preferved by him and his family ; to add, 
that Abraham and his pofterity are called Herel becaule 
they fpoke, the fame language, and ae: ort pra ractifed 
deftitute of atisfactory evidence. 
eber ufed the Hebrew language ; 3 and as to his ae 
the true religion in his family, this by no means agrees W! 
Jofhua’s faying, that the ative Ritts of the Ifraclites, who, in 
old time, dwelt “ on the other fide of the flood,” evel 
« the father of Abraham, ferved other gods.” - 
Jofh. xx 
HEBE amiable 
n London in the yea 1710. 
cuttings, an *fe are taken off in May, they will be- Having received his early price in his native citys he 
come flowering ‘plants in September. — fmooth and was entered o ’s college, pean “7 tie i 
eaves linear, mewhat whorled. and, after a ref dence of fix years, he lected fellow 0! 
Spike. formed of beautiful golden-cloured flowers, varie- 
flow extreme 
that fo ociety. From this time he devoted himfelf to the ftudy 
ed with — orange —T'he rs become e ly of medicine, partly at Cambridge, and partly in the ett etled 
ED in_an ing. polis. After he had taken the de of M.D., he is ten 
BER, a in Serine Bisgrophe, the father at C bridge, where he praétifed his profeffion eres? & 
of Pespeind the fon of S ah, wh was he grandf years, and gave 5 n the ja dica annus be 
Shem, one of Noah’s fen ee tote A. M. 1723, B.C. the itudents in the univerfity. he refided ern 
2281. From fome e fuppofed that Abraham and believe, he printed a little tract, entitled “ Av Fane 5 oer : 
his defeendants derived the appellation of Hebrews. But Effay thridatium and Theriaca :’? 1745 de rt 
others have fuggelted, with greater probability, ‘that Abra- publication is not meritioned in the “title-page. — This t of 
ham and his family were thus called, beca caufe they came > from SEA eae iredicainentts sa an expofure 
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