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poetry and moral inftructions of Hefiod, that wes ordered 
their children to commit them to mem mory. ‘ hod was 
murdered by the fons of Ganydtor of Makcivnen, and his: 
body thrown into the fea. The beft editions of Hefiod are 
thofe of Amfterdam, 1667 and ae ; of Oxford, 1737, and 
of Leipfic 1746,1778. Moreri.. Lemprier 
HESIVON, in Geography, a ‘town of Egypt ; ; 22 miles 
S.S.W. of Cairo. 
HESN, a town of Afiatic oer » In the province of 
Diarbekir ; 40 miles W. of Tec 
Hesn-Dharie, a town of Arabi in the province of 
Nedsjed; 140 miles E N.E. of M 
Hesn-Keifa, a town of A fiatic Turkey in the Province. 
of Diarbekir ; 30 miles E.S.E. of cir. 
EsN-Mohdi, a town of Perfia, in oe province of Chufif- 
tan, at the mouth of the Euphrates; 55 miles E. of Baf- 
ra 
Hesn-Ratrik, a town of Afiatic ss in the govern- 
ment of Marafch ; 25 miles N. of Ma! 
Hesn-7chelebi, atown of Afiatic Turkey, i in the govern- 
ment of Sivas ; 40 miles S. of Sivas, 
N L-MAI, a {mall iand and a of Egypt, in 
_ the lake of Tennis; 25 mile s N.W. of Tine 
HESPER, Hesperus, in Aiken omy, 
evening flar ; 
an appellation given to Venus when fhe fallniea, or fe! 
the fun 
ts after 
The. word -is formed of the Greek ‘Eowspor, and is fup- 
pofed to: have been originally the roper name of a 
man, 
eee of Atlas, and father or grandfather of the Hefperi- 
Dielos, lib. wi. relates, that Hefperus, diftinguithed . by 
his piety, jullice, and gene: rofity, having afcended to the top 
Q Atlas, the better to obferve and contemplate the 
rs, was carried away by an impetuous wind, and never 
returned more ; and 
UHESPERA into as ftar. 
RANTHA, in sip taes 
r, from e: smepoy F, 
Seca te — 
fo named hi Mr. Ker, 
er. 
ers pita at Se dole «9 — and — up 
ges contrary to the ufual habits of the 
easy 3. and this they 
urt. Mon: Ve 
Clafs and — 
Linn, 
Gen. 
of two oblong, ribbed, herbace 
outermoft larger, enfoldin the. inner one, one petal, 
fuperior ; tube cyli a flightly fwelling I longer 
than the calyx; limb regular, in fix deep, elliptic-oblong, 
= widely {preading or reflexed fepments, the three outer 
coloured at the b back. hree, in- 
thorter than the limb, 
: Kew. 
2 riandria 6 onogynt, 
Lrides, Jufl.. 
ote Ord. eos 
ous, Sees eens ; the 
as the its; vertical, 
, pe eT A ob{curely triangular; 
Ryle — erelh; Geers three, fj 
- the flame a eas geese ae 
Peric. Cape abloaginbs 
pa of three numerous, 
- sm of two oom 
limb ec mn fix deep, equal, fegments 
three, linear, feparate ta the mouth of the tube. 
eblong, triangular. 
‘The fpecies of this genus, of which Mr. 
nals of Botany, enumerates fix, were previa: 
Corolla Seiryete its 
Stigmas 
- Capfule 
Keryi in the An- 
wy referred. to 
at hence he was fabled to have been - 
Cal. Spatha rant fhorter than the corolla,. 
iat angular and rugged, and often 
HE'S 
Ixia, and we {earcely think that they ought to be removed’ 
from thence. The chief difference, in the technical charatter, 
ob 
we sa for the fatisfa@ion of our readers, indicate the 
fpeci 
ae aes - (Ixia virginea of the Bankfian herbarium.) 
OF this Mr. ae §ves us no charaéter nor defcription, nor is 
oe figure quoted. 
- radiata. Curt. Mag. t. 573 and 790. 
yor Tra- 
deus, Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 280. _ I. iiftulofa ; And 
April to June. The 
comprefied upwards, fhort, 
a foot or more in height, fimple. 
ng ebripal about five or fix, cream-coleur-? 
or pale blufh-coloured, within ; ; flriped with. 
purple or brown without. The plates above cited indicate 
everal varieties of colour. The fcent of the flowers, when 
open at night, is fpicy, like that of a pink. 
- falcata. (Ixia fi —_ - Linn. Suppl. 92. Curt. 
Mag. t. 566. Jacq. Ic. . cinnamomea ; Andr. 
Repof. t. 44.)—Radical se ficklethaved, flat. Segments 
of a. rolla concave. Theelegant foqers are pure white, 
except the backs of the three outer feements, which are of: 
an uniform red-brown = with yellow. Jac cquin repre- 
fents them erimfon at. the back. Their fell is like cin- 
namon, ‘and they are faid = open exactly at four o *clock in’ 
the sticamie., “ the Cape, unlefs rain is at hand, in which’ 
cafe they remain clofed. Mr. Mafion fent this fpecies to Kew* 
in 1787. 
mnamomea. Curt. Mag. t. rogq. (Ixia 
namomea ; “Linn Suppl. 92. Thunb. Diff. de Ixia. ed : 
tes. fog J—Radical sesh fickle-fhaped, waved and crifped. 
~—Smaller than the laft, with curioufly undulated eaves. 
outlide of the fowers is — their feent is comparedy. 
by Mr. Ker, to oil of cloves. 
5- Hi. angufa. (Ixia angufta; Willd. Sp. Pl. Ve T. 20304, 
Jacq. Ic. as se Sie ee . L. radiata, 
- angufta ; Curt Mag. v. 16. see ete linear, 
{fmooth, flat. Stem zig- zag. Flowers erect. 
this only by the above spec se The herbage is drawn 
rather laucous. lowers gre white 
ae a pilofa. (Ixia pilela ¢ Srey Diff. de Ixia. 8.)— 
owers 
lieaics Sa hairy. s rather drooping. —Gathe 
by Thunberg on hillocks — the Cape town.. The /fem 
is three or four inches high. Leaves hairy, not half fo tall.— 
—- white within, reddith without, pe at lecwris in 
alternoon, 
HESPERIA, in Entomolgy, a Fabrician genus of the 
Papiliones, in which the feelers are comprefied and hairy at 
the bafe;: the tip oe aad naked ; and-the club. vane 3 
nake newly inftituted genus correfpon 
the Linnza: abies of Papilio, PéeJeii, and —_ 
chi family is. skied into two feétions, ruralesand uri os 
me Tey are the {malleft of the buttery tribe. See 
API. 
"HESPERIDES, sacaneiades in the Ancient Mythologys 
were the sa as fome aa or rather the grand- 
ters of Hefper, or Hefperus the- brother ee Atlas. 
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