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HONESTY. Lunaria biennis. 



HONEWORT. Sison Amomum; also 

 Trinia vulgaris, and Cryptotcenia cana- 

 densis. 



HONEYBERRY. The name in modern 

 Greece of the berries of Gellis australis ; 

 also Melicocca bijuga. 



HONEYDEW. A sugary secretion from 

 the leaves of plants in hot weather, usually 

 attributed to aphides, because they se- 

 crete a similar matter. When the secre- 

 tion is extreme, as is sometimes the case 

 in unusual heat, it drips from the leaves 

 in little drops, which are sometimes so 

 abundant that they may be swept up in 

 considerable quantities. The secretion is 

 then called Manna, though it is not in- 

 tended by the term to identify it with 

 the manna of the ash. The affection is 

 ranked in vegetable pathology under the 

 genus Apostaxis, and is generally harm- 

 less. [M. J. B.] 



HONEY-FLOWER, or HONEY-PLANT. 



Melianthus. 



HONEYSUCKLE. Lonicera ; also ap- 

 plied amongst agriculturists to meadow 

 clover, Trifolium pratense. — of Australia. 

 Banksia serrata. —of Jamaica. Passiflora 

 Unn-i folia. — , BUSH. Biervilla. — , 

 DWARF. Cornussuecica. — , FLY. Hal- 

 leria; also Lonicera Xylosteum. — , 

 FRENCH. Hedysarum coronarium. — , 

 HEATH. Banksia serrata. — , WHITE 

 Azalea, viscosa. 



HONEYSUCKLE TREE. Banksia aus- 

 tralis. 



HONEYWARE. Alaria esculenta; also 

 Laminaria saccharina. 



HOXEYWORT. Cerinthe. 



HONGHEL-BUSH. Adenium Honghel. 



HONKENYA, or HONKENEJA. A genus 

 of Caryophyllacece, allied to Alsine, but dis- 

 tinguished by its few large pear-shaped 

 seeds, beaked at the end and having an in- 

 dentation on the opposite side. They are 

 all littoral plants found in the northern 

 hemisphere, in the temperate and arctic 

 zones. H. peploides is very common on the 

 shores of the British Islands, its rhizome 

 creeping in the sand, and throwing up nu- 

 merous low stems with fleshy leaves and 

 small white flowers. [J. T. S.] 



HOODED. The same as Cucullate. 



HOODIA. A remarkable genus of Ascle- 

 piadacece, containing two branching South 

 African herbs, with fleshy many-angled 

 cactus-like stems, thickly covered at the 

 angles with strong prickles, which are 

 dilated at the base. The flowers have a 

 very large corolla, and are on short pedun- 

 cles near the apex of the stem : the calyx 

 five-parted ; the corolla rotate with a very 

 short tube and a large dilated faintly 

 flve-lobed limb, each lobe terminating in 

 an aristate tooth. The staminal crown is 

 double, the outer whorl consisting of five 

 deeply emarginate lobes, with the margins 



incurved, the inner of five alternating 

 leaflets bent downwards. [W. CJ 



HOOKED-BACK. Curved in a direction 

 from the apex to the base; as the side 

 lobes of the leaf of the dandelion. 



HOOKERIEI. A natural order of mosses, 

 distinguished by the flat creeping irregu- 

 larly-branched stems, with reticulated 

 leaves, a cernuous succulent capsule on a 

 succulent elongated footstalk, a campanu- 

 late smooth veil and double peristome. 

 Hookeria lucens is one of our most beauti- 

 ful mosses, and remarkable for its large 

 pale shining loosely reticulated leave's. 

 It is not uncommon in Devonshire. Most 

 of the species are extra-European, and in- 

 habitants of warm regions. A few have 

 not flattened stems, and two or three 

 species included in the Antarctic Flora 

 have erect capsules, but these are dis- 

 tinguished from Leucoclontei by their mi- 

 trseform veil. Occasionally the base of the 

 veil is laciniate, as in the Irish H. Icetevi- 

 rens. [M. J. BJ 



HOOKHEAL. Prunella vulgaris. 



HOOP-PETTICOAT. Corbularia. 



HOP. Humulus Lupidus. — , WILD. 

 Bryonia dioica. 



HOPEA. A genus of Dipterocarpacece, 

 consisting of resin-bearing trees natives 

 of Borneo, whose flowers differ from those 

 of Shorea only in the number and disposi- 

 tion of the stamens. [M. T. M J 



HOPKIRKIA. A genus of Composite, 

 peculiar to Mexico, represented by a single 

 species, H. anthemoidea, a smooth branch- 

 ing herb, with pinnately-parted leaves, and 

 small terminal flower-heads with yellow 

 florets. The involucre consists of four 

 or five obovate scales, and encloses three 

 tubular four or five-toothed florets, whose 

 silky achenes are crowned with a pappus 

 of eight chaffy one-nerved scales, three- 

 toothed at top, the nerve prolonged into an 

 awn. [A. A. B.] 



HOPPIA. A small genus of Brazilian 

 cyperaceous plants, belonging to the tribe 

 Curie hue. The inflorescence is in heads 

 which are composed of compound imbri- 

 cated spikes. [D. MJ 



HORANINOYIA. A genus of Chenopo- 

 diaceai closely allied to Salsola, but differ- 

 ing in habit, and in the perianth being 

 longer than the filaments, in the segments 

 having a smaller wing not produced till 

 much later, after flowering, and in the 

 minute styles looking like a simple stigma. 

 They are rough annual herbs of temperate 

 Asia, [J. T. SJ 



HORARIOUS. Enduring for an hour or 

 two only ; as the petals of Cistus. 



HORDEUM. The Barley: one of the 

 most valuable of the genera of grasses 

 ( Graminacem). As a corn plant, Barley isper- 

 haps one of the most early cultivated, and 

 its different varieties can be grown under 

 a wider range of climatal differences than 



