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LINE. Hyoscyamus niger. — DE SAINTE 

 BARBE.^ Barbarea vulgaris. — DE 

 SAINT ETIENNE. Circcea Lutetiana. — 

 DE SAINT FIACRE. Heliotr opium euro- 

 pceum. — DE SAINT INNOCENT. Poly- 

 gonum Hydropiper. — DE SAINT JO- 

 SEPH. Scabiosa succisa. — DE SAINT 

 ROCHE. Inula dysenterica. — DES 

 PEMMES BATTUES. Bryonia dioica. — 

 DES MAGICIENS. Datura Stramonium. 



— DU BON HENRI. Blitum Bonus Henri- 

 cus. — DU CARDINAL. Si/mphutiun 

 officinale. — DU DIABLE. Datura Stra- 

 monium, and Plumbago scandens. — DU 

 GRAND-PRIEUR. Nicotiana Tabacum. — 

 DU SIEGE. Scrophularia aquatica. — DU 

 VENT., Anemone Pulsatilla. — EMPOI- 

 SONNEE. Atropa Belladonna. — MAURE. 

 Reseda odorata. — MORE. Solanum ni- 

 grum. — MUSQUEE. Adoxa Moschatellina. 

 — -SACR^E. Melittis Melissophyllum, Ni- 

 cotiana Tabacum, and Verbena officinalis. 



— ST. CHRISTOPHE. Actcea spicata. — 

 ST. PIERRE. Crithmum maritimum. — 

 SANS COUTURE. Ophioglossumvulgatum. 



HERBERTIA. A genus of dwarf bul- 

 bous iridaceous perennials from Texas 

 and Chili, one species found in Brazil. 

 They have narrow acute radical leaves, and 

 a short scape bearing at top several pretty 

 blue or yellow flowers, which have a short- 

 tubed six-parted perianth, with the outer 

 segments triangular, acute, and reflexed, 

 and the shorter inner ones rounded and 

 erect, three monadelphous stamens in- 

 serted at the base of the exterior seg- 

 ments, and a three-celled ovary, crowned 

 with three trifid stigmas having recurved 

 petaloid branches. The genus, which is 

 allied to Cypella and Iris, is named in 

 honour of the late Dean of Manchester, 

 who was a high authority on all matters 

 relating to bulbous plants. [T. M.j 



HERCULES' CLUB. Xanthoxylon Cla- 

 va Herculis. 



HERISSONNE. (Fr.) Erinaceapungens. 



HERITIERA. A genus of Sterculiacece, 

 containing two trees of considerable mag- 

 nitude, found on the coasts of India, Africa, 

 and many islands of the eastern hemi- 

 sphere; in a cultivated state only in the 

 West Indies. They are pyramidal trees 

 with large handsome stalked entire alter- 

 nate leaves of a silvery white underneath, 

 this silvery appearance giving rise to the 

 name of ' Looking-glass tree,' sometimes 

 applied to them. The blades in H. macro- 

 phylla are eight to fourteen inches long by 

 four to six broad. The fine foliage and 

 symmetrical habit of this species render it 

 a beautiful object in a plant stove where 

 it has space to grow. The minute reddish- 

 coloured unisexual flowers are disposed in 

 terminal panicles ; they have a five-lobed or 

 toothed calyx : the sterile with five sessile 

 anthers united into a tube, and the fertile 

 with five sessile ovaries which become, 

 when ripe, hard nearly boat-shaped carpels. 

 They usually ripen but one seed, and do 



not open when ripe, in this respect dif- 

 fering from Sterculia, as well as in their 

 less numerous stamens. C. L. L'Heritier, 

 whose name is here perpetuated, was a dis- 

 tinguished French botanist. [A. A. B.] 



HERMANNIE^E. A section of the order 

 Byttneriacece, distinguished by the follow- 

 ing characters : —Petals flat ; stamens mo- 

 nadelphous at the base, equal to the petals 

 in number and opposite to them, all fertile ; 

 ovary one or many-celled, with two or 

 many ovules in each cell. They are herbs 

 or shrubs found in intertropical regions, 

 but most abundant at the Cape of Good 

 Hope. The group includes the genera 

 Waltheria, Meloch.ia, Biedlea, Physodium, 

 Hermannia, and Mahernia : see Byttne- 

 riace^;. [J. H. B.] 



HERMANNIA. An extensive genus of 

 Byttneriacece, including about eighty spe- 

 cies. The chief features of the genus are :— 

 A bell-shaped five-cleft calyx ; five clawed 

 petals, the claws hollowed ; five stamens, 

 with their filaments flattened, but not 

 dilated above the middle in the form of 

 a + as in Mahernia ; and a five-celled ovary, 

 which, when ripe, is a five-angled capsule 

 with many seeds. The species are twiggy 

 undershrubs, having the stems and leaves, 

 especially the latter, which are often ac- 

 companied with leaf-like stipules, more or 

 less clothed with starry hairs. The pretty 

 nodding sometimes sweet-scented flowers 

 are pale yellow, orange, or reddish-colour- 

 ed, disposed in dense clusters or loose 

 racemes or panicles at the ends of the 

 twigs. The genus bears the name of Paul 

 Hermann, once professor of botany at 

 Leyden. [A. A. B.] 



HERMAPHRODITE. Containing both 

 stamens and pistil. 



HERMAS. A genus of umbellifers, cha- 

 racterised by the calyx having a five-parted 

 persistent border ; and the fruit ovate, 

 each half with five ribs, the middle one 

 prominent, those on each side of it larger, 

 the other two smaller. The species are 

 small Cape herbs, with soft downy undi- 

 vided leaves. The outer flowers of the um- 

 bels have stamens only, the others have 

 both stamens and pistil. [G. DJ 



HERMINTERA. A genus of tropical 

 African trees, of the leguminous family, 

 having thorny branches, abruptly pinnate 

 leaves, and large orange-coloured flowers, 

 succeeded by linear oblong compressed 

 legumes, which become at length spirally 

 twisted. The wood of H. elaphroxylon, the 

 only species, is very white, remarkably 

 soft, having the appearance of a mass of 

 pith, with the medullary rays and annual 

 rings almost imperceptible. The natives 

 apply it to various uses. [T. M.] 



HERMINIUM. A genus of terrestrial 

 orchids, with small flowers very nearly 

 allied to those of Orchis, but the perianth 

 has no spur, and the anther-cells are dis- 

 tant at the base, the glands of the stalks 

 of the pollen-masses protruding below the 



