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#ragynia, including Saururus, a genus from NPR, ee awas formed by degrees from the year 455, when firft the 
eton was originally placed here, but is now more correctly kingdom of Kent was erected, and Hengift affumed the 
referred to the clals Dodecandria) ;—Heptagynia is re ae 4 title of king of Kent immediately after the battle of Egles- 
order, containing Septas, a Cape plant, contidered by Thun- ford; and it terminated in 827 or 828, when king Egbert 
berg as belon nging to Craffula. It was originally called Tri- reunited them into one, formed the heptarchy into a mo- 
“ples cape fs in the Species Plantarum, and is remarkable snore and affumed the title of king of England. 
for the character by which Linnzus defines it, namely, that it Ve fhall here fubjoin a brief account of the feveral king. 
has a calyx of feven deep fegments, feven petals, feven itamens, ae of the heptarchy, of the manner of their formation, of 
feven germens, and confequently feven capfules. the term of their duration, of the caufes of their diffolution, 
HEPTANGULAR Ficunrg, in Geometry, a figure with and of the monarchy which was fubfequently eltablihed in 
feven angles, and of courfe feven fides. confequence of their union. 
HEPTANOMIS, in Ancient Geograph ys or Middle It was about the year 449 or 450 that the two brothers, 
Egypt, was fo palled” from the feven nomes, o r prefe étures, Hengilt and Horfa, faid to be the ee grandfons of Woden, 
into which it was divided, though Strabo fays it contained and poffeffing great reputation among the Saxons, on account 
16; a difference probably occafioned by the addition of new both of their valour and nobility, brought over with them 1600 
nomes to thofe it ae comprifed, fuch as thefe of men,who landed in the ifle of Thanet, and immediately siarched 
afis. to the defence of the Britons, who had implored their fuccour 
1 hended the whole country on each againit their northern invaders, the Scots and Picts. Having 
fide of the “Nile, & om Thebais to the point of the Delta, ealily conquered thefe invaders, they were induced to direct 
where that river divides into thofe branches by which it en- their arms againft the Britons themfelves. Accordingly 
ters into the fea. Some of the ancients make this traét a they were foon reinforced with a fupply of 5000 men. Thus 
part of the Thebais; and fome of the eaftern geographers recruited, and previoufly apprized of the vices and pufillani- 
alfo give the faid extent to Al-Said. This part of Eg ypt mity of, Vortigern, the Britith leader, they fought a quarrel 
was, in ancient times, full of large and nob Sa cities. See with the Britons, by complaining that their fublidies were ill 
Eacyp aid and their provilions withdrawn ; and immediately throw- 
HEPTAPHA RMACUM, arelaxing, fuppnrating, and ing off the maik, they formed:an alliance with the Piés and 
incarnating medicine, compofed of feven ‘ingre ients. ‘Lhis Scots, and proceeded to open hottility pe the Britons. 
of among the ancient writers in medicine. In the battle of Eglesford, now Ailsford, Horfa was flain, 
"The i ing edients were, cerufs, wax, pitch, litharge, colophony, and the fole command of his countrymen devolved on Hengilt. 
bull’s fat, and ae It is deicribed by Actius in This aétive general, deriving continual reinforcements from 
his Tetrab. ferm. 3.. ge ermany, extended the terror of his < arms, and with this view. 
HEPT in Botany, Er om izle, feven, and {pared nei ther age, nor fex,nor condition, wherever he marched 
WAL pov, a Si im da accome of the feven-fided capfule. Gaertn. with his victorious forces. The private and public edifices of 
Ve 2. 492. t. 178. fiege the Britons were reduced to afhes ; the priefls were flaugh- 
 Gertner hie given his name toa fru that came under his tered on the altars by thefe idolatrous ravagers ; the bifhops 
infpeGtion, i in the collection cee the garden of Ley- and nobility fhared the fate of the vulgar ; the peopl, et 
den. It was there marked wi eylon ni name, Bukera. to the mountains and deferts, were intercepted and butc 
He calls it in his letter-prefs H. fellas, in the plate H. acu- in heaps: fome were glad to accept of life and fervitude 
tangulum. His characte and defcription are as ec Si under their victors others, deferting their native country, 
Eff. er unknown. Capfule fome took fhelter in the province of Armorica, where, being chari- 
midal, with ftar-like angles, without — (Cells feo or tbl received by a people of the fame language and manners, 
feven.) Seeds folit y fettled i in great numbers, and gave the country the name 
Defer. Peric. a {mall coriaceous suk. pyramidal, fome- of t Brittany.’ 
what ovate, marked with an obfolete ring, perhaps where the © Among other caufes which facilitated the entrance of the 
. flowe r was infertéd, a little below the to top, above which ring Saxons into this ifland, one has been affigned by Britifh wri- 
AS 
it is extended i into a furrowed reddith points its fhape isan- ters, e paffion Seah Vy ogee ies Row 
fix or feven cells, without daughter of Hengift, of which thi ei 
» oblique ftaik, like that of ior a mfelf in order to bind the eyes of oo im- 
umbelliferous ant ey none, the feeds being affixed It is added he fame hiftorians, that 
~to the tops of the cells—Seeds fo! folitary, o vate, narrower Vorti gern was reftored to the 2 deo on the death of 
upwards, a a Paes reddith. — balers quite fimple, Vortimer, he accepted a banquet from Hengift, at Stone 
very thin and membranous,—Albumen. fhaped like the feed, where 300 of his nobility were tee flaugh- 
flefhy, pale. —Embryo in | hewppe rmott pat of aes albumen, , and himfelf detained captive. But thefe ftories are 
very minute, poflibly monocotyledonou bly apologies invented b the ‘Welth authors fy. be 
Among ; ose three only feet ‘ fix cells, the reft | i re 
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having fevel ar nt fruit feems to be covered with a gr d licentious devaftations of the Saxons. W 
ent cathe ef the dried capfule i is very of Vortimer, was in 
raga, Garinet Seopa command over his Say ets he endeavoured to unite the f 
d of the Greek ixre, feven, in their refiftance againft the Saxons. But though saa 
and 2pyn, imperium, government, a “government compoled of forts were not alt eer unfuccefsful, Hen mainta 
feven "s ohanp dad or ‘ea co acd governed by feven perfons, or ae ground j in SP and in order to divide eb the attes- 
ee ua on and the forces of the natives, he called over a new | ak 
= re : tno nen ly included. all England, which was 7 Saxons, under the command of his brother Octa, 
* ‘antone ut into feven petty depen, kingdoms, peopled of Ebifla, the fon of O@a, and feted. them a eae 
different clans and colonies; viz. thofe of berland.. He himfelf remained in the - 
| Kent, sale Souths Saxons, Welt Saxons, Eaft Saxons, Nor- th and laid the foundation of the ore im of Ki Ki ee 
© thumb t nd, the Eait —e and Mertia The heptarchy com comprehending the county of that name, Middle og 
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