a market-town of Norfolk, twenty miles south-west of Norwich.

HERMÆ, among antiquarians, statues of the god Mercury, made of marble, and sometimes of brass, without arms or feet, and set up by the Greeks and Romans in the crossways.

HERMÆA, in antiquity, ancient Greek festivals, in honour of the god Hermes or Mercury.

HERMANIA, in botany, a genus of the monadelphia pentandria clas. It has but one stylus; the capsule has five cells; and the petals are semitubular at the base. There are nine species, none of them natives of Britain.