crepitans. 



areen state violently purgative, but when • Murchison rivers on the western coast of 

 drv, according to Lunan, they lose this Australia, The flowers have five egg- 



| shaped sepals, five roundish petals with 

 their bases contracted into short claws, 

 and stamens arranged in two series with 

 their bases united, the inner consisting of 

 two broad ones, and the outer of ten, 

 seven only of which bear anthers. They 

 have two single-celled free ovaries crowned 

 by thread-like styles. [A. S.] 



HYACINTH. Hyacinthus. — of Peru. 



Scilla peruviana. — , CAPE. Scilla co- 

 rymhosa, and brachyphylla. — , FEA- 

 THERED. Muscari comosum monstromm. ! 

 — , GRAPE. Muscari. — , LILY. Scilla ; 

 Lilio-Hyacinthus. — , MISSOURI. Hespe- | 

 roscordum. — , SPANISH. Hyacinthus ante- j 

 thystinus. —, STARCH. Muscari racemo- j 

 sum. — , TASSEL. Muscari comosum. — , , 



WILD. Hyacinthus non scriptus. , of | 



America. Scilla esculenta. — , STAR. 

 Scilla amcena. 



HYACINTHORCHIS variabilis. The 

 name of a pretty terrestrial Japanese 

 orchid, having one or two lance-shaped 

 ribbed radical leaves afoot in length, and 

 a flower scape exceeding the leaves and I 

 bearing a number of narrow-petaled pink ' 

 blossoms, each about an inch long. This 

 seems almost identical with the Cremastra 

 Wallichiana of the Himalaya. [A. A. BJ 



HYACINTHUS. A well-known genus of 

 very handsome liliaceous bulbs, of which 

 large numbers of garden varieties are 

 grown in Holland for exportation. The 

 original of the common Hyacinth, H. orien- 

 talis, is a native of the East about Aleppo, 

 Bagdad, &c.,and is a stout bulb with fleshy 

 linear oblong leaves, and a loose spike of 

 drooping flowers, of which the perianth is 

 bell-shaped with a six-parted regular limb 

 of oblong nearly equal recurved segments, 

 and encloses six equal stamens, and a sub- 

 globose three-celled ovary, crowned by a 

 short erect style, and a three-cornered 

 obtuse stigma. From this the various- 

 coloured, full-spiked single and double 

 varieties of the garden Hyacinth have been 

 produced. A smaller flowered species, H. 

 amethystinus, found in the south of Europe, 

 has the flowers of a bright blue, and is 

 exceedingly pretty. [T. MJ 



HYiENA POISON. Hyamanche capensis. 



HY^ENANCHE. A genus of Euphorbia- 

 ceoe, containing only one species, B. capen- 

 sis, a native of the Cape of Good Hope, where 

 it is called Wolveboon by the Dutch and 

 Hysena-poison by theEnglish. It is a tree- 

 like shrub, with smooth, leathery leaves 

 arranged in whorls, and the small flowers 

 of separate sexes on the same plant. This 

 shrub has acquired the name of Hyasna- 

 poison bush from its fruits, which are ex- 

 ceedingly poisonous, being used to destroy 

 those animals, the powder being sprinkled 

 upon raw flesh, which is left in places fre- 

 quented by them. Dr. Pappe supposes it to 

 contain strychnine. [A. S.] 



HYA HYA. Taberncemontana utilis, one 



property. An oil is extracted from them 

 and sometimes used as a purgative, about 

 twenty drops of it being equal in action to 

 a table-spoonful of castor-oil, and less nau- 

 seous. A venomous milky juice is abun- 

 dant in all parts of the plant, and if it be 

 applied to the eye causes almost immediate 

 blindness. The wood is extremely brittle, 

 and the hollowed trunks are said to be 

 used in the West Indies as vats for con- 

 taining cane juice. [A. A. B.] 



HURDA, HURRAH, or HURITUKEE. 

 Indian names for the Myrobalans, Termi- 

 nalia Chebula, and citrina. 



HUREEK. An Indian name for Paspa- 

 lum scrobiculatum. 



HURRBURR. Arctium Lappa. 



HURRY ALEE. Cynodon Dactylon. 



HURSINGHOR. An Indian name for 

 the flowers of Nyctanthes arbor-tristis. 



HURSTBEECH. Carpinus Betulus. 



HURTLEBERRY. Yaccinium Myrtillus. 



HURTSICKLE. Centaurea Cyanus. 



HUSSEIA. A curious genus of puff- 

 balls, named after the late Mrs. Hussey, 

 distinguished by a cylindrical stem, sup- 

 porting a globose peridiuin with a plicate 

 terminal mouth, clothed with a gelatinous 

 veil, which ultimately is turned back from 

 the pileus and top of the stem. The only 

 species grows on the naked soil, and has 

 hitherto been found nowhere except in 

 Ceylon. [M. J. B.] 



HUTCHINSIA. A genus of Cruciferce, 

 allied to Lepidium, but differing in having 

 two seeds in each cell of the pouch, which 

 is elliptical, with compound keeled valves 

 without any ring or notch at the summit. 

 They are small annuals with pinnately 

 parted leaves, and small white flowers. 

 One species, H. petraa, occurs in the 

 western part of England. [J. T. S.] 



HUTTIA conspicua, a small rush-line 

 plant with numerous branches, but with- 

 out leaves, or with the leaves reduced to 

 very minute scales, is the only species of 

 this genus of Billeniacece ; a native of the 

 sandy plains lying between the Hutt and 



