H A M 
Thife plan-? grows to the height of fix or eight feet, 
having a woody ftem, which is well furnifhed with 
branches ; thefe have oval fawed leaves, which are 
placed oppofite, and continue green through the year; 
: the flowers come out fingly., and are of a red colour, 
but, being intermixed with the leaves, are not feen 
unlefs they are looked after, for they grow fcatteringly 
on the branches ; thefe come out in June, and the 
feeds ripen in September; the leaves are green in win- 
ter, fo the plants make a variety in the green-houfe 
during that feal'on. 
It may be propagated by cuttings, which, if planted in 
pots filled with light earth in June, and plunged into 
a gentle hot-bed, will foon take root ; thefe plants may 
be expofed in fummer, and will require plenty of wa- 
ter in that feafon ; in winter they mult be honied with 
Myrtles, and other hardy exotic plants, which re- 
quire a large fhare of air in mild weather. 
HAMAMELIS. Lin. Gen. Plant. 155. Trilopus. 
Mitch. Gen. 22. The Witch Hazel. 
The Characters are, 
It is male and female in different plants ; the male flowers 
have a four -leaved empalement , and four narrow ■petals , 
which are reflexed ; they have four narrow ftamina , which 
are fhorter than the petals , terminated by horned reflexed 
fummits. The female flowers have a four-leaved involu- 
crum , in which are four flowers ; thefe have a four-leaved 
empalement , which is coloured ; they have four narrow 
petals , which are reflexed , and four neftariums adhering 
to the petals. In the center is Jituated an oval hairy ger- 
tnen, fupporting two flyles , crowned by headed ftigmas. 
The germed, afterward becomes an oval capfule fitting in 
the involucrum , having two cells , each containing one hard , 
oblong , fmooth feed. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond fedtion 
of Linnaeus’s fourth clafs, but properly belongs to the 
fecond fettion of his twenty-fecond clafs, which in- 
cludes thofe plants which have male and female flowers 
in different plants,' whofe female flowers have two 
ftyles. 
We have but one Species of this genus in the 
Englifh gardens at prefent, viz. 
Hamamelis ( Virginiana ). Flor. Virg. 139. The Witch 
Hazel. Piftachia Virginiana nigra, coryli foliis. 
Pluk. Aim. 296. Black Virginia Piftachia with Hazel 
leaves. 
This plant grows naturally in North America, from 
whence the feeds have been brought to Europe, and 
many of the plants have been raifed in the Englifh 
gardens, where they are propagated for fale by the 
nurfery gardeners. It hath a woody ftem, from two 
to three feet high, fending out many fiender branches, 
garnifhed with oval leaves, indented on their edges, 
having great refemblance to thofe of the Hazel Nut, 
placed alternately on the branches ; thefe fall away in 
autumn, and when the plants are deftitute of leaves, 
the flowers come out in clufters from the joints of the 
branches ; thefe fometimes appear the latter end of 
Gdtober, and often not till December, but are not 
fucceeded by feeds in this country. 
As the flowers of this fhrub make very little ap- 
pearance, fo it is only preferved in the gardens of 
the curious, more for the fake of variety than its 
beauty. 
This is propagated by laying down the young branches 
in autumn, which will take root in one year, provided 
they are duly watered in dry weather ; but many of 
the plants which are in the gardens, have been pro- 
duced from feeds which came from America ; thefe 
feeds always remain a whole year in the ground, fo 
they fhouid be fown in pots, which may be plunged 
into the ground in a fhady part of the garden, where 
they may remain all the fummer, and require no other 
care but to keep the pots clean from weeds, and in 
very dry weather to water them now and then ; in 
autumn the pots may be removed to a warmer fitua- 
tion, and plunged into the ground under a warm 
hedge ; and if the winter fhouid prove very fevere, 
they fhouid have fome light covering thrown over the 
pots, which will fecure the feeds from being deftroyed. 
H A S 
In the fpring the plants will come up, therefore as tBfe 
feafon grows warm, the pots may be removed where 
they may have the morning fun till eleven o’clock ; 
and if they are duly watered in dry weather, the plants 
will have made good progrefs by autumn, when they 
fhouid be tranfplanted, either into fmall pots, or in a 
nurfery-bed, where in one, or at molt two years time, 
they will be ftrong enough to plant where they are de- 
figned to remain ; they love a mailt foil, and a fhady 
fituation. 
HAMELLIA. Lin. Gen. 232. 
The Characters are, 
The empalement of the flower is fmall , permanent , and cut 
into five acute figments ; the flower is of one petal having 
a long tube , whofe brim is cut into five acute points ; it hath 
five awl-fhaped ftamina inferted to the middle of the petals 
terminated by linear fummits the length of the petal ; and 
an oval gerrnen , whofe lower point is conical fupporting 
a fender ftyle the length of the corolla , crowned by an ob- 
tufe linear ftigma : the gerrnen afterward becomes an oval 
furrowed berry , with five cells , filled with fmall comprejfed 
feeds. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft order of 
Linnaeus’s fifth clafs, intitled Pentandria Monogynia, 
the flower having five ftamina and one ftyle,: it is 
named in honour of Monfieur du HameidesMonceaux, 
member of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, and 
fellow of the Royal Society of London; a gentleman 
well known to the learned, by the many ufeful books 
he has publifhed. 
We know but one Species of this genus, viz. 
1. Hamellia ( Patens ) racemis eredos. Jacq. Amer. 
7 1 . Hamellia with ere hi fpikes of flowers. 
This plant grows naturally in Africa, and alfo in the 
warm parts of America : I received the feeds from 
Paris, which were brought from Senegal by Mr. 
Adanlon, with the title of Mortura on the paper ; 
and before that, received a drawing of the plant in 
flower, from the late Dr. Houftoun, who found ic 
growing naturally in America, where it has lince been 
found growing by Mr. Jacquin, who has figured it. 
It rifes with a ligneous ftalk five or fix feet high, 
fending out feverai eredt branches toward the top, 
garnifhed with oval woolly leaves, placed by threes 
round the branches, having red foot- italics ; the flow- 
ers terminate the branches in fiender fpikes ; they are 
tubulous, and cut at their brims into five fharp feg- 
ments, ftanding erebt, of a bright red colour : thele 
are not fucceeded by feeds in England. 
This plant is propagated by feeds, when they can be 
procured frefti from the countries where it grows na- 
turally : thefe fhouid be fown in fmall pots, and 
plunged into a moderate hot-bed : the plants gene- 
rally appear in about five or fix weeks after, and 
fhouid then be treated in the fame way as other plants 
from the fame countries ; giving them proper air in 
warm weather, and gently refrefbing them with wa- 
ter ; and when they are fit to tranfplant, they fhouid 
be each planted in a fmall pot, plunging them into 
the hot-bed again, where they fhouid oe ltiaded rrom 
the fun until they have taken new root, when they 
fhouid have air and riioifture according to the warmth 
of the feafon. In the autumn the plants muft be re- 
moved into the tan-ftove, plunging the pots into the 
bed, where they fhouid be always continued : this 
flowers in July and Auguft, when it makes a pretty 
appearance. 
As the feeds of this plant are feldom brought to 
England, fo the plant may be propagated by cut- 
tings, which if planted in fmall pots, plunged into a 
moderate hot-bed, and clofely covered with either 
bell or hand-glaffes, will put out roots in about nx 
weeks, and may then be treated in the fame way as 
the feedling plants. 
HARMALA, See Peganum. 
HASSEL QJL 7 1 S T I A. Lin. Gen, 341. 
The Characters are. 
It is an umbelliferous plant , whofe univerfal umbel is cotn- 
pofed of fix fpreading rays ; thefe are for the moft part 
double ; the greater involucrum has many fhort briftly 
2 leaves ; 
