“+ leaft oil 
, RER 
fi gineta, who calls it robia herba, takes pains to diftinguith 
Py | "glint call 
toria, or dyer’s weed, at this time common both in England 
and Greece, and ufed in both places in dyeing yellow. P 
_ .tells us, that the lutum had the leaves of flax, and the 
flowers of broom; this. fufficiently fhews that it was the 
plant we have mentioned. | 
Hersa Scythica,aname by which fome authors have called 
the common Ganccee, the root and infpiffated juice of which 
are ufed in the fhops. 
Hersa Vulcani, a name ufed by fome writers for the 
- “ranunculus, r 
Hera, in Geography, a town 
Sahara; E 
of Africa, in the defert of 
50 miles S. E. of Gurdeia—Alfo, a town of Al- 
d it. Hereva 
probably of the 
ffins, on fome of 
which are infcriptions, with hollows on the upper furface, 
n. 
a 
o 
CEOUS Piants, in Vegetable Phyfiology, are 
thofe whofe herb (fee Herpa) is but of annual duration, 
whether the root be annual, biennial, or. perennial. The 
term is erroneoufly reftri&ted in Willdenow’s Principles of 
Botany, Englifh edition, 131, to plants which “ bear flowers 
feeds but once and then die.”” 
Herbaceous plan 
; ERBACEOUS Plants, Foffil. Mr. Kirwan remarks, ( 
- logical Effays, p. 318.) that the foffil plants found in the 
carboniferous {trata, coal-meafures, are thofe of herba- 
-ceous plants, as ferns, &c. 
rved, 
cinity of coal to be of unknown fpecies. 
ZOALS and CoLLiErizs. 
: << = tee a colleétive name, comprehending all kinds 
See our articles 
: What makes. the principal difference in the goodnefs of 
 ceffa 
Geo- j 
HER 
a book which treats of plants, .or defcribes 
properties, virtues, &c. of herbs, 
HERBAL, 
the figure, genus, f{pecies, 
trees, feeds, plants, &c. 
Such are Gerard’s Herbal, Parkinfon’s Herbal, &c. 
of the feveral kinds of plants, dried and preferved in the 
leaves of a book, called alfo a Hortus Siccus, 
n the Philofophical Tranfaéti wi 
them on frefh paper 
Laitly, lick over the back fides with a bruth dipped 
n reitore 
dried plant, by immerfion, in bo ng water, fo that all but 
its colours becomes prefent before us. Sot of the sod 
learned botanifts have been cenfured for truiting to fs 
is by drying 
: {pecimens of plants between Z. 
.» butters and cheefes, is the difference of herbage. as perfed as pofible, fhowing the ordinary ftate a fp 
_ Hersace, in Law, fignifies the green patture or fruits of of the fpecies, and when laid out to dry, fhould aw 
the-earth, provided by nature for the food of cattle. ormally or artificially expanded, fo as to deftroy their ; a 
_ , Hersace is alfo ufed for a liberty which a man hath to. ra@eriftic habit, but merely fo as to prevent unna ural fo “a 
_. feed his cattle in another man’s ground ; as, in the foreft. . The flower ma 
— B, in. Rural Economy, a term v * inten 
Plied to fuch grafs lands .as.are moftly kept in the ftate of ogrefs ; 
paitur occafionally employed to fignify the a 
-. SARE . ee & RASS. - ; lace 
« Pei Biography, capitaine. be i si . are 
5 ee eee ice. of France, and chevalier de St. where each ould be marked ; or they th 
 *_., uavinia,? at Paris, 1756; * Celime,” in one act, for the eak carpet : ed: from the 
_-, 2 theatre Ital. in-1763 5.¢ Les deux Talens,” in 1 764; « Nae “y ived, by 
4 mette and Lucas,” written by M. Framery. a fo 
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