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Ei)C STrcatfurp nf iSotang, 



celled two-seeded drupes, as large as a 

 good-sized pea. The seeds beinar destitute 

 of albumen, and not surrounded by an aril, 

 are the distinguishing characters. John 

 Hartog, whose name is commemorated in 

 this genus, was an early Dutch traveller in 

 South Africa and Ceylon. [A. A. B.] 



HART'SBALLS. ElapJwmyces. 

 HARTSHORN. Plantago Coronopus. 



HART'STONGUE. Scolopendrium ; also 

 Olfersia cervina. 



HARTWEGIA purpurea. An epiphytal 

 orchid of Mexico and Guatemala, with a 

 short stem bearing a single lance-shaped 

 leaf covered with brownish spots, and an 

 erect wiry flower-scape a foot in length, 

 with a few small bright pink flowers at the 

 apex. It is closely related to Epidendrum ; 

 and is named after Mr. Theodor Hartweg, 

 once collector in South America for the 

 Royal Horticultural Society. [A. A. B.] 



HARTWORT. Tordylium. 



HARVEST-BELLS. Gentiana Pneumon- 

 anthe. 



HARYEYA capensis is an erect simple 

 herb, a parasite on the roots of heaths at 

 the Cape of Good Hope; and constitutes a 

 genus of Scrophulariacece of the tribe Ge- 

 rardiece. It is nearly allied to Avlaya, and, 

 like that genus, has four didynamous sta- 

 mens, all bearing anthers, with one fertile 

 ovate awned cell, and the other cell long 

 and subulate but empty ; it differs chiefly 

 in its large inflated herbaceous calyx. 



HASHISH. The Arabian name of the 

 narcotic Cannabis sativa. 



HASKWORT. Campanula lati/olia. 



HASSAGAY TREE. Curtisia faginea. 



HASSELQTJISTIA. A genus of urnbelli- 

 fers distinguished by the petals of the 

 central flowers being inversely ovate and 

 slightly notched at the end, those in the 

 circumference of the umbel spreading and 

 two-cleft; by half of each fruit produced 

 by the central flowers being abortive, the 

 other partly folded round it; and by the 

 fruits at the outer part of the umbel being 

 flat with a thick winged border, slightly 

 wrinkled. The genus was named by Lin- 

 nagus in honour of Hasselquist, a well- 

 known Eastern traveller. The species are 

 annual herbs, natives of Syria, and have 

 the stems hairy. [G. D.] 



HASSKARLIA. The name of a genus 

 of Indian and Javanese Pandanacece. The 

 fruits consist of three to five or rarely 

 more ovaries united together, each one- 

 seeded, the seeds being like those of the 

 allied genus Freycinetia. [M. T. MJ 



HASTATE. Shaped like the head of a 

 halbert. 



HATHER. The common Heath or 

 Heather. 



HAUSTORIUM. A small root which HEATHER. Cdllunavulgaris. 

 attaches itself to the surface of some other LAYAN. Andromeda fastigiata. 



plant, and lives by sucking it. A sucker, 

 as in dodder, ivy, &c. 



HAUTBOIS. A kind of Strawberry, 

 Fragaria elatior. 



HAUTBOIS. (Fr.) Sambucus nigra. 



HAVER. The Wild Oat, Avena fatua. 



HAW. The fruit of the hawthorn, Cra- 

 taegus Oxyacantha. — , BLACK. Viburnum 

 prunifolium. 



HAWKBIT. Apargia ; also Eieracium. 



HAWKNUT. Bunium flexuosum. 



HAWK'SBEARD. Crepis. 



HAWKWEED. Hieracium. 



HAWORTHIA. One of the subdivisions 

 of the genus Aloe, consisting of small 

 curious-looking and extremely interesting 

 succulent herbs of South Africa, distin- 

 guished by having erect flowers, the peri- 

 anth with a straight tube and two-lipped 

 limb, the stamens adherent to the base of 

 the perianth, and the capsule ribbed. Some 

 of the species are remarkable for the trans- 

 lucent substance of their leaves, or for 

 their elegant reticulated markings. [T. M.] 



HAWTHORN. Crataegus Oxyacantha. 

 — , INDIAN. Ehaphiolepis. 



H AYLOCKIA. One of the hippeastrif orm 

 Amaryllidacece referred to a separate genus. 

 It is a small bulb, with hiemal very narrow 

 linear leaves, and autumnal one T flowered 

 concealed scapes bearing a solitary white 

 flower stained with purple. This has a cy- 

 lindrical tube enlarged at the mouth, and a 

 regular limb, funnel-shaped below and par- 

 tially spreading above ; the filaments of al- 

 ternate lengths, conniving, the sepaline 

 inserted at the base of the limb, the peta- 

 line higher ; and the style erect, with a 

 three-cleft stigma. It is allied to Zephy- 

 ranthus, and is found in Uruguay. [T. M.] 



HAYMAIDS. Glechoma. 



' HAZEL. Corylus Avellana. — , WITCH. 

 Hamamelis. 



HAZELWORT. Asarum europceum. 



HE AD- ACHE TREE. Premna integrifolia. 



HEART, FLOATING. An American 

 name for Limnanthemum. 



HEART'S-EASE. Viola tricolor. 



HEART-SEED. Cardiospermum. 



HEART-SHAPED. The same as Cordate. 



HEART-WOOD. The central part of 

 the timber of Exogens, hardened or altered 

 by age. 



HEATH. Erica. — , BERRIED. Em- 

 petrum. — , IRISH. Menziesia (or Dabce.- 

 cia) polifolia. — , MOOR. Gypsocallis. — , 

 ST. DABEOC'S. Menziesia polifolia. — , SEA. 

 Frankenia. 



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