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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Garuleum—continued. 
G. pinnatifidum (pinnatifid). 
G. viscosum (clammy). _/l.-heads, ray-florets of a beautiful sky- 
blue; peduncles glandular and downy. Summer and autumn. 
i. lin. to l4in. long, Zin. broad, pinnately cleft nearly or quite 
to the midrib. h. lft. to 2ft. 1774. Plant minutely velvety. 
SyN. G. pinnatifidun. 
GAS-LIME. This contains small quantities of 
ammonia, also carbonate of lime, sulphate of lime, 
and sulphites of lime (combinations of quicklime and 
sulphuretted hydrogen), which are injurious to all forms 
of life, whether vegetable or animal, and therefore 
Gas-lime must be exposed to the air before applying to the 
soil, in order to oxidise these deleterious products and 
change them into sulphate of lime or gypsum. When 
used as an insecticide, it should be employed as fresh 
as possible. It will be found exceedingly beneficial if 
applied to soils affected by the disease known as Club- 
Root or Anbury in root crops and the Brassica family. 
In this case, it may be spread on the land in autumn 
and plonghed or dug in. From thirty to fifty bushels per 
acre may be used. 
GASTERIA. Perianth tubular, curved; tube dilated 
into a ball in the lower half, cylindrical in the upper ; 
segments small, ovate, sub-equal ; stamens six, hypogynons. 
One of the best known species is G. verrucosa (Fig. 405). 
A synonym of G, viscosum. 
Fic. 405. 
GASTERIA VERRUCOSA. 
To the species described on p. 54, Vol. II., the following 
should be added : 
G. fuscopunctata (fuscous-dotted). 1. in a simple raceme 14ft. 
to 2ft. long ; peduncle simple, 14ft. long. 7. twelve to twenty in 
a dense, multifarious rosette, stiffly erecto-patent, lanceolate, 
6in. to 12in. long, dull green, when old reddish-brown, with a few 
whitish and many brown spots. Leafy stem 2in. to 3in. long. 
1860. (B. M. 7549.) 
The following species have also been introduced during the last 
forty years, but they are rarely met with (some of them are in the 
Kew Collection): G. apicroides, G. cheilophylla, G. colubrina, 
G. dicta, G. eacelsa, G. gracilis, G. marmorata, G. pallescens, 
G. parvifolia, G. picta (SYN. G. formosa), G. planifolia, G. por- 
phyrophylla, G. variolosa. 
GASTONIA PALMATA. A synonym of Trevesia 
palmata (which see). 
GASTROCARPHA. 
(which see). 
GASTROCHILUS (from gusi/er, a belly, and cheilos, 
a lip: in allusion to the swollen lip). Orb. Scitaminee. 
A genus embracing about half-a-dozen species of stove, 
perennial or rarely annual herbs, natives of India and 
China, allied to Hedychiwm. Flowers solitary or spicate, 
often secund; calyx short, spathaceous; corolla-tube 
slender, the segments connivent, ascending; lateral 
staminodes petaloid, broader than the corolla-lobes; lip 
oblong, longer than the corolla segments, entire. Leaves 
oblong, acute. Leafy stem absent or present. Rootstock 
A synonym of Moscharia 
Gastrochilus—continued. 
wanting or creeping. The species introduced thrive in a 
sandy-loam compost, and may be propagated by division 
when new growth is commencing. 
G. albo-lutea (white and yellow). #1. smaller, having a flat, 
white lip, lined with bright yellow. /. oblong, 9in. long. Other- 
wise like G, longiflora. Andaman Islands, 1894. 
G. Curtisii (Curtis's). //. white, having a yellow lip with a red 
margin, disposed in a clusterin the sheathing bases of the leaves. 
l. stalked, nearly 2ft. long, hairy beneath. Rootstock fleshy. 
Malaya, 1894. Allied to G. lonyijlora. (B. M. 7363.) 
G. Jenkinsii (Jenkins's). A variety of G. longijlora. 
G. longiflora (long-flowered). /l. one or two in radical spikes ; 
corolla tube 3in. long, the white segments in. to lin. long; 
staminodes white; lip tinged with red and crisped on the 
incurved margins. July. /. about four in a tuft, 6in. to 12in. or 
more in length, cordate or cuneate at base; petioles long, erect, 
channelled. Sikkim Himalaya, 1843. Plant stemless. 
G. 1. Jenkinsii (Jenkins’s). 7. larger, of a purer white, the lip 
tipped with bright red. India, 1841. (B. M. 4010, under name 
of G. Jenkinsii.) 
G. Eee ee (very pretty). fl. white 
spikes 2in. to 3in. long, with imbricated bracts ; corolla segments 
4in. long; lip lin. long, tinged with pink. August. J. sessile or 
shortly petiolate, 4in. to 6in. Jong, oblong, caudate. Rootstock 
creeping, usually pee ducing a leafy stem 6in. to 12in. long. 
Tenasserim, &c., 1828, 
GASTROCHILUS (of Don). 
colabium (which see). 
GASTRODIA. Syns. Epiphanes (of Blume), Gamo- 
plexis. Flowers pedicellate, erect or nodding, in a rather 
lax raceme ; coluron elongated (except in G. Cunninghamii). 
Stem simple, sheathed with many scales. 
GASTROGLOTTIS. Inelnded 
(which see). 
GASTROMERIA. A synonym of Melasma (which 
see). 
wGASTROPACHA QUERCIFOLIA. See Lappet 
(3) Me 
GATEN or GATER TREE. 
guinea. 
GATHERER. An instrument fashioned in the form 
of the averruncator, or standard tree pruner, with a 
small net or bag attached to receive the frnuit when 
severed from the tree. Like the averruncator, it is made 
of various lengths to suit purchasers’ requirements, and is 
convenient to gather fruits where they are beyond the 
reach of the hand, or when a ladder would be likely to 
damage the trees. No instrument, however, equals the 
hand for fruit gathering. 
GAULTHERIA. The hardy sorts of Gaultheria berry 
much more freely if lifted and divided every fourth year 
or so. This especially applies to G. procumbens, which 
should, if possible, be shaded from the fierce mid-day sun, 
It is well adapted for planting as marginal lines to taller- 
growing subjects, especially in the American garden, and 
it forms an admirable carpet underneath such shrubs as 
the early-flowering Daphne Mezerewm when planted in 
beds on the turf. 
To the species described on p. 56, Vol. IT., the following 
should be added : 
G. discelor (two-coloured). A synonym of Diplycosia discolor. 
G. fragrans (fragrant). A synonym of G. fragrantissima, 
G. imsipida (insipid). jl. white; corolla ?in. long; raceme 
shorter than the leaves. j7r., pericarp white, edible but insipid. 
7. shortly petiolate, 2in, to 3in. long, ovate, acuminate, entire 
or serrulate, rounded and ciliated at base, strigose-pilose on the 
veins beneath (as well as the petioles and branchlets), . 2ft. 
to 3ft. Mexico, 1873. Half-hardy. (B. M. 6070.) 
G. nummularioides (Moneywort-like).* /. resembling those of 
the Lily of the Valley, but frequently tinged rosy-pink, axillary. 
Summer. fr. scarlet. i roundish, deep green, changing in 
autumn to dull rose, ciliated on the margins. Stenmis wiry, sub- 
prostrate. Himalayas, 1884. An ornamental, hardy evergreen, 
suitable for baskets. (G. C. n. s., xxii., p. 457; P. F. G. ii., p. 164, 
under name of G. nummularie.) 
G. odorata (scented). The correct name of G. scabra. 
G. serpyllifolia (Thyme-leaved). A synonym of Chiogenes 
hispidula. 
many in terminal 
Included under Sac- 
under 
Liparis 
See Cornus san- 
