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There

are

15 fpecics, principally

difiinguilh~d

by Iheir

colours.

HEMEROC.t\LLIS, DAY' LtLLY, in botany, a genus

of Ihe hexar.Jri?· monogynia clafs . The corolla is

bell·Otaped, with a cylindrical tube; and Ihe flamina

are dcclinatcd. There are t\Vo fp:cies, none of them

natives of Britain.

HEM

a word ufed in tlte compofition of diven terms,

.lignifying the fame wilh femi, or demi,

.iz.

one half.

HEMINA, in Roman antiquity, aliquid meafure which,

according tOArbuthnot, was equa! tohalf a wine-pint

englilh meafure; in contents being 2,818 [olid ioches.

HEMIONITIS, in botany, a

~enus

of the cryptogamia

filices clafs. The pam of frutlificatioo lie in deculJ'a–

tinglines. There are three [pecies, none of them na–

tives of

ritain.

HEMIPLEGIA, or HE

PLUIA, among phyliciaos,

a palfy of one half of Ihe hody.

HEMISPHERE, io geomwy, Ihe half of a globe or

fphere, when it is [uppo[ed to be cut through ils ceotre

in the plane of one of its great cireles.

HEMIsPHERE is al[o u[ed to denote a projetlion ofhalf

the terreflrial glohe, or half the celenia! [phere, on a

plane, and frequendy called planifphere.

HEMISTICH, in poetry, denotes half a ver[e, or a ver[e

not completed.

HEMITRITlEUS

among phyGcians, a kind of inter–

miltiog fever, heing a [emitenian. See MEDICINE.

HEMLOCK, io bOlaoy. See CICUTA.

H;EMP,

bOlany. See CANNABIS.

The raiGog and dreffiog of bemp [carcely diIFers

from lhe raifiog aod dreffing of BaK, but io the foUow–

iog particulars.

Hemp requires a light, free, dry, dufiy, aod even

a [aody warm foil

which if oot naturally rich, mufl

be made [o by maoure. New broke up grouod does

not an[IVer for hemp, producing it thio aod poor upoo

the fi2lk. Hemp does weU to foUow beaos. The

ground Ihould be ploughed aod harrowed three or four

times, a fonnight or three weeks intervening between

each time. In fome parts of [iocoln and HoUaod the

[oil is oaturally [o free aod rich, that it wiU produce

hemp conflantIy year after year without maoure.

Theleaves which fall off Il¡e flalk help to manure the

ground. It is frequentIy [own Wilh a view to ele¡r

the ground of weeds

which it does Olofi affeétually,

growing fafl, and [oon checking every weed but mug–

wort, which is picked out with a fork.

is fown about the firfl of May; [o thio, that a–

bout four pecks are [u/licient for an EngliOl acre

and

the erouod mufl then be comed

much as poffible

preferve Ihe [eed from

th~

birds, who are very fond

ofit.

The

/aper-/opped

llalk which docs not bear Ihe

pods, is cal.led the

(emale,

though io faét it. is .the

male,

fcmenng from

115

bloom a [maU dull, whlch 1m–

pregnates Ihe pods of Ihe

6uJhJ-/opped;

which Iafl is

commonly, though improperly, called the male or

carle hemp.

When hemp is the objeét of the farmer (llore than

H E P

a crop of fceu, the \Vhole Ihould be pulled when Ihe

IlJlk begins tO grolV yellow, and the eanh remaining

about the roots Ihould be beat off to ptevent more

growth : but if the

r~ed

is wanled iil its greatefl per–

(et'lion, the llalks bearing the pods mufl be pulled be–

fore lhe upmoll poa begins to'open

Ihe eauh lhoDld

not be beat off froOl the rools; it Olould be llooked

in Iheaves upon the field, to dry and win

corn; and

Ihe top of there llooks fllould be comed with under–

growth, or the like, te preferve the (eed from the

birds.

Hemp is foooer watered Ihan

fla~,

and the canall

mufl be deeper.

lo keepiog Ihe [eed, care mufl be lalten

pre[me

it from rat!, mice, and fuch like vermin, who are aU

fond of it.

It is drelJ'ed as coar[e

fla~,

but is [ooner dreffed; aod

its greater 'Iength requires more care, and reoder! il

more troublefome in the handling, erpecially in the

n¡ulching of it by Ihe water lint-mills with horizon–

tal fl¡utchers, when it mufl be folded double. What

is too cnarfe and llrong in Ihe llalk for the hand or

foot machines, may be broke aod peeled by tbe haod.

See

F~AX :

HEMPSTEAD, a market-town of Hartfordntire,

twenty.four miles nouh -well of London.

HEN, io ornithology. See

PH"IANU~.

HEN·BANE . See HVOSClAMUS.

HENDECAGON, in geomelry, a fig1lre lbal halh e–

leven (¡des and as many angles.

HENLEY, a market-towo of Oxfordlhire, Gtuated

the river Thames, Iwenty miles foutb-eafl of Oxford,

and thirty-two wefl of Loodoo.

HENNEBURG, a lown of Germany, in the drcle

of Fraocooia, and Ihe capital of the county of IDo–

neburgh: E. long 10° 27', aod N.lat. 50°

Q'.

HENOTlCON, in church-hiflory, ademe or edia of

the emperor Zeno. made at Cooflaolinople, io the

year 482, by whicb he pretended

recoocile all

pani~

uoder one faith.

is generally agreed thal Peter,

palriarch of Alexandria, and Acadus, patriarch of

Conflantinople, were the authon of this deme, aod

thal their defign wal to compliment the emperor wilh

a right of pre[cribing regulalions in mallers of faith.

The emperor, by Ibis decree, arrogated to himfelf the

righ! of being head of the church. Pope Simplicius,

however, io Ihe year 483, condemoed the benoticoD,

aod ciled Acacius, lhe ·cflief promoter of il,

appear

before him at Rome

but it was nOI eotirely fupprelJ'ed

lill the year 518.

HENR1CO, a county nf lhe colon1 ofVirgioia, in North

America.

HENRY, OrCAPE-HENRV, the [outh cape ofVirginia,

at the enlrance of

Cherep~ak-bay :

loog. 74°

SO',

N. lat· 37°.

HEPARSULPHuRlS,OrLtVEROFSULPHUR. See CHE–

MI STRT .

HEPATIC, in medicine and anatomy, aoy Ihing beloOg–

iog to the.Iiver.

HEPATICA, in botany. See ANEMONE,

HEPATITIS, io medicioe. Sce MEnlcINE.

HEPATUS.