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mina: In the males filaments five, very fliort; anther.se cy- 
iindric, fhorter. Piftillinn: in the females germ margined, 
large; ftyle bifid; ftigmas upright. Pericarpium : none; 
calyx unchanged. Seeds : in the females oval, with a very 
wide rim all round, naked. Receptacnlum: naked.— Effen- 
tial CharaElcr. Calyx hemifpherical, fubimbricate; c.orol- 
lets of the ray ten, obfolete, fubtrifid ; feeds with'very 
broad margins, naked ; down none ; receptacnlum naked. 
Species, r. Hippia integrifolia, or annual hippia: hif- 
pid, erect, leaves ovate, ferrate, five-nerved, racemes ter¬ 
minating. This has the flowers of Hippia, with the herb 
of Urtica. Native of the Eaft Indies. 
2. Hippia minuta, or minute hippia: herbaceous, pro¬ 
cumbent, creeping, fmooth ; leaves pinnate; peduncles 
axillary, cne-fiowered. Found in South America by Mutis. 
3. Hippia frutefeens, or fhruhby hippia: (hrubby, vil- 
lofe; leaves pinnatifid ; flowers corymbed. Stem (hrubby, 
eight or ten feet high, fending out branches on every fide 
the whole length. The flowers are produced in fmall 
roundifh bunches at the ends of the branches; they are 
of a fulphur colour, and "appear in May; but there is a 
fucceflion of flowers on the fame plant great part of the 
hummer. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Linnaeus 
originally made this a fpecies of Tanacetum ; when he 
published the twelfth edition of the Syitema (1767), the 
ll’rufture of the ■fructification appeared to him to be fo 
nearly allied to Eriocephalus, as fcarcely to merit a fepa- 
rate genus. In 1.771, however, when the Mantilla was 
printed, he thought it approached nearer to Iva than Ta¬ 
nacetum, but was diftinft from both; and he then gave 
it the name of Hippia. 
Propagation and Culture. The feeds rarely ripen in Eng¬ 
land ; but it is eafily’propagated by cuttings, planted in 
a bed of loamy earth, during any of the fummer months. 
Shade them from the fun until they have taken root, and 
refrefh them frequently with water. Take them up with 
bplls of earth about their roots, plant them in pots, and 
place them in a fhady fltuation until they have taken new 
root; then remove them to a flieltered place, among other 
hardy exotics, and in Oflober put them into fhelter. This 
plant, requiring only proteftion from froft, mult not be 
too tenderly treated. 
HIP'PIADES,/. [Greek.] Images reprefenting women 
on horfeback. 
HIPPI'ATER, f. [from Gr. a horfe, and isclgog, a 
healer.] One Who lludies the pathology of horfes; a horfe- 
doftor; a farrier. See Farriery, vol. vii. 
HIPPIAT'ICS, f. Books treating, of horfes. 
HIPPI'ATRIC, f. A medicine for horfes. 
HIPPI'ATRICE, f. [from isibro;, Gr. a horfe, and 
txTgEva, to cure.] The art of curing the difeafes of horl’es. 
See Farriery, vol. vii. p.223. 
HIP'PICON,/ [Greek.] A meafure containing four 
furlongs. 
HIP'PING,yi The aft of diflocating the hip; the aft 
of Hoping down the corner of a roof. 
HIP'PISH, adj. Afflifted with the hip; hypochondriac. 
IIIP'PISHNESS, /. The ltate of being hippifh. 
HIP'PIUS, a furname of Neptune, from his having 
raifed a horfe (itttz-os) from the earth in his conteft with 
Minerva concerning the giving a name to Athens. 
- HIP'PO, in ancient geography, a celebrated town of 
Africa, in the Mediterranean. Strabo fays that there are 
two of the fame name in Africa; one of which, by way of 
diftin&ion, is called Regius.— -Alfo a town of Spain. Livy. 
HIPPOBOS'CA,./! in entomology, a genus belonging 
to the order of diptera. The characters are: mouth with 
a fhort cylindrical ftraight two-valved fucker, the valves 
equal; antennte filiform ; feet armed with numerous claws; 
body flat and hard. There are only five fpecies, viz. 
s. Hippobofca equina, orhorfe-fly: wings obtufe; tho¬ 
rax variegated ; feet armed with four claws. Head brown ; 
thorax brown varied with pale yellow; wings eroding each 
ether, hyaline with a brown fpot near the outer margin ; 
legs annulate with yellow and brown. Inhabits Europe, 
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and is very troublefome to horfes: they attach themfelves 
firmly to the lkin, by means of their crooked nails; and, 
when in the aft of fucking blood, it is with difficulty 
that they can be detached. They abound molt in forefts, 
whence they obtained the name of “ the forell-fly.'” See 
this infeft figured in the Engraving, at fig. 2. 
2. Hippobofca avicularia : wings obtufe; thorax imma¬ 
culate. Body dull brown, with a flight caft of green. It 
is found in Europe, on the body of various birds. 
3. Hippobofca hirundinis: wings tapering to a point; 
feet with fix claws. Body brown, with a bluifa caft; 
abdomen darker. See the Engraving, fig. .3. 
4. Hippobofca ovina: wings none; body dull beftaceous. 
Legs hairy; claws double. Inhabits Europe, among the 
wool of fheep. 
5. Hippobofca Uralenfis: black, hairy, with three rows 
of white Ihining veficles on the back. Inhabits Ural. 
HIP'POCAMP, f. [imrcy-ay-Troi;', Gr.] A fea-horie: 
Jove’s bright lamps 
Guiding from rocks her chariot’s kippocamps. W. Browne. 
HIPPOCAM'PI, f.pi. The horfes of Neptune’s chariot. 
HIPPOCAS'TANUM, J. in botany. See ^Eschulus. 
HIPPOCEN'TAUR,/! [from itttto;, Gr. a horfe, y.tvrtu, 
I fpur, and ratios, bull.] In antiquity, a fabulous mon- 
fter, fuppofed to be half horfe and half man... What.gave 
occafion to the fable was, that a people of Thefialy, inha¬ 
biting near mount Pelion, became thus denominated, be- 
caufe they were the firft that taught the art of mounting 
on horfeback ; which occafioned fome of their neighbours 
to imagine, that the horfe and man made but one animal. 
The bippocentaurs differed from the centaurs in this, that 
the latter rode on bullocks, and the former on horfes, as 
the names themfelves intimate. 
HIPPOC'OON, in fabulous hiftory, a fon of CEbalus, 
brother toTyndarus. He was put to death by Hercules, 
becaufe he had driven his brother from the kingdom of 
Lacedaemon. He was at the chace of the Calydonian boar. 
Diodorus. 
HIPPOCOU'RIUS, a name given to Neptune. 
HIP'POCRASS,yi [hypocras, Fr. quajivinum Hippocratis .] 
A medicated wine, formerly recommended as a cordial jn 
paralytic and nervous cafes: 
Sack and the well-fpic’d hippocrajls, the wine, 
Waflail the bowl, with ancient ribbands fine. Si>ng. 
HIPPOCRATE'A, f. [fo named by Plunder in me¬ 
mory of Hippocrates, the famous Greek phyfician, and fa¬ 
ther of medicine.] In botany, a genus of the clafs trian- 
dria, order monogynia, natural order of acera, JuJ], The 
generic charafters are—Calyx : perianthium one-leafed, 
very fmall; leaflets roundifh, Spreading, incumbent, (mailer 
than the corolla. Corolla: petals five, ovate, fpreading, 
permanent, excavated at the tip, villofe. Stamina: fila¬ 
ments three, contiguous to the germ and ftyle, awl-fhaped, 
reflex at the tip; antherie roundifh, with a tranfverfe 
.groove. Piftillurn: germ roundifh; ftyle three-fided, awl- 
fhaped, longer than the ftamens ; ftigma blunt. Fericar- 
pium: capfules three, obcordate or elliptic, comprefled, 
large, with two-valved cells ; valves keeled and com- 
preffed. .Seeds: in fives or fixes, oblong, v/ith a membra¬ 
naceous wing; at firft foft, but afterwards hardening like 
nuts, with oblong kernels.— HJj'ential CharaHer. Calyx five- 
parted ; petals five; capfules three, obcordate or elliptic. 
Species. 1. Hippocrates volubilis, or voluble hippocra- 
tea: racemes corymbed ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, ferrate. 
This is a fcandent plant (not twining, whence Linnscus 
called it volubilis) ; Jacquin therefore changed the name 
to fcandens. Miller fays it grew with him to the height 
of eight or ten feet, twining round ftakes with very (len¬ 
der (talks. Native of Garthagena in New Spain, and feve- 
ral of the Weft-India iflands. Mr. Miller had it by Mr. 
Robert Millar from Campeaehy. Swartz fays it flowers 
in the fpring; Jacquin faw it flowering both in April and 
December, and gathered the fruit in July. He informs 
us, that in the dry feafon, when all the trees lofe their 
leaves. 
