Hesperidin
or HESPERIDINE, in chemistry, C22H26012, a glucoside extracted from dry, unripe bitter oranges. HESPERUS (hes'pe-rus), the Greek name for Venus as the evening star.
Hence the Alexandrian grammarians called Italy, and sometimes all western Europe, Hesperia, "The Western land."
HESSE (hes), or HESSEN (hes'sen), anciently a territory of Germany; mainly between the Neckar, Rhine, Main, Lahn, and Fulda rivers. After various fortunes it was ruled by the landgrave Philip I., who succeeded in 1509, and at his death in 1567 divided his dominions among his four sons. The death of two of these, however, reunited the territories in part, so that there remained only the two main divisions of Hesse-Cassel and Hesse-Darmstadt, the latter now known simply as Hesse.