m HAL 
water, an account of which was publifhed in the Philo- 
fophical Tran faction's. 
His reputation and the intereft ofhisfamily and friends 
might eafily have procured him farther preferment : 
but of farther preferment he was nOt~defirous ; for be¬ 
ing nominated by his late majefty to a canonry of Wind- 
for, lie engaged the princefs to requeft his majefty to 
recal his nomination ; fitice he could not accept of any 
preferment which would reduce him to the dilemma ei¬ 
ther of negledting his duty, or of foregoing his amufe- 
rrient in philofophical purfu-its. He'was, however; re¬ 
markable for focial virtue arfd fweetnefs of temper; his 
life was not only blamelefs, but exemplary in a high de¬ 
gree'; he was happy in himfelf, and beneficial to others ; 
the conftant.ferenity and cheerfulnefs of his mind, and 
the temperance and regularity of his life, concurred, 
with a good cbnflitution, to preferve him in health and 
vigour to the uncommon age of fourfcore and four years. 
He died at Teddington in 1761 ; and was buried, pur- 
Aiant to his own directions, under the'tower of the pa-' 
rifii-chus'ch, which he built at his own expence-not long 
before his death. Her royal highnefs the princefs of 
Wales ereCted a monument to his memory in Weftmin- 
fter-abbey. 
HALE'SJA,/! [fo named by Ellis, in honour of the 
learned and venerable Stephen Hales, D.D. F.R.S. thefub- 
jett of the preceding article.] In botany, a genus of the 
clafs dodecandria, order monogynia, natural order of 
biconies, (g-uajacan<e, JitJf.) The generic characters 
are—Calyx : per-ianthium one-leafed, very fmall, ftipe- 
rior, four-toothed, permanent. Corolla: monopetalous, 
bell-fhaped, ventricofe; mouth four-lobed, blunt, pa¬ 
tulous. Stamina: filaments twelve (feldoin fixteen), 
fubhlate, upright, a little fhorfer than the corolla ; an- 
therae oblong, blunt, upright. Piltillum : germ oblong, 
inferior ; (tyle filiform, longer than the corolla ; ftigma 
Ample. Pericarpiitm: nut corticate, oblong, narrowing 
to both ends, four-cornered, the corners membranaceous, 
two-celled ; (drupe four-celled; Gartner.) Seeds : foli- 
tary.— EJfential CharaEler. Calyx four-toothed, fuperior ; 
corolla four-cleft; nut quadrangular, with two feeds. 
Species. 1. Halefia tetraptera, four-winged halelia, or' 
fnow-drop tree : leaves lanceolate-ovatey petioles glan¬ 
dular. This frequently comes up with two or three 
flems, from fifteen to twenty feet high, fending out 
branches towards their tops. Leaves ferrate, fharp- 
pointed, with the middle deprefled, growing alternately 
on fhoit foot-ftalks. The flowers hang in fmall bunches . 
all along the branches* each gem producing from four 
to eight or nine ; they are of a pure fnowy whitenefs ; 
and as they blow early in the fpring, before the leaves 
appear, and continue for two or three weeks, they make 
a mod elegant appearance. They are followed by pretty 
large four-winged fruit, hanging likewife in bunches, 
and very agreeable tor the tafte. The fruit is a juicelefs 
drupe, of an oblong obovate drape, four-fided, finifliing 
at,Top in the ftyle, at bottom in a very long peduncle : 
thin, fungous and membranaceous, drawn out into 
four ftiff lateral wings; fliell bony, obovate, fharp- 
pointed at each end, within empty, or having a fcurfy 
fungous fubftanee in the middle, and four cells with a 
feed in each, inclofed all round in the periphery. The 
feeds are fixed to the bottom of the cells, and are ob¬ 
long, a little bent, and of a pale colour. Native of 
South Carolina, growing commonly along the banks of 
Santee river, and fometimes more foutherly. The wood 
Is hard and veined; and theybark of a darkilh colour, 
with many irregular flrallow n ’’ares. It flowers in April 
and May. 
2. Halefia diptera, or two-winged halefia: leaves 
ovate, petioles- Anooth and even. The leaves of this 
are lix times the fize of the- foregoing. Received by 
John Ellis, efq. from governor Ellis, of Georgia, and 
lent to him by Mr. de Brahme, from -Augiifia in Georgia, 
three hundred miles up the river Savannah. 
H A L 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe plants are propagated 
by feeds, when they can be procured, frefli from the 
places of their natural growth. Thefe fhould be fown 
in pots as foon as the feeds arrive, plunging, the pots- 
into the ground, in a fituation where they may have 
only the morning fun. The feeds often remain a year 
in the ground-, therefore the earth in the pots Ihouid 
not be difturbed, until there- is no probability of the 
feed growing: When the plants appear, they fhould be 
fcreened from the fun, and frequently, but not too 
plentifully, watered; for, -while the plants are young, 
much moifture will rot their (hanks. The Jollowing 
aittuiyin, the pots fhould be placed in a common frame, 
where the plants may enjoy the free air in mild weather, 
and be fcreened from froft. The fpring following, be¬ 
fore the plants Begin to (hoof, they fhould be each put 
into a feparate fmall pot, plunging them in a frame, 
where they fhould be (haded from fun ; arid in the hum¬ 
mer placed in a fhady fituation, fcreening them in win¬ 
ter ; and the fpring following they may be turned ont 
of the pots, and planted'in the full'ground where they 
are d'efigned to remain. See GueTtarda,- and Tri- 
CH I'Ll A. 
HALESOW'EN, a market-town of Shropfhire, on 
' the eaft fide of Sturbridge, 118 miles front London. It 
had formerly an abbey, built in 1215, of which great 
part of the'walls ate yet (landing. Its market is on 
Mondays; and two fairs, on the Monday after E.alter- 
Monday, and' June 22. This parifli is detached in a 
very curious manner from the red of the county of Sa¬ 
lop, being'inclofed by Staffordfhire and Worcefterfhire 
feme part of it being in the latter county, on the banks 
of the Stour, a branch of which rifes in this parifli ; 
in which much foflil-wood has been dug up, ashavefome 
Roman antiquities. Here is a good free-fchool, and a 
manufadtory for making nails. About half a mile from 
Halefowen is the famous feat called the Leafowes , for¬ 
merly the property of Shenflone the poet., 
HA'LESWORTH, a populous town in the county of 
Suffolk, fituated on the river Blytli, and diftant thirty- 
two miles fYom Ipfwich, and 101 from London. It has 
a market on Tuefday; and three annual fairs, viz. 
Tuefday in Eafter-week, Tuefday in Whitfun-week, and 
Odtober 18. Here is a charity-fchool, and a very neat 
church. On the mill-hill, near the town, is a mineral 
fpring, which the inhabitants find a valuable fpecific for 
diforders of the eyes. The neareft fea-port is Southwold, 
diftant nine miles, to which place there is a newly-cut 
canal, and barges go down three or four times a-week 
with large quantities of corn, &c. for the London market. 
HALF,/! plural halves, [healp, Sax. and all the Teu¬ 
tonic dialetls. The L is often not founded.] A moiety; 
one part of two ; an equal part .—Half the mifery of life 
might be exlinguifhed, would men alleviate the general 
curfe by mutual companion. Addifon. 
Well-chofen friendfliip, the moll noble 
Of virtues, all our joys makes double, 
And into halves divides our trouble. Denham. 
It fometimes has a plural figmfication when a number 
is divided: 
Had the land feledted of the bed, 
Half had come hence, and let the world provide the reft. 
Dry den. 
HALF, adv. In part ; equally : 
I go with Love and Fortune, two blind gujdes,. 
To lead my way ; half loth, and half contenting. Dryden. 
It is much ufed in compofition to fignify a thing imper¬ 
fect, as the following examples will (how. 
HALF-BLOOD,/! One not born of the fame father 
and mother.—Which fhall be heir of the two male twins, 
who, by the difleftion of the mother, were laid open to 
the world ? Whether a filler by the half-blood fhall inherit 
before a brother’s daughter by the whole-blood ? Locke. 
Halt- 
