HE ® 
_"Thefe animals, being male in one part of the body and 
female in another, and the body flexible withal, M. Hom- 
berg does not think it impoffible but that an earth-worm 
may couple with itfelf, and be both father and mother of 
its YOMne am obfervation which, to fome, appears many 
extrava 
Hen RMAPI ore a term Foeetacallg applied to a large 
fort of waggon in fome diftri€ts, which isc ce . being 
Wace 
Seats fo as to conftitute two coda: 
‘HERMAPOLLON, inAntiquity, a fader. or ht 
compofed. of Mercury and Apollo, reprefenting a young 
man with the fymbols of both nee viz. the petafus 
and caduceus, with the bow an 
HERMAS, in Biography, the Lane of an ancient book, 
called the « Shepherd or Paftor,” quoted by Irenzus, 
a little b ce ore Domitian's fsigeh a We 
lerius and Le Clerc, tranflated by seheisiy Wake. The 
bef edition is that of 1710, Lardner’s Works, vol. ii. 
Hermas, in Botany, a name of whofe meaning its author are 
The plant can have nothing 
Profeffor Martyn tuggehs 
—— has le 4 t no account. 
Mart. Mill Did. Vv. 2. : 
Gertn. t. 85. Clafs and order, 
rather Pentandria Digynia. -) 
3 Schreb. 7 
Lamarck. are 851. 
Polygamia Monoecia, Linn. 
Nat. Ord. Um, mh 
=e 
equal petals. Sy 
than the petals ; 
empty and inefleCtual. 
— is 
than corolla : : ebaiee obtufe.. Pete 
Pos emarginate at the i bafe, eee at the ed 
ymprefied. Paet eBE TC 
Seds two, rt-thaped, €0 
orbicular, fomewhat hea 
4 
grees 
a aoe part of he mid-rib ; 
5; a foot high, fobtary, eset 
- umbe inch bro 
HER 
bias Pied, bordered, marked with one sprighadion! ele: 
ine 
Such are the terminal umbels. The lateral ones are fmaller 
and later, entirely male; their partial rays all bearing flowers,. 
whofe involucrum, perianth, and corolla are like the former.. 
Stam. Filaments five, thread-fhaped, the length of the pe- 
tals; anthers oval, fomewhat didymous, perfeét. The um- 
belliferous tribe being, in various sa a to — 
imperfection of the fexual or conceive there is n 
more propriety in removing this caved tion ae bulk of ick 
order in the Pentandria Digynia, than there would be iu 
taking away fome other genera or {pecies. We fhall there- 
fore give its effential igen with a view to its place there 
near Aflrantia, ‘The younger Linneus. thought it a 
diftinét from Bupkurum, t Thunberg has united the tw 
Eff, C artial involucrum of about two narrow bands: 
Terminal me fertile ; lateral ones male only. 
eerie. Linn, Mant. 299. (Bupleurum vil- 
Thunb. Prodr. an Perfoliata 
6 
lofum ; Linn. Sp. Pl. 343. 
eine oblong 9 Sete fubtis i incanis ; Bu urm ric. 19 
tive of the Cape of Good Ope, as are “al lhe following 
{fpecies. The /fem is'thick and fomewhat woody, —— 
as far as we can judge, fhort and not much elevated.. 
ervded, rigid, two or three inches long and one miele 
ovate or oblong, he art-fhaped at the bafe, with very thort 
broad fosttkallce; their margin fhar te toothed, reflexed bes 
tween the teeth; their upper furface {mooth and =< 
The owers are white or yellowith. 
The habit is fufficiently ments added to the fhape of the: 
petals, fruit, and other chara¢ters recorded in the above 
generic defcription, to keep this fpecies, and {till more the 
3 fubfequent ones, diftinét from ag eurum 
antea. Linn. Suppl Leaves ftalked, 
aipicang , woolly on both fides, nearly entire.— Native 
of the h ace rig es at t uch larger than 
the firit {pec leaves being above a foot long, ra un-- 
like thofe i the Norfolk pais Verbafcum i 
their wool w A off fervi oe tinder. ‘Their tlete 
flightly bert» wavy: ering branch two or 
three feet high, inooth with a large terminal umbel, and 
four or five late 
°. % apitata. "Or Supp. 4 5.—Leaves at ovate, 
Ne aepr ee woolly be genes te onger than their footfalks.. 
Stalk woolly, leafle o> mall herbaceous fpecies, 
aves all radical, 
inch <p not sis “cole thofe ek Dryas oblopetala, dic 
furface nd quite naked, except a woollinefs at 
; the under is clothed with. 
denfe white down; the edge ly and acutely “eon 
: ly oe er than the leaves. Pious 
Beiieete OO POG ee ccliyy, Sa, tential frie fertile 
; the one or two lateral ones 
much fm, The eam the general oe i 
ke ics purplit, ribbed, with a very blunt point 
. quinguedentata. Linn. Supp 1.436. —Stalk fmooth.. 
oothed “oe why ae — Said in the 
ery diftinG, on account of its fimalls 
ie ve rage ferratures cach : anf 
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