LES 
Inhabited » fea-fowl, and so by feals, oneoe 
The i 
‘and tu nterior of the if] was.one entire fo- 
reit, sid even fome ‘éf the precipices that over-hang the fea _ 
were covered with gumwood-trees. The other eee 
productions befides the trees and fhrubs, together with 
plenty of fine water, a mild climate, productive foil, = 
the immediate track 
poultry were landed for his fuftenance ; eo — 
fants, vines fowls, peacocks, and other wild fowl, were 
1] a and vegetables of various fin were alfo 
introduced ; a6" fi 3, oranges, lemons, and peach-trees were 
Every thing profpered under his attention and 
culture. The Portuguefe were anxious s keep fecret their 
difeovery of this ifland, and fucceeded in their withes and en- 
-deavours for this purpofe until the fo of June 1588, when it 
was defcried by we eS n his return from a cir- 
gts, e. e difco a convenient — 
ages 
ian, The nd perfon from =<: who vilited = 
. 
of i of ment. The: Picts u- 
guefe, out of the ifland by the Dutch, 
“who faceted the forme 3 in she the poffeffion of it, and retained 
it till ee year 1651, when, paras: a colony at the 
Cape of Good Hope, they abandoned St. Helena. - On 
this event the ei Tadia company fettled on it in the fame 
year 5 3 and ten 
‘ company, a € rt = = 
conttituting tlietn rae a pronektars of the ifland, with the 
rights and powers of fovereignty. In their potion it has 
ce continaed,’ and. mee been found of grea 
‘and utility as a place o Scere or roeiamnteats 
eotinetab with the India and trade. Brooke’s 
Hitt. of the Hand of St. Helena, 3808. 
+ < 
Ho ogs, goats, and - 
vate, an 
HEL 
Hex a an iflaud of America, 30 miles in circum 
ference, on the 
ult of Florida, built 
by the Spaniards, and burnt by fir Francis Drake j re 1585. 
£ —Alfo, a town ofthe ifland of Scio. —Alfo, a town of 
South’ sini the province of Quito qos miles W. 
of Guayaqu 
HELENE a town of Abyflinia ; 30 miles $.8.E. of 
Siré 
HELENIA, in renee Gertn. t. 169. Sie Hexz- 
NIUM. 
HELENT 
Tnula. 
Martyn infovinis us, in hono 
tans, 
aie ae a is undo cubed the ancient 
plant a becaufe the genus we are abou defcribe, 
in many refpeéts clofely refembles the plant of Dioteortes, 
Linneus adopted this name for it. e firft called it Hee. 
lenia in ie Hortus Ciifortianus, which termination Grtner 
; has retai But in-all the reft of Linnzus’s works the 
genus is . seo the more: claffical title of Helenium>— 
Linn. Gen. 429. —— 560. Willd. Sp. Pl..v. 3. 2120. | 
Mart. Mill. — v. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 3. 227. Jail. 
189. Lamarck. Did. v. 3.81. Illuftr. t. 688. Gertn. t. 169. 
—Clafs or order, Syngenefia Polygami amia-Superflua. Nat. 
Ord. Com ce Difccidee, Linn. —Corymbifere, Juli. 
ommon calyx sctepeee of one leaf, 4 , 
mietbund, radiated 3 florets 0 
= icc, tubular, fhorter 
Peric. — except the unc 
Seeds in the flocets: both of the difk and radius, folitary,. 
angular, crowned with a fmall, five-t 
calyx. Recept. naked, convex; the feales of the 
- feparating the florets ut the radius. 
Eff. Ch. R naked; that of the sane ae 
ee with five awns. Calyx 
ments. Florets of the cue three-c 
t. H. autumnale. Li Pluk. P Phyt. t. 372+ 
f. 4.—* Leaves ferrated, very {moo “g —wNative 0: 
places in North ear eres geehaans om Angel ‘to. Odto- 
er. ‘Phe whole plant 
perennial rifes to the heig 1 feet. 
oe ranching a igri feces the 
late, fmooth, 
-lanceolate, entire. very. jooth. 
clongated naked,—Native of North Ame 
tthan i the lait, with eaves twice 
fabs are greatly elongated, . Cornuti’ era 
alatus, - eink ese 63, rather bles this thee the 
former, but we dare not pofitively qu oH 
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