HEL 
3. H. Pufi aye or ae ae helicite, a very {mall fhell, tab. 52, 
- fig. 3.: found rfield, in the cavities ina fuppofed 
cap tie. or nut of fome kind, inched? in the centre of an 
a esd iron{tone ball. 
sLCOID Parasotra, or the parabolic fpiral, a curve 
arifing upon a fuppofition of the axis of the common pol- 
lonian parabola’s being bent round into the periphery of a 
circle. 
e helicoid parabola, then, is a line paffing through the 
extremitics of ordinates, which converge ecvise. the 
centre o Ss faid diel 
Ss . 
a 
ad 
| al 
Saat for the paces of its air, the sNiendladibe of its waters, 
its fertile valleys, the coolnefs of its thades, or the beauty 
of the venerable trees which covered its fum The nine 
mufes had their ftatues in the wood of THe mountain ; 
and here were alfo ftatues of Apollo and Mercury, of Bac 
chus by Lyfippus, of Orpheus of Thrace, and likewife of 
poets and celebrated muficians. .'The fountain arnt: 
that of Narciffus, and a {mall river named Perme: us, 
at the foot of this mountain, and here was alfo ewe the 
he ulchre of Sig can It is fituated in Livadia, and now 
‘abies ya.—Alfo, a river of Greece, in Mace- 
dons * ran near F Diss 2 an 
pe agg funk unde 
— Pear estan to ‘aufanias, who adds, ees 
it oy Pe. to the Pielke, a riv er on the W, fide of 
on gen 
ocia- 
ee with which vhs prefent 
s works. Linn. Mant. 7a 
p. Pl, v. 1. 1187, Mart. Mill. Die 
gynia, or perhaps 
dria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Mufe, Voll Jufl. Bet asin pre it 
to his Scitaminea, to which it is indeed nearly kin, but nearer 
to. ah oronarig. 
Ch. Cal. Fanuc both general and partial, alter- 
HEL 
Corolla in four deep fegments, one of them internal. Barres 
filament like a fcale. some te inferior, of three cells and 
three valves, ee folita 
Obf.. Wha 
tic materia Se : 
ribea. Lamarck. Did. v. 1. 426. Willd. n. 1, 
( Bihai oo. foliis, florum vafculis coccineis 5 Pham. 
se : cs Leaves rounded at both ends. Sp athas 
a 
- fheathing (ae their bafes enfolding one another fo as 
to refemble a out five feet tall, and as thick asa iS 
thigh, after which the ftalks fpread in two rows, and a 
-rounde below, channelled abov The leaf itfelf i is fix or 
feven feet in ae aa and a foot and hal wide, linear, beeen 
ea at each 
are imbricated i in two rows, aped, acute, compre 
red, containing abundance of cea, greenith flowers. 
Cupfue flethy, blueith. 
amarck spufiders two other kinds mentioned aby — 
one with blackifh, the other with ted 
varieties of this, but his Sarkis can neither be confirmed nor 
refuted till the ge. are rec 
2 
- H. Bihai. ses oe Am. ea + 8. 253. 
Willd n. 2. Siraree: Obf. 96. t. 5. f. 2. H. luteo-fufca; 
acq. Hort oenbr. v. 1.25. Mufa at ; Linn. Sp 
tainous ae aa The Lan nzean Rooke ‘Ecce Js 
intended in the differtatian called Plante geen fo we 
with ag Pt 5 oe that we cannot doubt their iden- 
tity. This ff has the fize and habit of te Ta but 
iffers in having the leaves not rounded at the bafe or point 5 
the common flower-flalk fomewhat 
nate, diftined. Perianth _ Cor. of one »fuperior;  certaint to belon a: it, though it bly may 
tube very. fhort, ayledbeal limb in four oblong, ereét, be a narrow yal oe ag ge a 
acute, channelled, nearly equal, mri three of which ilis. Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. v. 1. 23- t- 
» one internal. Stam. Fil ts fix, inferted 49. Willd. n, 3 (Muth humilis; ; Aubl. Guian. v. 2- 931- } 
into the tube 0 of the corolla ; five of as long as ——Leaves at each Sp aint. 
the limb, theead- aped, fertile ; an vertical, » Flower-ftal 
long and furrowed ; in the place of the fixth filament is a three-cleft'; onter ‘ones re urved —Nati e 
fhort, . channelled, curved, often notched, leaf or feale. Curaffow. It flowered with J 
/ifl. Germen inferior, roundith, a 3 flyle curved, at Schoenbrun, and, from hi 
about equal to the ftamens. 3 fligma obtufe, notched, Peric. _ tion, appears to differ from chi lt in io much 
Caplule oblong, abrupt, triangula ( i three lant, with lefs diftant athas,* and Bae 
valves. Seeds olitary, o oblong, ay Fhe 2 revolute or “aad faire anor hee lla if com 
IC differ from ) 
h. = thas both general and partial, Cilia: 
what Swartz ripeciets of the former. 
Ht 
