8 E-T 
Vahl. —Loeaves cordate-oval, very 
iinos. Spatha oblong, very obtufe, about three-flowered. 
—Found in South America by Von Rohr.—Stem a fpan 
high. Taco rifing above it, fearcely more than half an 
inch in length, on long ftalks. 
n Jamaica, 
Hifpaniola, and the country of the Llinoisin Canad, flower- 
ing in Augult. Stems feveral, very fhort, each bearing only 
one or two — {mooth, erect aves, on long, thick, fif- 
tulous ftalks, from whofe lower part {prings a fhort flower- 
alk, with a fingle-flowered, oblong, pointed /patha. 
Dy 
ee) 
be 
sy 
eolla blue. Stigmas ‘fix, menictass to Swartz, which is 
remarkable, and requires examin 
6.H erfifolia, Vahl. n. <a keel partly ovate, in- 
elining to heart-fhaped, ftalked ; partly boca and feffile.— 
Gathered by M. Richard in Guiana. Stem flender, branched. 
Lower /eaves linear, acute, wavy, probably immerfed ; the 
upper apparently floating, thicker than the former. Foot- 
_— roundifh. Spatha faid by Richard to confift of two 
valves, 
7. H. graminea. Vahl. n. 7. (Leptanthus gramineus ; Mi- 
chaux v. 1. 25. t. 5. £. 2.) — aN the leaves linear.—Gathered 
by Ric in the river Ohio. This has the afpect of Potamo- 
geton gramineum. § er, throwing out roots from the 
quan - Leaves alternate fheathing, feffile, two inches long. 
axillary, fingle-flowered. Tube of the 
ee much ger than hie leaves. Stamens fometimes 
pire, “whereo re were two 
Sees 3 ‘ik ete “called fimply heteriarch ; and ce other, 
great — who had the direction of the form 
T is Greek trasgxeya, formed of eet Greek 
ieango:, veo companion, ‘ally, and apxrs es command. 
was to command the troops of the 
allies 5 befides a oe ny had fome other duties in the em- 
— Abeecempes De Officiis, cap. ¥: 
Natural Hit. 
; eg ne seine in on a em are: ad 
; Bets and Repaid of ten deste‘ es two firft of w 
pre - 
very larg their 
aiaion at the outer edge a kind of fi wae bay a extreme joint © 
obtnfe ; the head is advanced and elongated, ana the jaws, 
which are exferted, are denticulated at the 
is convex and attenuated in front ; the ise ovate. 
o the Dermeftes, 
— ‘which. genus Thashey refers the. fpeties defcribed by 
of marginatus. Fabricius, in his man 
— 
tip; the thorax figu 
fo 
another, and the parts of 
THEE Tt 
tiffay places i it in the genus Apate. Marfham adopts the ge-” 
neric name afligned by Bofe. The habits of the heterocerus 
table fubftances, and on the multiplicity of animalcule that 
occur in fuch fituations. There are four joints in the tarfi of 
the legs. 
Species. 
Marernatus. Downy, — — and dots on 
the wing-cafes ferruginous. eterocerus marginatus, Bofc. 
a feneftratus, ‘Thunb. pions marginatus, Marth, 
Ent 
aie foocien according to Ol; ivier, is not rare in the 
marfhes of the foreft of Bondy, in France. It has been 
alfo taken in abundance, near Sheernefs, in the month 
of September. Its length is about two lines and a 
half. 
HETEROCLITE, Hererocurron, in Grammar, an 
irre gular, or anomalous word, which either in declenfion, con- 
jugation, or regimen, deviates from the ordinary rules of 
mmar. 
word is Greek soe formed of itegocy alter, an- 
other, a es and xAsvo'y ine. 
oclite is more peculiarly spel to Benn; which 
ay or are irregular, in point of declenfion ;_ havin: 
bers, &c. oes ordinary ; or t 
of one declenfion in one number, and another in an- 
other. 
ve various forts of rind nie as defective 
dundant heteroclites, &c. Under the clafs of ews ts=9 come 
Sa EN a monoptotes, triptotes, tetraptotes, pentap- 
totes, & 
HETERODOX, formed of the Greek iregodogor, a € 
pound of frepoc, alter, and doa, opinion, in Palemical Teoloeys 
fomething _— is contrary to the faith or doétrine eftablifhed 
in the true c us, we fay, a heterodox opinion, a 
heterodox pes ‘&e: 
The word ftands in oppofition to orthodox. 
Hereropox, Heterodoxi, in Botany, | ‘that fet of fyftema- 
tical writers on this fcience, who formed their diftributions 
and claffes of the plants on wrong foundations, not on the di- 
vifions rade by nature in the different ftruture of the parts 
of fructification i in the different claffes, but on the fhape of 
their leaves, or roots ; or ranged them by their com- 
mon names, according to the er: of the alphabet. Lin- 
nzi. Fund. Bot. p. 2. See Boran 
HETERODROMUS Vacate | in Mechanics, a lever 
wherein the fulcrum, or point of fufpenfion, is between the 
weight and the power. This is what we otherwife call a dever 
of the fe rft kind. See Lever. 
This term - ufed by way of contradiftinétion to the 
homadromus 
TET EROGENEITY, in Phyfes, the sea or dif- 
politign which denominates a thing heterogene 
The word is alfo ufed for the jetrogentoos. Fa parts them- 
felves. In which fenfe, the ag ah arp rbed of a body are the 
fame things with the impurities t 
ones : a erik ofa very lax fignification : but, 
fo far as the term diftin 
e shat hake of eto a peepee - heterogeneous to one 
me fortment are homoge- 
neous. 
Tdi ty we we ih 
