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the-earth as-Ea-ve their Ibadowsat noon projedVed always 
the fame way with regard to .themfelv.es,,or alway.s con- 
trary ways with refpedt'to each other. Thus, all the 
inhabitants without- the torrid zone are Heterofcii with 
regard to themfelves,. fince any, one fuch inhabitant has 
his fliadow at- noon always the fame way, viz. always 
north of him in north latitude, and alwaysYouth of-him 
in Youth latitude; or thefe two fituations are Heterofcii 
to each-other, having fuch- (liadows. projected contrary 
ways at all times of the year. 
HSTEROSPER'MUM', f. in botany, a genus of the 
clafs fyngenefia, order fuperfltia. Elfential generic cha- 
■jfadlers.—Receptacle naked ; feeds of the margin- com- 
preffed, with a membranaceous.edge ; inner ones oblong, 
iw.o-a.wned ; calyx double ;■ outer one four-parted] inner 
one many-leaved. 
Species, r. Heterofpermum pinnatum : (lent fmooth ; 
leaves pinnate; leaflets linear, fubulate, entire. Native 
of New Spain. 
z. Heterofpermum ovatum: (tern villous; leaves ovate, 
ierrate at the tip. Inhabits Peru. 
HETERORYTH'MUS, f. [Gr. from swt 5 , another, 
•and a number.] A medical term, applied to a 
pulfe which is not proper or natural to the age of the 
patient. 
HETF.ROU'SIANS.yi [from ete^o;, another, and naiet, 
Gr. fubftance.] A branch of the Arians, who held that 
fche Son was of a fubftance different from, that of the 
Father. DiEi. of Arts. 
HETH, [Heb. fear or aftonifhment.] The father of 
the Hit tiles, and the elded fon of Canaan, (Gen. x. 15.) 
dwelt foutihward-of the, promifed land, at Hebron, and 
its vicinity. Ephron, an inhabitant of Hebron, was of 
the race of Heth.; and this whole city in Abraham’s time 
was peopled by the children of Heth. 
HETH'LON, the name of a place mentioned Ezek. xlvii. 
T.5. xlviii. 1. 
HETRU'RTA, or.ETRu'RiA, a celebrated country 
of Italy,, fituated on the weft of-the Tyber ; which was 
peopled by colonies from Greece, and thence named 
Magna Gitecia. 1 1 originally contained twelve different 
nations, which had, each its refpedtive prince or chief. 
Their names were Veientes, Chiftni, Perufini, Corto- 
nenfes, Arretini, Vetuloni, Volaterrani, Rufellani, Vol- 
fcinii, Tarquinii, Falifci, and Casretani. The inhabitants 
were particularly famous for their confidence in omens, 
dreams, auguries, &c. They proved powerful and refo- 
lute enemies to the rifing empire of the Romans, and 
were conquered only after much eftufion of blood. 
Mr. Bryant fays, that, “ when the Hetrurians.fettled 
in Italy, they founded many places of ftrength ; and are 
reputed to have been the firft who introduced the art of 
fortification. They w.orlhipped the Sun, ftiled Zan, and 
Zeen ; wliofe temples were called Tur-Zeen : and in con- 
fequence of if one of the principal names by which their 
country was diftinguiftied, was Turzenia. The Hetru- 
rians occupied a large tradl of fea-coaft ; on which ac¬ 
count they worftffpped Pofeidon. They erected upon 
their (hores. towers and beacons for the fafety of their 
navigation, which they palled Tor-Ain;. whence they 
had a (till farther denomination of Tur-Aini, and their 
country was named Tur-Ainia; the Tv^na of the later 
Greeks. All thefe appellations are from the fame ob- 
jedt, the towers which they eredted. They were thought 
to have been the .inventors of trumpets: and in their 
towers upon the fea-coaft there were people appointed 
to be continually upon the watch both by day and night; 
and to give a proper lignal, if any thing happened extra¬ 
ordinary. This was done by a blaft from a trumpet, and 
Triton was hence feigned to have been Neptune’s trum¬ 
peter. He is accordingly defcribed by Nonnus, 1 .17, 
TvpfWtlS QafvSowrrav s%wy auXirtyfx SaAaov*)?. 
However, in early times, thefe brazen inftruments were 
but little known ; and people were obliged to make ule 
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of, what-was nearer athand, the conchsof the Yea, which 
every ftrar.d afforded. By .founding thefe they gave fig- 
nals.from the top of the towers, when any (hip appeared: 
and this is the inftrument with whichTriton is moll com. 
monly, furniflied.” In modern times this portion of Italy 
has been known under the denomination of Tufcavp.; 
until the revolution in Italy in 1806, when Napoleon 
Bonaparte eredted it .into a kingdom, under its ancient 
appellation of Hetru ria : but it was.of (hort duration ; 
for, on the 24th of May, 1808., it was decreed, at a (e- 
natus confultum, that “ the dates ,of Tufcany, or.He- 
truria, (hall form an, indiviftble portion of the French 
empire from.that date; under the name ofitbe department 
of the Arno, the department- of ihe-Mediterranean, and the 
department of the Ombrona.” 
HET'SIN, or Et/sin, a. town ofthe kingdom of Co¬ 
rea, in the province of Tchu-fin: ninety.five miles fouth 
of King.ki-tao. Lat> 36.4,7. N. ion. 144. 40, E. Ferro. - 
HETTAN'GE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Mofelle, and cljieff place of a: canton, in the dif- 
tridt of, Thionville: two leagues fouth-weft of Rode- 
niack, and: one and a quarter, north-weft of Thionville. 
HEV^E'I, one of the feven people who occupied Cas- 
naan ; the fame with the Kadmonai, dwelling at ; the foot 
of- Hermon, and' partly of Libanus, or between Eibanus 
and Hermon; (Judges iii. 3-) To this Bochart refers the 
fables concerning. Cadmus and Hermphia, changed to 
ferpents; the name Hem denoting a wild bead, fuch as a 
ferpent. Cadmus, who is laid-to have carried the ufe 
of letters to Greece, feems to have been a Kadmonean; 
of whom the Greeks fay that he came to their country 
from Phoenicia. 
HEU'BACH, a town of Germany, in Swabia, and 
duchy of Wuntemberg: twenty-two miles north cfUlm, 
and thirty-four eaft of Stuttgard. 
HEUCHE'RA, f. [from Jo. Hen. de Hcucher, profeffor 
of medicine at Witteberg, and author of Hortus Witte- 
bergenfis, 171,3.], In botany, a genus of the clafs pentarti 
dria, order digynia, natural order of fucculenta;, (faxi. 
frag as, JuJf.) The generic characters, are—Calyx: pe- 
rianthium one-leafed,.five-cleft, rounded, narrow; clefts 
obtufe. Corolla : petals five, inferted into the edge of 
the calyx, oval-linear, the length of the .calyx. Stamina: 
filaments five, fubulate, upright; antherse roundiftt. 
Piftillum: germ roundiftt, half five-cleft, ending in two 
ftraight ftyles, the length of the ftamens, (permanent, 
fubulate-fetaceous, long, diverging, Gartner-,) ftigrnas 
blunt. Pericarpium : capfule ovate, acuminate, half- 
five-cleft, two-beaked, two-celled, the beaks bent back, 
(inferior, clofely barked by the calyx, opening by a hole 
within the ftyles, G.) Seeds: many, fmall_ EJfential Ckci- 
raEier. Petals five; capfule two-beaked, two-celled. 
Species. 1. Heuchera Americana, or American heu- 
chera, or fanicle: fcapes almoft naked; thyrfe elongated.; 
root-leaves feven-lobed, on long petioles,, doubly and 
fliarply crenate. Root perennial, fending out many cor¬ 
date-ovate leaves, four or five lobed, of a lucid green, 
and fmooth, from among thefe come out the fcapes, a 
foot high, dividing at the top into aloofe panicle, fuftain- 
ing many fmall hairy flowers, of an obfolete purple co¬ 
lour. It is a native of Virginia ; flowers in May, and the 
feeds ripen in Auguft. Gaertner remarks, that the cap¬ 
fule may be regarded as of the circumcifed kind; for, if 
it be (lightly preffed with the fingers, the horns, toge¬ 
ther with the partition and lid, fall oft - , leaving the 
upper margin fmooth and quite entire. It appears by 
the fupplemental volume to Ray’s Hiftory, that it flow¬ 
ered in theEngli(h gardens before 1704, 
2. Heuchera dichotoma, or dichotomous heuchera: 
Item branched ; peduncles two-flowered, axillary; leaves 
linear-lanceolate, oppofite, entire on the Item. This is 
a fpecies which recedes a little in point of the appear¬ 
ance of the flower from the characters of the genus; yet 
not £0. much fo as to juftify the inftitution of a new genus 
for it. The whole plant is hairy: the item at firft pro- 
10 C ilrate. 
