HEM 
Corolla large, yellow, externally downy. Plukenet’st. 331. 
f. 3. is too unlike this plant in the flowers to merit cita- 
tion. 
6. H. macrophylla. ‘Thunb. Prodr. 1o5.. Nov. Gen. 76.— 
Stamens four. Leaves oppolite, ovate, fomewhat heart- 
fhaped, toothed. Flower-{talks capillary.—Gathiered by 
Thunberg at the Capes between Bockland and Hantum, 
near the thore. By Lis defeription, which is all we know 
concerning this fpecies, it feems moft akin to the laft, but 
differing in the characters given above, as well as in the 
violet colour of its corolla. 
7. H. urticifolia. (Celfia urticefolia; Curt. Mag. t. 417.) 
caves ovate, or fomewhat lanceolate, 
ferrated ; the floral ones alternate. Capfule abrupt.— 
Brought by Mr. A. Menzies from Peru. It flowered 
beanufully at Kew in May 1797, and is now common in 
every greenhoufe and parlour window. We have had the 
feeds remain latent for feven years in a garden, and then 
fpringing wp in the autumn, they have produced fine flower- 
ing plantsby the end of February, in a room with a fire. 
The flem is from three to five feet high, branched, leafy, 
fquare, fearcely thrubby, though exifting for three or four 
with care ina flove. Leaves oppolite, ftalked, much 
refembling Urtica wrens, but fmooth and thining, fetid 
when brutfed. “Flowers ftalked, axillary, from t 
and fmaller leaves, of a molt vivid fearlet, 
purplith at the bottom, with yellow anthers. 
metimes five. C, comprefled and abrupt at the 
extremity, not ee > sy by which itis effentially 
peg. od from the following, though their leaves, how- 
ever di t in general, fometimes nearly approach each 
other, 
8. H. knearir. Sm. Tr. of Linn. Soc. v6. 97. Tour 
. coccinea 
Amie gee fear te das H. ; Willd, 
- tag 3 28%. Celfia 13 Jacq. Coll. v. 2.270. 
ve * ti . 
HEM 
alfo cotyla, ac . 
coutained eight ounces of liquor; and was the twelfth part 
of the congius, 
that this hetnina wasa meafure peculiar to the 
as well as the pound of bread allowed the fame religious; 
which -ouly confilted of fifteen ounces. F, Lancelot has a 
diflertation to prove, that the hemina of wine, preferi 
by St. Benedict, only amounts to a demisfepticr of Paris 
m 3 bat others make it two feptiers; and others 
three, 
_ HEMIOBOLON, a weight often meationed by the an 
cient writers in icine, and exprefling the halt of their 
or the twelfth part of a dram, that is, five grains, 
LUS, or Hearotra, compounded of gusmvsy 
half, and ido, ewhole, an ancient mathematical te 
oblerves, that. the concord, . called in 
diapente, and in the modern a ffth, arifes from this pro- 
HEMIONITIS, in Botany, from susooy a mule, bee 
uppofed to be barren 
Curt. Mag. t. 210.)—Stamens four, caufe it was fuppof «Mule Fern.—The 
Leaves te, fomewhat ferrated, three in a Diofcorides » by his defcription, to be 
whorl ; the floral ones alternate, entire. - ule poi mt Hemionitis of Laelia been fup- 
: Lima by the unfortunate Dombey, though . Tae name in que is fore to 
*sthe aby Ortega” made no mention of him when he fignate another genus of dorfiferous Ferns, fomewhat re 
fent the feeds to Jacquin, We faw it in flower at Paris in ing ancient plant in habit, and next akin to it, 
1786, and it was foon after brought from t to Eng- though difline, in frudification—Linn. Gen. 560. Schreb, 
land. ‘This fecms more tender than the lait, being now $7- Swartz. Syn. Fil. 20. Sprengel. Crypt. gg. & % 
lefs common here. “Their flowers nearly agree. Tike 19. Jufl, 15. Lamarck. Illuftr, t. 868. ad 
of the et cite aerate and are commonly very » Cr ia Filices. Nat. Ord, Fikcer, Linn, Jaf. 
arrow and acute we them-almoft.as Gen.) Capfules anu in di fingle lines, 
broad as i the lait ; while, ow the other hand, we have often which are either reticulated, forked, or croffing each other 
ald plants, the leaves of that as narrow as in this, alternately. /svo/ucrum none. : | 
"The capfale however of /1. linearis proves it a very diftin@ ~ Ei. Ch. Fruétification in feattered fingle lines, croffing 
i elon, Coe ee means each other, forked, or reticulated. Involucrum 
upt oF of hat alfo  Obf. We have,already, under the article Dirtasiu™ 
rather more of the red-lead cait, and the flem iva little explained the reafon of that genus being feparated from the 
sate fhrubby, with axillary tufts of copious little linear ea with mee it ba been Bicep vars 6g 
ves, wanilles, as _ formerly i Liaeres 
The error of Ortera, in taking this for a Ceffa, baving and Swartz. The latter writer now dehacs eight fpecies of 
been adopted acquin, and far toa » Hemicnitity which include what Linnaus originally founded 
though not blindly, by Curtis, has caufed the wide the genus upon, and therefore this name p belong? 
gation of 8 wrong generic name for thefe two very po} he mia ty Mlwdlitie Aemtelees ons ea ions, and we 
| | outs kes are difkcult to , and thofe add two new fpeciestocach fedtion, = 
who correct thetn run the rifque of being blamed for chang. 2 fon 
ing names among the + & cenfure oaly deferved by 
tuch as alter names only, even though for the better, 
without fi any sew information in inflance, or 
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