HEL 
of that artift’s fill. 
ficence ; and the whole edifice, with its valuable -co 
of works of art, are entitled to admiration an praife. 
an account of which the reader is referred to “the works of 
the late Edward Dayes,’” 8vo.,180 na at and well- 
wooded mee about three miles fecehs Helmfley, are the re- 
mains of Rye-Vale abbey, commonly called Rivaulk-abbey. 
The ruins are feattered over a confiderable extent 0} 
o 
“ 
disc nery. On ak! fide. of the vale the hills rife to a ae. 
derable height, and are finely adorned-with hanging -w 
Tu the work. already referred to is an eepig ion deription 
_ of the ruins and the contiguous fcen 
HELMSTADT, a town of Geramaly, in the county of 
_ Wertheim ; 9 miles: 8. E. of Wertheim 
HELMST TAT'T, a town of Geemiany, in the palatinate 
_ ofthe Rhine; 14 ails. S.E. of Heidelberg. 
HEL AS, a’ {mall ifland of babes in the Little 
Belt. Nv lat. 55°-O4 « E. long. 10 
HELODES, formed of «o-, pe iy in Naiural Hi ifory, 
aterm applied to: certain plants, - fignify their place of 
growth to be in fens, bogs, or.ma y places; thus. a kind 
of St. Peter's sce which is dittinguithed from the. others 
by being hairy, a g always in boggy places, is 
called by Ray ‘ha —bihiors: af yrum villofum hlades 
-HELopes, in Medicine. See ELopys. 
HELOISE, in Biography, w as born about the year 
101 or 4102, and.is thought to have been the natural 
daughter of a prieft, but was brought up by Fulbert, a 
canon of Paris, a was defirous of giving her an education 
fuitable to the uncommon talents = fhe exhibited while 
very young. Abelard, as we have feen, (fee the article 
ABELARD,) was appointed her tutor, who ,abufed the con- 
oe = a4 di a him: and then, ‘as 
Pir 3 fhe refuled, 
treaties on this head were of no avail; fhe 
him the degradation duels as a philofopher, y he Ni adld thes 
by the low cares of domettic life, me ie: ‘ineodhittency; of flowers, 
ircumftance noticed ae 
wedlock wih the clerical duties, a 
Bayle to thew, that, at this period “ofthe church, the cle 
poner prohibited from entering the marriage ftate. “He- 
loife declared fhe would efteem it a greater glory to be re- 
d the miltrefs of her lover than the wife of an empe 
S wae “aifduity, 
qi ty ‘the diffolution es; 
Abelard, then: an abbot in the 
ed by Absd her fo rmer lover: about. 
foes ears, aes ‘as’ ‘fhe advanced in age, is fi : 
ae the aufterity of manners which is hing to one 
. fhe. drew 
ef ri 
| Was laid by the fide of Abelard. Bayle. 
“Ne 180. Schreb. 2: ri Willd SP 
a  Di&. v, Ze os Hort. Kew. 
marek Illuftr, t. 268. Clafs and orc 
The faloon- difplays peculiar oa [0 
lection 
the beft means of re- - 
:. Biirteam firtt found it, and of Virginia. 
Tore, 
Heloife and her companions retired with 
ave pasate concerning t 
telinquifhed the world, as the conititutions which. 
W up- for the rule of her convent are in the extreme — oe 
re _ She died in May 11635 and” - hen dice gio £ 
a 
bee tifolia cand ‘dubia, alee 
H E L. 
Gen. Ch. Cal. none. Cor. inferior, of fix oblong equal 
petals, permanent. Stam. Filaments fix, awl-fhaped, alittle 
longer than the petals ; anthers incumbent. Pi/. Germen 
fuperior, roundifh, with three angles ; ftyles three, « — 
reflexed ; ftigmas ‘obtufe. Capfule rowndifh,: 
branous, of three cells. Seeds feweral, roundifh. 
Sorolla. of fix. equal. petals. : 
Canfule of three cells, with many feec 
Obi. Juffieu fuggefts that the fruit. may, perhia ps, m 
Calyx a none, 
‘iin 
properly be confidered as three capfiles united ; this is 
rendered probable by its affinity to Veratrum 
FH. bu ata. Linn Sp . 48 Curt. = t Te 
Andr, Refol t. 352. Redout. Libiees t. i ha 
olia ;» Michaux. Boreal. Amer. y..1. 212 Vern we 
ftrifta ; Trew. Ehret. PF, 
fitulofo fquamofo, {pica 
V. racemo cai: oo pateritibus, Aaaliciad lon-- 
ioribus ; Mill. Ie. 2.)—Leaves elliptic-lanceo- 
ate, fomewhat iy ribbed, Stalk radical, 
Clutter denfe, ovate. 
M 
Flowers many, in 
denfe, nearly ovate eae, dullith cries, with blue ake g. 
inodorous, ‘The plant, at a diftance, has the a 
Orchis. The fpecific name dul/ata, taken from a fynonym 
of Plukenet’s mi ¥ sh ig ought, we think, ta 
‘have been changed s, which Mr. Gawler, now 
Ker, in the Dolnical acai cites by miftake /anceolata, - 
is infinitely preferable. 
H. afphodeloides. Lim, Sp. Pl. 485.° Curt. Mag.- 
eae fetifoliom : “‘Michatix. Boreal. -Amer. 
Sci hae oor’ es linear-awl-thaped, rough-edged. Stalk 
afy. —Native “of Pennfylva ania, where the pve dig Jchn 
‘fibrous, peren-~ 
nial, Leaves very numerous, both at the root _ on the 
tem, long, narrow, and acute, their edges ro ‘mi-- 
nute fharp few bike teeth. Cluffer. ott Bi Daher whe 
with yellow anthers. "This {pecies is faid to b bloffom - 
but rarely i in En 
H. pumila. Jacq. Tc. Rar. t. 4 
Veratram pore 3. 
H. eat ees . 
Ibe ng fi 
ceolate Clufter folitary, very long, of innumerable fozwers, . 
wl anthers. Germen ore af 
fuperion, ‘thou fh Jacquin, from a poor ill-grown {peci 
took it é fe inlctog, and hence july excited in Willdenow, 
the genus. Its form is elliptical, three- 
lobed at the top; colour green. _ ha oe recurved, ... 
i gm eh one has fufpeéted this: plant of 
8's Ve cratrum liuteurt, which we have 
Aube ane attack refi de toant 
th ing | in ap Seige ie habit “loely nian with: the 2 
: “eed | de fe ee her {fj thrafp-rma, fal | 
- Michaux dehnes three ot pecies, 
rte karl OE Whit te 
a Willdenow- removes ~ eared the 
ean determine 
hevicum » 
