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impgfed upon it by the publicans of Rome: It wa s famous 
for its {plendid library, its temple, and public places, 
adorned Le a number of fine ftatues, rataek were plundered 
by Cotta, who alfo took away a magnificent ftatue of Her- 
ctles. 
HER/ 
the Greek writers to the lithofpermum, or egrongel, 
was originally called the herackon JSporon 
ber ere ulean 
the latter 
‘It 
* soy TTOPby the 
n-fecdy from Sa remarkable Cedice oy the feed ; but 
ped, and the heracleon only prefered, 
is great reafon eau ufing the word diofpyros as a 
fronyn for the gromwell, becaufe it is a name given by 
the Greeks to a very different kind of vegetable, 
4 fore Of Nery: Pliny, lib. xxvi. cap. 
HERACLEONITES, ancient ee a the fe& of 
the Gnoltics ; thus called roms their leader, Heracleo: 
St. papbaniue Her. 36. is very ample on this herefy. 
refents Heracleon as one who had reformed the 
tology BE the Gnottics.in many points ; though, at bottom, 
he had retained the principal articles thereof. “He refined 
on the ordinary interpretations of abun dxiae of texts of 
{cripture ; and even altered the words of fome, to make 
them confilt Ww ith his own notions ns, 
as dro 
world immediately, and wr hima ‘but ole hie he gave 
occafion.to the demiurgos to do 
The he Heracleonites, after the example of their geulbe an- 
- Nulled all the ancient prophecies ; holding that St. John 
really the voice that proclaimed and. {teers out the Metis; ; 
but that the prophecies were only e 
nothing. They held themfelves fee 
ledge, to the apoftles ; and on that ooting, d. 
he moft extravagant paradoxes, on pretence of SPeEpaaieiap 
feripture in a. en elevated manner. They were fo 
fond of thefe interpretations, that Origen, though 
inclined to that mode of interpretation, was obliged to re- 
proach Heracleon with his abufing feripture by that means. 
HERACLEOPOLIS, in Ancient Geogr. eograpin a town of 
eset which was the country of the philofopher Theo- 
pha 
HERACLEOTIS, an ifland of the Mediterranean, be- 
. een Italy and Sicily, according to the Itinerary of An- 
ee one of the Eolian ifles, now called aire 
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|agree in ccceiutie to it virtues of 
rary or healing ature: Boehmer, i in his Differtation 
¥pon plants named in honour of botanifts, publifhed at “Wit- 
tenberg in ais has fuppofed 1 this to dae been called after 
: Herachdes the = ther nt tes. - Whatever may 
been ee, umary haem it is_now ap- 
priated ae Lingus Fain and mo er writers, to 
or Cow Parlvep ; ‘ though 
Heracleara 3 is, as he ag fays, uncertain 
is little doubt of 
Mili v. ae AG. Hor. pam oe st: 
ree. Ve 1. 1 Jufl. 222. 
marek itt. t. "200. bated tia Wigs t. age 
Ra og 
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ACLEON, in Botany, a name given by fome of 
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* root with the common wh £4 
t. 61, which has 
Pl. 359 which has fimple and ‘Jobed ones, well repre’ fented in 
- ‘Baulna 
HER as 
Gaertn. v. 1. 86. t. 21.)—Clafs and order, Pentandria 
Digynia. Nat. Ord. Unbellifera: 
General umbel of many rays, very we partial 
at. ese, inwolucrum of many leaves, decidiiou rtial 
halved on the outfide, its lenflets. from three to ita inear- , 
, Fils 
ie ig the difk ; dna {mall. 
nearly ovate; ftyles two, approximated, fhort ; 
fimple. Peric. Fruit peters sees ed, emarginate, 
ftriated on each fide in the m Seeds two, ovate, com- 
prefled, fomewhat leafy at the e 
Ef, Fruit elliptical, Wotehed. comprefled, ftriated, 
Flowers radiant. Petals ee 
ee involucrum deciduo 
Obf. Linn marks that in fome fpecies the radiant 
ent are bak and Ati, pete of the difk being deftitute 
igmas, and confequently abortive. He adds that #. 
Sp ondylium, which comprifes the two firlt egy pe" fpecies 
f ‘Tournefort, has both organs perfe¢t in all its sat 
while? its involucrum is fometimes altogether wantin 
A genus of the moft gigantic sag emit plants ; ex 
erhaps Ferula, which is taller, and fome fpecies bf Lafr- 
more Pccotso and on the whole 
dilated i in the margin. 
with an inflexed pont. 
fined in: the Naame Fl. Grec.—The following examples are 
fuflicient. (Linn. 8 Ph pas Bot 
ondylium. Inn. Op. 35 Pe t. 939+. 
spend ae Rivin. Pent, Irr. t. 4. Ger Raii 
5.)—Le aves pinnate ; ‘Neale, dilated, “ pinmatifd, 
ped ti aa ted.—Native of thickets, hedges, borders of 
fields, and meadows, in moft parts of Europe. Dr. Sibthorp 
found it in Gree I 
ranca urfin 
d herbalilts, though very little refembling the true one. 
The root is biennial, tap-fhaped, whitifh. Stem ereGt, branc 
ae font, apa furrowed and reugh, about fuur feet . 
high » ternate or pinnate, hairy, moft down vf 
and whitith beset varioufly pinnatifid, cut and ferrat 
The form of each leaflet is ufually broad and fhort, heart- 
fhaped at its bafe; but there is a teageeasy variety, miftaken 
by fone for the anguffifolium of Linnzus. This variety, as 
ar ed, fometimes grows fro from 
It i ented in Petiver’ 3 
bfervation. 
, ft a ‘olium of Linneus, which by a miflake found i its 
way into the Fl. Brit. appears, by his herbarium, a 
diftine ipecies, the nw being pinnatifid, with extremely 
ong, narrow, decurrent, entire fegments, rough at the edges. 
“th 
H. auftriacum, Linn, Sp. Pl. 359. Jacq. Auftr. 
vf ince, and H. alpinum, Linn, Sp. 
’s Prodromus, p. 83, be diftinét fpecies, is another 
ce, See a pau a very exact obferver, has not 
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