‘ 
What Poly 
HER 
minute, rigid briftles or hairs, with which the leaves are alfo 
ongly frmged. A Swifs {pecimen of H. glabra has been 
. difcovered with pubefcence on its ftem, which evidently be- . 
- alpina. 
* Leaves obovate, 
_ its extremely longs fimple root, bearing a very wide-fpread- 
i t, compofed of innumerable matted ftems 
more commonly four or five inches. 
its leaves anungniihes it from either of the foregoing, and 
iairs, which more or lefs clothe every part, are much 
. more long, Jax, and fpreading than even in A. hirfuta. 
eC 
rod. Fl. Gree. v. 1 
macrecarpa. Sm. ‘ : - 167.— 
hairy on both fides as well 
ear ene: 
*¢ Leaves. obovato-lanceolate, 
as the calyx. 
by Dr. Sibthorp on the. road fide betwe 
Burfa, as well as in Laconia. 
the fruit larger, 
the pubefcence much finer and more denfe in general, and 
Bi Ads eal Linn. Sp. Pl 
niariz foltis et facie, perampla radice Aftragaliti; Lob. 
Ic. v. 2. 85. Ger. em. 1594.)—Stem fhrubby, downy. 
, Leaves obovate, flethy, keeled, i 
ringed with long. hairs, 
Spain by Leefling.—Very curious for the thick woody ftem 
The minute, thick, cluftered leaves 
_form, as it were, little balls, and are for the mott 
_ {mooth, or nearly fo, but are accompanied by fuch v 
_white, deeply-fringed ftipulas, that each tuft has 
ance of bei iry. Th 
but Linnzus defcribes them four-cleft. 
nilles agrees, with the Linnzan {pecimen, which removes his 
and he has unqueftionably done right in removing 
he flowers are extremely minute at the 
_tops of the branches and from the bofoms of the upper 
retica, to which the fynonym 
he quotes of Buxbaum, Cent. 1. t. 28. belongs; but. the 
_Polygonum maritimum longius radicatum noftras, of Dillenius 
in Ray's Synopfis, 161. Pluk. t. 53. f. 3, figured alfo in 
Petiver’s Englith Plants, t. rv. f. 6, is mot unquettionably 
only Glaux maritima, as-indicated under Herniaria glabra, 
HH. Brit. 272. . | 
HH, lenticulata, therefore, may be prefumed an n-entity. 
onum minus lentifolium, Bauh. Prod. 131. may be 
. to have fuggeited to Linnzus the {pecific name 
we do not recolleé& that 
= 
we have ever had an opportunity of 
SHERMCK, in fact Gaprapy a5 
.. HERNICI, in Ancient aphy, a people of Italy, of 
siieyaieaeer Sa, ek people. ys 0 
The whole is fometimes a foot wide, but . 
The obovate fhape of, 
Stems clothed with recurved hairs.”,"—Found. 
-in honour. of the manes ‘ : 
.The Romans alfo raifed ftatues.in honour of their heroes 5 
but there were fix of their nie 
who were fuppofed to be admitted into the community 
the twelve | 
ee eae Cone ves y inhabited the . 
ae which extended themfelves from thofe of Prenefte 
HER 
HERNOSAND, or HeERNospnp, in Geography, a fea 
port town of Sweden, in the province of ngermania, built 
in 1584 by John III. onan ifland in the gulf of Bothnia, 
feparated from the continent by a narrow channel, over which 
was thrown a bridge. On the N. fide of the harbour, tke 
water is of fufficient depth for the largeft veffels to unload 
at the warehoufes. Hernofand was formerly a ftaple towr, 
and flill carries on a confiderable trade, particularly in liner. 
N. lat. 62° 38’. E.long. 17°43. _ 
HERNSHAW, or Hernary, a place where herons 
reed. 
Greek. new: femideus, demi-god. St. Auguftine, De Civit. 
ib. x. obferves, that it is highly probable, that fome 
ne of Juno’s fons. was originally called by this name ; that 
goddefs being called in Greek ‘Hen; or it may bey that 
great men were diftinguifhed by this appellation; in allufion 
ta the opinion of the ancients, that virtuous perfons, after 
. their deaths, inhabit the wide expanfe of the air, which ia 
Juno’s province. Ifidore inclines to think, that heroes were 
thus called guafi aeroes, aerei, perfons of fuperior merit and 
worthy of heaven. ato derives the word from the G 
nd . coc, love + as.intimating the heroes to have rifen from the 
_ copulation of a god with a mortal woman ; or of a goddels 
haman. Others derive the name from the Greek sigeis 
wi 
» dicere, to {peak 3 the heroes being perfons who, by their eles 
- quence, led the people at their pleafure.. Others, laflly, 
owers we have not examined, derive i 
fj - 
erive it from the Greek «a, terra, earth ; the her 
their principle, being the dii terreffres, or gods of the earth. 
were, properly, perions partly of divine, and 
eroes M 
- partly of human extraétion ; being produced between the 
deity and a mortal ; as Achilles,. who was the fon of of 
. goddefs Thetis, by Peleus ; and Hercules, who was the 
of Jupiter, by Alcmena. 
A 
hero, then, coincides with what we otherwife call 
-a demi-god ; accordingly, Lucian. defines a hero to be @ me 
dium between a god and a man ;-or rather, a compolition 
both, be 
The Greeks ere&ted columns and other monuments ae 
the tombs of their heroes, and eftablifhed a kind of worfhip 
both of their heroes and, heroines. 
heroes of a fuperior order, at 
ds ; thef Hercules, Bacchus, 
go S$ cic were \ F cites have 
ed between the worthip which the ancients paid to 
is faid, confifted of facrifices and libations; the former 
l 
exploits, concluding the rehearfal with feafts. : eg 
Hero is alfo ated in a more extenfive fenfe, for a gets 
illuftrious, and_ extraordinary _particular'y 
perfonag is Sa 
Tefpeét of valour, courage, intrepidity, and other ee 
virtues. wee a 5 
F. Bohours makes this diftinétion 
f funeral honour, in which they celebrated their 
