HER 
engraved. “On this fubje& the writer of the prefent article 
ve no informatio ion, having returned from the continent 
He 
his. governments 
HER 
tat in Botany, fo named by the late Mr. 
ee r, in honour of the able French botanift, Charles 
Louis l’ liritier de Brutelle, whofe hiftory is given in the 
preceding article. e was, to our knowledge, confulted 
about the orthography of the name, and oe that the 
1’ fhould be dropped, we have thought it beft to arraiige 
give his friends there; 3 of Dombey’s colleGtion, were all his own eerste? article in the fame part of ded alphabet. 
vases given by uffon. Ye found life, se —Ait. Hort. Ve 3s 54) chreb. 812. Mart. Mill, 
his flay, to colleé from ‘the Englifh gardens the ma f Dict. v (Samadera ; eas = 156. Lara and order, 
his Sertum An licum, a work confifting of feveral ftcicl 
though reported to be ted, never appeared. 
mented his library gest “dati his vifit to England, 
after-his return, a while lived happy in the bofom of 
‘his family, diviciis his attention between his {cientific pur- 
fuits, and thofe public duties of which we are now to fpeak. 
The fubject of our — becatne a Confeiller a la Cour 
des Aides, in 1775, and was for a long time the dean of 
‘that court, being peMonally attached -by various ties to its 
chief, M. de Malefherbes, the illuftrions victim to its 
in the clofing {cene of Louis X : 
emulated the auftere public virtue, the private ao ero 
— the univerfal benevolence of this great man, while tl ney 
ed‘ even in their tafte for botanical amufements. No 
aug- 
and 
‘dinties with the mo ot rectitude died incorrupti- 
bility. He alfo fat fan time to time-as a member of the 
ce ee y- His views were always thofe of a true 
< 2a rad £ tion ° ufes, the maintenance of the 
the Englifh mode ; ha if in practice the 
do not a become too much fo for? a 4 
It is’ with pain — we sAoaibe entede the dreadful 
cataltrophe of his married, in 1775, an elti- 
n of the name of Doré, with whom he paffed 
19 years in -domeltie happinefs. _ She died in 1794, leaving 
him five children. He devoted ec to. seins education, 
but with oe to one of — 
in 
of the 
anxiety and uncertainty. 
infule or exultation were overheard in 
murder and 
even. atrocit 
excited pees i€ not "techie, ose — of the pera 
 fays Cuvier, -v 
ague and ¢ se agape Moron — 
ataege a He to or can. we 
bar throw - 
any. —_ — on this ee slog ‘The sort x 
: fenis ho. more. » 8, 
f this kind, fome 
leaft publithed , by 
1 the moft ae fufpi- ‘ 
ar 
Monoecia Mi eto Nat. u 
Male flowers oie ehaet the’ female: —Cal. 
Perianth of one leaf, bell-fhaped, five-toothed. Cor. none. 
Stam. Filament in the centre of the calyx, columnar, conic- 
awl-fhaped, encircled below the fummit with from: five to 
ten minute —— united into a cylinder. 
Fe wers in the fame plant, larger. 
Cal. as in de i Stam. Filament none ; 
anthers ten, Riked on nthe receptacle at the bafe of the ger- 
mens, two between each, didymous, minute, probably bar- 
ren. Piji. Germens five; half-ovate, com prefled, {mooth ; 
ftyles conical, fhort, cohering during impregnation ; itigmas 
club-fhaped. eric. Drupas five, widely {preading, oval; 
of one cell; flattifh above; convex bene ath ; their 
er seg into a wing. Seeds. folitary, large, ‘nearly glo- 
“EA Ch. Male, Calyx five-toothed. Corolla none. Fi- 
lament columnar. Anthers from five to ie below the top. 
Female, Calyx five-toothed. Corolla 
~ 
a 
five, feffile, with five pair of barren sakes between them. 
Drupas five, dry, of one cell. 
i 
Seeds folitary. 
F fittor alis. 
(Samandara 5 Herm. Muf. Zeyh 5. 
agam; Rheede Hort. Mal.. ¥. 6. 37. 
Auguft to No- 
° Sir Jofeph 
entire ; 
ey, “fomething kis Hi 
lowers {mall, reddith, whales in axillary pani icles, refem~ 
bling thofe ok a Soaks. nor are the fruits of thefe genera 
diffimilar in appearance, but the prefent confills, not of 
buriting follicles, but of: a dry clofe drupa, with one feed. 
The cavity, however, is rather larger than the feed, which 
— a doubt refpecting the propriety of its denomina- 
 HERM EA, CE pucti, in Antiquity, a feltival obferved in 
honour of Mercury: yet there were fevera eigen se of 
in Bee 
See Pott.. Archeol. Grace. othe ii, cap. 20 
Crete, &es 
tom. i 
Crete , during the ee a the hermza, the pe 2 
ferv ace flaves at table. s cultom obtained likewife 
seaha the Athenians and Diagleaaiany as. alfo among the 
Romans: witnefs the Saturnalia, which fee. 
HERMANN, Fans in Biography, a Swifs profeffor of 
moral and natural law, who. fiouriihed in the 17th and 18th 
“centuries, was born. | 1678, ats the univerfity of 
which place he ftudied, and’ t € ‘s. > He w 
through a courfe of ealivinitys and was admitted into the 
Chriftian miniftry in” 1701. attached to 
mathematica 
la) : He was chiefly’: ach 
eal odes, and wan ‘ue of the wa diingibed s" 
