— 
from the fame prolific region. ‘The laft edition of the Lin- 
nan Syitemata, by Murray, comprehends 17; Willdenow 
has 30. There is a perpetual ambiguity betwixt this genus 
and Mélicrnin, ie which latter Willdenow reckons up ‘eight 
fpecies —Thunberg, who unites the two genera, has bile 27 
all. 
"We fhall fubjoin a few examples of Hermannie. 
. althaifolia, ea Sp. fis Raa Curt. Mag. t 
Yo mn. on : 5 ce H. aurea; Jacq. Hort. Sahanbe. 
2. 46. t. Kbit afeibes ceteene: foltis mollibus 
et ‘Saeannine love fpirali fulphureo ommel. wa v. 2 
157. t. 79.) —Leaves ovate, crenate, plaited, downy. Lower 
fupulas ovate ; upper elongated, Calyx bell-fhaped, angular. 
' =<This, like S ne oats as we have aid, is a native of the 
Cape, and is Gites! where it is re 
markable for ie velvet foftnefs offi i Fess like that of the 
‘Marth-mallow, and its numerous drooping flowers, whofe 
eae petals are sisal with their “rough yellowith 
iH. “iphcata: Ajit. Hort. last n. 2. (H. althzifolia ; Jacq. 
Hort. rte chetd oR ~. w 
ulate, sce: ihe ee-r may confoukded with the firit, 
but its haves are alan greener, and ‘rather hairy than 
downy. The fipulas are broad, often three-cleft: M 
Maffon feitt it to PRL w, among other things colleéted by him 
at the Cape, i 
ag 
. 
hem Ais Pl. 942. Curt. Mag. t. 299. 
br. v. 3. 22. t. 291. Mill. Tlutr. t. 56. 
—Leaves obovate, fntthiad wed e-fhaped, abrupt, emar- 
nes toothed, Sone ers cactiae: compound ; their ftalks 
bout three-flowe a og eg of the mati common and oldeft 
ny as Mr. Curtis 
im Englanes 
ey! aiedulijota: Linn. Sp. Pl.942. Curt. Mog.t 304. 
Cavan. Diff. t. 180. f. 1. Jacq. Hort. Schonbr. 46. 
21 eta elliptic-lanceolate, obtufe, entire, Saaway. 
as linear. lar—This was in the — 
yarn before ee and is now very com ves 
are pale end t. Flowers a Say ,orage-coloured, 
roduced at haie and in confiderable 
_H. argentea—Leaves doubly coat g Seca with 
filvery tarry ae) ; their fegments decurrent. Flower- 
fomewhat rac mofe, elongated, fingle-flowered. —We 
with mott beautiful hives flarry or fe The Sowers 
ted with orange ‘as yellow. _ Their 
beil- 
ANNUS Con ONTRACTUS in Bi } 1 
| and pious count and monk of Suabi a ks 9 aoe cee 
the two cin pee hymns. in the = ith Sails ‘Chiireh, & Salve 
_ the fame time. 
m two characters, are alfo hermaphrodit 
HER 
Regina,” "and “ Alma Redemptoris.” He had the reputa- 
tion of great learning, and knowledge of hiftory, and of the 
arts and fciences. He left behind him a Chronicle, a ee 
on Mufic, in two parts, and a tra€t on the Monochord, 
died at Alefhufenin 1054. He was a monk of St. Gal, oad 
had the cognomen of Contradus, from a general contraétion 
in all his limbs. 
HERMAPHRODITE, titauaeeobite- ee perfon who 
has ae the fexes, or the genital parts both tf male and 
em 
For it is to be obferved, Hermaphroditus“was originally 2 
r name, applied by the heathen mythologifts to a 
fabulous deity, whom fome reprefent as a fon of Hermes, 
Mercury, and Aphrodite, Venus ; and who, being defperately 
in love with the nymph Salmacis, eas Be of the gods to 
have his body and her’s united into 
that the god Hermaphroditus was a pork 
and Venus, thus exhibiting the union of nana or of 
commerce, reprefented by Mercury, with Pleafure or Venus. 
Others think this junction intended to fhew, that Venus, 
Pleafure, was of both fexes ; as, in effect, the poet Calvus 
calls Venus a go 
M. Spon obferves, Hefychius calls Venus Apbhroditos: 
and Theophraflus affirms, that Aphroditos, or Venus, is 
Hermaphroditus ; and that, in the ifland of Cyprus, fhe has 
a {tatue, which reprefents her with a beard like a m 
Greeks alfo call hermaphrodites axdgoivvot, androgyni, q- d. men 
qvemen 
nter, in his account of the free gta ee ba 
obferved, that, in many of the inferior tribes als, the 
male ed female parts of generation are found ey rie pero 
in the fame animal, which, from poffefling both parts, are 
called hermaphr odite. Thefe hermaphrodites he divides into 
the natural re unnatural, or monftrous. The natural kind 
belongs to the inferior and more fimple order of animals 5 
but as animals become licated, and each part 1s 
among every tribe of animals having diitin¢t fexes, but 
it is more common in fome than in others. The human fpecies 
hes the feweft; but in the horfe, afs, fheep, and cattle, they 
are very frequent. Pail. Tranf. vol. Ixix. part i. p- 279 &¢ 
See free Martix. On the fubjee of es fee 
Hermaphrodijm under the article GENERA 
Divers of the infe& and reptile re are truly hermaphro- 
ant : aah worms, {nails, 
o the Memoirs of the French Remy, we have am 
pe of this very Sree! kind of hermaphrodite 
which not only have both fexes, but do the office of both at 
Such are eart -worms, feet rh 
‘ound in the inteftines of men and horfes, land-fuails, and 
thofe of frefh waters, and all the forts of leeches: on ai 
all thefe are reptiles, and without bones, M. Poupart ele 
cludes it probable, that all other ines, — have t 
The method of coupling, pradtifed i in 
phrodites, may be illuftrated in the inftance afele 
fee 8 = Infe@. p. 2.) Thefe little creatures cre 
y two, out of holes proper ea receive them, W. 
plans Shae bddies in fuch a manner, pa that the ! bw 
the one is turned to the’ tail of the other. bare t 
ftretched lengthwife, a little conical button or ee ie 
an het 
ou 
ruft forth by ; each, and received into : 
