HEL 
Anthericum calyculatum of Linnzus, Tofeldia 
FL. Brit. 397. Eng. Bot. t. 536; but. its 
calyx, and the fhort ityles with blunt terminal figmas, hich 
in'the American Toetieks confounded with our's, are almoft 
capitate, rather difcountenance its union with Helonias, how- 
ever fimilar they Fees be in habit and fruit. 
HELOPODIUM, from *A0-, a wart, or tubercle, and res, 
a foot, becaufe the tubercles, or ee, are elevated 
on ftalks; a tribe of Lichens, n the 
of Acharius, p- 198, but fubfequenily funk i in his Methodus, 
in his genus Beomyces. tis, however, adopted by Michaux, 
or r Amer. v. 2. 329, who defcribes one — H. capi- n 
‘Salant, found in Carol Ina, growing on the earth, 
H S, in SOMO, a caheiciee genus of coleop- 
See Pim 
[ELo S, in belly, the name of a fifh which often 
occurs in ge old Greek and Latin writers. Ariftotle, 
ZElian, Ovid, and others, mention it. It feems to have hich 
eg ris, Sm, 
real 
diftinguifhe 
tera ra 
ithe fame with their onifcus, and accipefius, which was our 
sfiurgeon. Pliny’s account of the helops countenances this 
opinion. 
HELORUS, in Ancient Geography, a town of Sicily, 
‘near the mouth of a river o the fame na 
ELOS, a town of Greece, in fe Sce Hetors. 
HELOS IS » from Saw, to turn, in Surgery, a turning out 
of the eye-lids,. See Ecrrorivm. 
TIS, a name given by fome authors to a difeafe 
‘caibed plica polonica 
HELOT tory an excrefcence or 
nus of the natural order o 
le 2 following charaéter 
head, fmooth on both fides, 
—He enumerates, fix {pecies, of which 
will ferve a as an example. 
iH aciculare. (Lectia acicularis ; 
We as 20. t. 5. fe 1. t. 6. fi. 1, 2. Helvella agariciformis ; 
erb. Fung. t. 57.)— SS eskian. sah permanent. 
Head rather concave when young.—Fou n the rotten 
trunks of o ks in autumn. The’ whole fina is white. 
Perf. Obf. Mycol. 
garic, but without gills, and Perfoon has fhew 
his exquilite figures, that the upper hohe or difk, coal Re 
of clole vertical cells, 1 in each of which numero: 
nated elliptical minute feeds are lo 
ened in” Antiquity, a kind of flaves, among the 
onians, occupying a kind of middle {tate Bree yeen 
flaves and free citizens, fo namedfrom Helos, a Laconian wn, 
artans, who made all the. Sshalitects 
the condition of flavery. 
On thefe flaves lay the whele care of fupplying the city 
with provifions ; the ground was tilled, and all mann 
trades : managed ‘by them ; whilft their maiters {pent all their 
time in none: and felting, : their ing aoe : 
matches, and © Aimrxya by ’ 
Rees to meet. _ Thefe Helots 
tans 5. > in 
ret the pe of the ted 
an 
rhea’ proprior of land to advan They we 
;_in time of war they ee as iors 
every oplites, or he 
nites. as iceceapanied by one “ herd of hay 
Noewihanting the great. reas: he Helots, they 
re treated in a molt barbar ses “dike: and often mur- 
Prodromus i 
Re- So 
us = neate- _ 
war, and reduced them and their potterity to 
Ge 
HET 
dered without committing any fault, and without any fhew 
of juitice. Many of them have occafionally been emancie 
pated in recompence of their fervices to the ftate. But this 
beneiit they could receive only from the flate ; becaufe they 
belonged more to that than to the citizens whofe land they 
cultivated ; ; and on this ac 
avé given occafion to the proverb, that “ at ‘Sparta, the 
free man is = freeft of all men, and the flave the greateft 
of flaves."’ Pott. Heese Grac. lib. i. cap. 10. Travels 
of Anacharfis, vol. i 
PITCH, in  Cersraphy, a town of the ifland of 
i bes, ; eight miles S. of Candy. 
HELPS, mthe Manege. To teach a horfe his leffons, 
there are at ae or aids to be known: thefe are, t 
voice, rod, Snaffte ; we calves of the legs, the firrupt, 
the urs and ae ground. See 
he helps are 7 onally uses into correétions 
HELSING 
It was formerly forti 
but is ber defencelefs and has little commerce. Its manu- 
factures are ribbons, hats, and boots. Here is a ferry acrofs 
the Sound to meena’ ; 28 miles N.W. of Lund. N. lat. 
56° 5’. _ E. long. 12° 30’ 
HELSINGFORS: a -fea-port town of Sweden, in the 
province of Nyland, on the N. coaft of the gulf of Finland, 
built by Guftavus L Its oo is romantic, on a rifing 
huge fragments of gra 
eft ae in the province, and is 
. fended by feveral the particularly that called Ulricabergs 
epeble of containing 200 men, and another named Scatar- 
der-tyg, which can accommodate 400 foldiers; 140 miles 
of Abo. N. lat 60° 11’. E. long. 24° 56’. 
HELSING ICCrar ACTER, a charater inferibed on fome 
ones found in Helf ngland, in the north parts of Sweden. 
It differs from the Ruvic; ; though one of thefe characters 
may doy! be transformed into the other. See Ruwnic- 
Sy taal 4 ona 8 - * province Swe- 
amtland and os. 
Pe 
7) 
Si, deals, timber, as The principal town 1 
HELSINGO, a fmall iffand on the E. fide of the gulf 
8 of Bo E. lon 
N. lat. f+ 22° 30% 
HELSINGOER. a town of Denmark, o he E. coal 
of the ifland of Zealand, built on the fide of phere 
near the found, and next to Co pelts: eee “G 
moft beautiful town of the ifland. At this place all mer 
