HER 
ether hand, fo unlike the reft, that at firt one eannot but 
doubt its genus; yet the feeds remove every uncertainty. 
The Laves are twice ternate, fmooth, and cut into many 
{mall, elliptical, acute fegments. 
The three following tpecies are hitherto nondefcript, ex- 
cept the fhort characters given in the Prodromus Flore 
Grece. 
-__H., tomentofum. Sm. Prodr. Fl. Gree. v. 1. 192. Fl. 
Grec. inedit. t. 281.—Leaves repeatedly compound, 
downy, cut; their fegments lanceolate, acute. Umbel of 
rays —Gathered in Greece by Ur. Sibthorp, 
but in what particular {pot is not recorded. ‘The root is tap- 
fhaped, annulated, apparently perennial, or at leaft biennial, 
being crowned with old fibres from the leaf-falks of the 
former year. Whole herb clothed with fine, white, foft, 
fimple, fometimes with afew fhort lateral branches, round, 
deepl rowed, naked in the upper part eaves moltly 
radicz fpan long, ftalked, thrice pinnate, the main 
confift, for the moft part, of three fpreadiv 
rarely of two : 
root of this fpecies 
Siem 18 inches or more in height, 
rough, furrowed, repeatedly aid alternately branched. Ra- 
dical ayes of two' pair of heart-fhaped, blunt, pinnatifid or 
three-lobed, cut leaflets, with a fomewhat larger terminal 
one; ftem-leaves {maller, narrower, and more acute. 
H. ile. ibid. 193. ves moftly bipinnate, cut, 
downy. Stem but little branched, Seeds with four lines on 
fet upper part.—Native of the Bithynian Olympus. Sibrd. 
oot 
a 
r lines, reaching from the middle to the fummit on 
each fide of the fruit. . 
_ Henacteum, in Ancient Geography, a place of Africa, 
» which is placed by Strabo between Cano- 
oa and the Canopic mouth, and in which was a temple of 
Hercules.—Alfo, a promontory of Africa, in rica. 
Strabo.—Alfo, a promontory of the Black fea, to the weit 
of the mouth of the Thermodoon, according to Ptolemy, 
Arrian places it n th is and Thermodoon.— 
Alfo, a promontory of Afiatic Sarmatia, upon the Black 
fea, near the river Nefis, between the Bor ys and Mafetica, 
according to Arrian.— Alfo, a town of the Tauric Cherf 
nefus, ont 
A rriar it between the rivers Iris and 
uric 
fus, on the weflern fide of the Palus-Meotis; which, ac- from H 
rt of Ribat, at 
from the Palus Afeotis —Alfo, a 
galled Heracka, which fee,—Alfo, 
cies E 
~ 
HER 
Colchide, upon the coaft of the Euxine fea, near the mout 
of the river Cianefus, according to Pliny 70 miles from 
Sebaltopolis. - 
HERACLEUS Laprs, in the Natural Hiftory of ihe 
Ancients, a name by which many have called the loaditone. 
‘This was the name given to it by the ancient Greeks from 
Leraclea, a city of Lydia, near which it ufed to be found; 
but fubfequent writers fo far erred from the origin and or. ° 
the word, as to call it Aerculeus lapis, as if it 
had been named from Hercules. 
The after-ages of the Greeks called it alfo magnetis lapis, 
but this wasa name by no means applied to it in the earlier 
times, but then was ufed to expres a very different fub- 
ance, a white filvery-looking ftone, which had no power of 
attraction, but was turned into beautiful veflels for the ufe of 
the table ; and the not attending to the ages in which the au- 
thors lived who ufed the word magnetis, has been the occafion 
of great errors in their commentaters, who did not confider 
that in the fucceffion of a few ages, the fame word became 
the name of two very different things. Hill's Theoph. 
p-79. See BASALTEs. 
A 
The 
feftival in honour o re 
pples were offered to him. 
feitivals kept in honour of Hercules ; for a defcription of all 
which, fee Potter’s Archzol. Gree. lib. ii. cap. 20. tom. is 
P. 398, feq. 
HERACLIAS, in Geography, an ifland in the Grecian 
Archipelago, about eight mies in circumference ; five mi 
5. of Naxia. N. lat. 36” 49’. . long. 25° 29% 
HERACLIDA, in Antiquity, the defcendants of Her- 
cules, whom the Greeks called ‘Hp2xan:, Heracles, from 
‘Hpx, Juno, and xdzo: on account of the glory he 
v7 as by executing what Juno induced him to under- 
e. 
The Heraclide were expelled from Peloponnefus by Eu- 
riftheus, king o cenz, after the death of Hercules; 
t 
matters of that mountainous province. But the wilde of 
Oeta and Parnaflus were little adapted to fatisfy men, who'® 
anceftors had enjoyed much more valuable po ifions. 
natural ambition was long repreffed by the increafing 
nels of the Pelopide, and the glory of Agamemnon. te 
the unexpected difafters of that prince, they twice attemptces 
unfuccefsfully, to break through the Corinthian ifthmuss 
and to recover their ancient dominion in Argos ani ego A 
mon. Inttructed by paft mifcarriages, I'emenus, ©!" 
phontes, and Ariftodemus, defcendants in tl ap 
ro ercules, finally abandoned the hopelefs defign 0 
entering the Peloponnefus by land. «Determining, © 
ever, to make every exertion for regainin 
harbour, at the northera extremity of the Cori 
ellablifhments, they prepared tranfports in every poi gil 
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