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dom more than twenty feet high: the leaves greatly re¬ 
ferable thofe of the common holly, and are fet with iharp 
prickles at the end of each indenture ; they are of a lucid 
green, and continue all the year. Native of South Ame¬ 
rica. Mr. Miller had thefe two from Dr. Houftoun, who 
found this at Campeachy, and the preceding at Cartha- 
gena in New Spain. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe plants are preferved in 
fome of the curious gardens in Europe, where they can 
never be expected to rife to any great height, for they are 
too tender to live in thefe northern countries, but in 
ftoves ; they rife eafily from feeds, provided they are good. 
The feeds mult be fown upon a good hot-bed ; and, when 
the plants come up, they fhould be each planted in a fmall 
feparate pot filled with light fandy earth, and plunged into 
a good bed of tanner’s bark, treating them in the fame 
way as other tender plants ; but they mull not have much 
wet, for thefe plants abound with an acrid milky juice, and 
it is certain that molt plants which do are foon killed by 
much moifture. Thefe plants mult be removed into the 
ftove, and plunged into the tan-bed, in autumn, where 
the)'; fhould conftantly remain, giving them very little wa¬ 
ter in-winter ; and in fummer, when the weather is warm, 
they fhould have a good fliare of air admitted to them, and 
be once or twice a-week refrefhed with water. By this 
management many of thefe plants have been railed to the 
height of five or fix feet, which have, by their finning 
green leaves, made a pretty variety during the winter fea- 
fon in the ftove. See Hura. 
HIPPOM'ANES, f. [from jtttto;, Gr. a horfe, and p„a- 
vi k, madilefs.] A black flefliy kernel in the forehead of a 
young colt, which the mare was fabled to bite oft’ as foon 
as fhe had foaled; a noted poifon among the ancients, 
and a chief ingredient in love-potions. Scott. 
HIPPOMARA'THRUM, f. in botany. See Cachrys 
and Seseli. 
HIPPOM'EDON, a fon of Nifimachus and Mythidice, 
who was one of the feven chiefs that went againft Thebes. 
He w r as killed by Ifmarus, fon of Acaftus. Apollodorus. 
HIPPOM'ENES, in fabulous hiftory, a fon of Maca- 
reus and Merope, who married Atalanta, with the afiift- 
ance of Venus. Thefe two fond lovers were changed into 
lions by Cybele, whole temple they had profaned in their 
impatience to confummate their nuptials. Ovid. 
HIPPOMOL'GI, a very ancient people of Scythia. Dio- 
nyfius. 
HIP'PON, in ancient geography, a town of Africa. 
HIPPO'NA, a goddefs who prefided over horfes. Her 
ftatues were placed in the ftables of horfes. Juvenal. 
HIPPO'NAX, a Greek poet, born at Ephefus, 540 years 
before the Chriftian era He cultivated the fame fatiri* 
cal poetry as Archilochus, and was not inferior to him in 
the beauty or vigour of his lines. His fatirical raillery 
obliged him to fly from Ephefus. As he was naturally 
deformed, two brothers, Buphalus and Anthemius, made 
a flatue of him, which, by the deformity of its features, 
expofed the poet to univerlal ridicule. Hipponax re- 
folved to revenge tjie injury, and he wrote fuch bitter in- 
veftives and fatirical lampoons againft them, that they 
hanged themfelves in defpair. Cicero. 
EEIPPONI'ATES, in ancient geography, a bay in the 
country of the Brutii. 
HIPPO'NIUM, a city in the country of the Brutii, 
where Agathocles built a dock. Strabo. 
HIPPON'OUS, in mythology, the father of Peribcea 
and Capaneus. He was killed by the thunderbolts of Ju¬ 
piter before the walls of Thebes. Apollodorus. 
I-iIPPOPH'AE, J'. Sea-Buckthorn; in botany, a ge¬ 
nus of the clafs dioecia, order tetrandria, natural order of 
calyciflorac, (eiaeagni, JuJJ.) The generic characters are— 
I. Male. Calyx: perianthium one-leafed, two-parted, 
two-valved, with the bottom entire ; the parts roundifti, 
blunt, concave, upright, converging at the tips, and gap¬ 
ing on the fides. Corolla: none. Stamina: filaments 
four, very Ihort; antherse oblong, angular, almoft the 
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length of the calyx. Hermaphrodite flowers have fome- 
times been obferved among the males. II. Female. Ca¬ 
lyx : perianthium one-leafed, ovate-oblong, tubular, club- 
fliaped, with the mouth cloven, deciduous. Corolla: none;- 
Piftillum : germ roundifti, fmall ; ltyle Ample, very (hort; 
ltigma thickifh, oblong, upright, twice as long as the ca^ 
lyx. Pericarpium ; berry l'uperior, fubglobular, one- 
celled. Seeds ; Angle, oblong, hard, Ihini wg.—Ejfential 
CharaCler. Calyx bifid ; Corolla none ; ltyle one ; berry 
one-feeded. 
Species. 1. Hippophae'rhamnoides, or common fea- 
buckthorn : leaves lanceolate. Sea-buckthorn, or fwal- 
low-thorn, riles with fhrubby ftalks eight or ten feet high, 
fending out many irregular branches, which have a brown 
bark iilvered over. Leaves narrow, or linear-lanceolate) 
about tw'o inches long, and a quarter of an inch broad in 
the middle, of a dark green on their upper fide, but hoary- 
under, with a prominent midrib ; the borders are reflexed, 
as in rofemary ; they are placed alternate on every fide the 
branches, and fit clofe to them ; there are little, ciufteted, 
peltate, ciliate, pale ficales fcattered over them. The 
branches fpread wide, are ftraight, ft iff, and thorny at the 
ends ; the fmaller ones numerous, fcattered, finort, and 
fpreading. Flowers folitary, appearing before the leaves, 
but generally abortive, unlels the Ihrub grows in its natural 
fituation. They come out from the branchlets of the for¬ 
mer year. The berries are very abundant, on Ihort pe¬ 
duncles, ovate, or ovate-globular, mucronate with the 
ltyle, red or yellow when ripe, fucculent, fmooth, fprin- 
kled here and there with callous dots ; the cell is clothed 
with a very thin membrane, cohering with the ltyle. 
Seed oblong, attenuated below, fomewhat comprelfed, 
marked on each fide by a depreffed longitudinal line, very 
fmooth and black. The berries are gratefully acid, and 
are much eaten by the Tartars; alfo about mount Caucafus. 
The filhermen of the gulf of Bothnia prepare a rob from 
them, which imparts a grateful flavour to frelh filh. In 
funny fandy fituarions this flirub is planted for hedges; it 
is ul’ed for dying yellow. Kifle refufeit; goats, fheep, 
and horfes, eat it. Native of many parts ot Europe, on 
fandy fea-coafts. In England, near Sandwich, Deal, 
Folkftone, and the ifle of Shepey in Kent; Canvey illand 
in Effex; Cley and Sheringham cliffs, and between Yar¬ 
mouth and Winterton, in Norfolk ; Lincolnfhire ; Whit¬ 
by and Lyth, in Yorklhire. It flowers in April and 
May; Ray fays, June; and Miller, July. Miller fays, 
that he has obferved. it only with yellow berries in Eng¬ 
land ; but on -the coaft of Ploliand, France, See. it has 
moftly red berries. 
2. Hippophae Canadenfis, or Canadian fea-buckthorn: 
leaves ovate. This has the appearance of the former fort; 
but the leaves are broader, only half the length, of an 
ovate or oblong-ovate form; on the upper furface they 
are green, with diverging hairs, in bundles, fcarcely to be 
difeerned by the naked eye ; on the lower they are filvery 
with hairs and feales, and have nift-coloured dots fcat¬ 
tered over them. The branches fire oppofite ; and the 
racemes Ample among the firft leaves, upright, and lhorter 
by half than the leaves. Native of Canada. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe fhrubs may eafily be 
propagated by fuckers from the root, taken off in au¬ 
tumn, and tranfplanted into a nurfery. After one year’s 
growth, they wdll be fit to tranfplant where they are to 
remain. They may alfo be increaled by layers, but the 
roots fpread, and put up fuch abundance of fuckers, that 
there is no neceffity to be at this trouble. There being 
little beauty in thefe fhrubs, it will be lufficient to have 
one or two of them in plantations. 
HIPPOPHiE / STUM, /. in botany.' See Centaurea 
CALCITRAPA. 
HIPPOPO'DES, f. [iirwcc, Gr. horfe, and wer, foot.] 
In ancient geography, an appellation given to a people 
fituated on the banks of the Scythian Sea, as being fup- 
poled to have had horfes feet. They are mentioned by 
Dionyfius, Mela, Pliny, and St. Auguftine. But it is 
3 conjectured 
