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HER'DOMADE, f. The hebdomad; a feptenaly; 
the fpaee of feven days. Bailey. 
HEBDOMADEE'R,/. The hebdomadary. Scott. 
HEBDOMA'DIUS, f. The 'week’s-man, canon, or 
prebendary, in the cathedral church, who hath the care 
of the choir, and the officers belonging to it, for his own 
week. See the article Ebdomary, vol. vi. p. 220. 
HE'BE, in mythology, a daughter of Jupiter and 
Juno. .According to fome (lie was the daughter of Juno 
only, who conceived her after eating lettuce. As ffie 
was fair, and always in the bloom of youth, Ihe was" 
called the goddefs of youth, and made by her mother 
cup-bearer to all the gods. She was difmilied from her 
office by Jupiter, becaufe ffie fell down in an indecent 
pofture as ffie was pouring nectar to the gods.at a grand 
feftival; and Ganymedes, the favourite of Jupiter, fuc- 
ceeded her as cup-bearer. She was employed by her 
mother to prepare her chariot,, and to harnefs her pea¬ 
cocks whenever requisite. When Hercules was raifed to 
the rank of a god, he was reconciled to Juno by.marry¬ 
ing her daughter Hebe* by whom he had two fons, 
Alexiares and Anicetus. As Hebe had the power of 
re-ftoring gods and men to the vigour of youth, (he, at 
the inftance of her hulband, performed that kind office 
to Iolas his friend. Hebe was worshipped at Sicyon un¬ 
der the name of Dia, and at Rome under the name of 
Juventas. She is reprefented as a young virgin crowned 
with flowers, and arrayed in a variegated garment. 
Paufanias. 
HE'BE, f. Puberty; the time of youth. Bailey. 
HE'BE (Juffieu). See Veronica decussata. 
HEBEDJE'SU, a Syrian prelate of the Neflorian fe£t, 
who was made biffiop of Sigara and Arabia, about the 
year 1285, and afterwards appointed archbifhop of Nifi- 
bis, called by the AfTyrians Sola. He died in 1318. He 
is recorded as the author of A Catalogue of Chaldee 
Ecclefiaftical Writings, frequently referred to by orient 
tal fcholars, and in whieh is given a lift of the books of 
Scripture which were generally received by the Syrian 
Chriftians in his time. Of this work Ecchellenfis pub- 
lifhed an edition in 1633, with'deviations from the ori¬ 
ginal, for which he has been defervedly cenfured by 
Ifaac Beaufobre. The beft edition of this work was 
given to the public by the learned Dr. Jofeph Afleman, 
in the third volume of his Bibl. Orient. 
HEB'EN, adj. Ufed by Spenfer for ebon : 
A gentle youth his dearly-loved fquire, 
His fpeare of keben wood behind him bare. Fairy Queen. 
HEB'ENON,y. Ufed by Shakefpeare for henbane.— 
With juice of curfed hebenon in a vial. Hamlet. 
HE'BENSTREIT (John-Erneft), an eminent phyfi- 
cian and botanift, born at Neuftadt on the Orla, in 1703. 
After ftudying fome time at Jena, he repaired to Leiplic, 
where he took thedegree of mailer of arts in 1728 ; and 
foon after that of doctor of medicine. In 1731 he under¬ 
took a voyage to Africa, at the command of Frederic- 
Augtiftus II. king, of Poland. Having explored the 
neighbourhood of'Tripoli and Tunis, travelled through 
part of the defert lying between thofe two towns, and 
examined the ruins of Carthage, he was obliged to re¬ 
turn in confequence of the king’s death in 1733. Front 
this expedition he brought with him many curious ani¬ 
mals, with a fine collection of plants, herbs, fhells, and 
other curiofilies. The animals were placed in the me. 
nagerie at Drefden, and part of the curio'fities were fent 
to the king’s mufeum. He was afterwards patronifed 
by Auguftus III. in the fame manner as he had been 
by his father the late king ; and was now appointed pro- 
ieftor of medicine at Leiplic, where he died in 1757 °f a 
malignant tever, which, after the battle of Rolbach, 
proved fatal to many of the phyficians of that city. As 
a botanift, he publilhed A Defence of the Method of 
Rivinus, and propofed methods of his own in two works, 
Definitmes Plantar um, 1731, 4to. and De Methodo Plantation 
H E B 
ex FruHu optima, 1740, 4to. His other writings are, 1. 
De Ufu Partium, Carmen, feu Phyfiologia Metrica, Lipf. 1739C 
8vo.- 2. Pathologia Metrica, jive de Morbis Carmen , 1740, 
8vo. 3. Mufeum Richterianum, continent Fojfilia, Aninalia ; 
Vegetabilia,.Marina, illuftrata lconibus & Commentariis D. I. E. 
Hebertjlreit. Accedit (I. F. Chrijlii) de Gemmis fculptis antiquis 
Liberfmgularfs, 1743, folio. 4. Anthropologia forenfn, 1751, 
8vo. 5. Exegefis Nominum Gracorum qua Morb'os definiunt, 
175rj 4to. 6. De Hominefano & csgroto Carmen, 1758, 410.- 
7. Tentamen Philof. Medicum fuper Aetii Amy deni Synopfin. 
Medicorum vetcrum, 1757,410. 8. PaleologiaTherapice, edidit 
Godf. Gruner, Hala, 1779, 8vo. 
HEBENSTREI'TIA, /. [fo named by Linnaeus, in 
memory of John-ErneJl Hebenjlreit, pr.ofeffor of medicine 
at Leipfic, whofe life and works are detailed in the 
preceding article.] In botany, a genus of the clafs di- 
dynamia, order angiofpermia. The generic characters 
are—Calyx: perianthium one-leafed, tubular, membra¬ 
naceous, emarginate, gaping longitudinally underneath. 
Corolla: monopetalous, one-lipped ;■ tube cylindric, 
longer than the calyx, gaping on the lower fide half-way; 
border afeending, flattiffi, quadrifid, the. clefts nearly 
equal. Stamina: filaments four, .of which the upper 
pair is inferted into the edge of the corolla under the 
throat, and ftands out, the lower anterior pair is bent 
back to the fides; antherse crefcent-fhaped, compreiled, 
truncate outwards. Piftillum : germ very fma’llj ftyle 
filiform, flexuofe, bent back through the fiffurc of the 
Corolla; ftigma fimple. Pericarpium : capfule oblong, 
one-celled, two-valved. Seeds: two, oblong, convex 
on one fide, three-furrow r ed, flat on the other.— EJfential 
CharaEler. Calyx emarginate, cleft underneath; corolla 
one-lipped, lip afeending, four-cleft; ftamina inferted 
into the edge of the border of the corolla; capfule con¬ 
taining two feeds. 
Species. 1. Hebenftreitia dentata, or tooth-leaved he- 
benftreitia: leaves linear, toothed; fpikes fmooth. Stalk 
upright, a foot high, with fimple afeending branches 
next the root, and under the fpike. Leaves alternately 
fcattered, fomewhat hifpid, upright, with copious leaf¬ 
lets branching a little from each axil. The flowers in 
the morning are without feent; at noon they are ftink- 
ing and naufeous ; in the evening ambrofiac, like the 
oriental hyacinth. Native of the Cape of Good Hope; 
biennial ; flowers here from February to November. 
2. Hebenftreitia ciliata, or ciliated hebenftreitia: leaves 
linear, toothed; calyxes three-valved, ciliate. 3. He- 
benftrei.tia integrifolia, or entire-leaved hebenftreitia : 
leaves linear, quite entire. Both thefe bear a great re- 
femblance to the foregoing; and the third feems only to 
be a variety of the fecond. They ar.e both natives of 
the Cape. 
4. Hebenftreitia cordata, or heart-leaved hebenftreitia: 
leaves fomewhat flefliy, cordate, fefiile. An underffirub: 
Stem upright, whitifh, fmooth, and even, -fparingly 
branched only at top. Native of the Cape, and intro¬ 
duced by MafTon. 
5. Hebenftreitia erinoides: leaves oblong, ferrate, 
hairy; bradtes entire, hifpid. 6. Hebenftreitia frutieofa, 
or lhrubby hebenftreitia : leaves lanceolate, toothed, 
fmooth; bradles entire; ftem lhrubby. Found at the 
Cape by Thunberg. 
HE'BER, the fon of Salah, and father of Peleg, from 
whom the Hebrews derived their name, according to Jo- 
fephus, Eufebius, Jerome, Bede, and moft of the in¬ 
terpreters of the facred writings; but Huet bilhop of 
Avranches, in his Evangelical Demonftration, has at¬ 
tempted to prove, that the Hebrews took their name 
from the word heber , which fignifies beyond, becaufe they 
came from beyond the Euphrates'. Heber is fuppofed 
to have been born 2281 years before Chrift, and to have 
lived 464 years. 
HEB'ERDEN (William), aphyficianof diftinguilhed 
abilities, born at London in 17x0. In 17,24 he was fent 
to St.John’s collegej Cambridge ; and, after a refidqnce 
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