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GIB 



class and order. Natural order of Perso- 

 nalae Campanulaceae, Jussieu. Essential 

 character : calyx five-cleft, sitting on the 

 germ ; corolla incurved and recurved ; 

 capsule inferior, two-celled. There are 

 twelve species. 



GETHYLLIS, in botany, a genus of the 

 Hexandria Monogynia class and order. 

 Natural order of Spathacese. Narcissi, 

 Jussieu. Essential character : calyx none ; 

 corolla six-parted ; berry club-shaped ; 

 radicle, one-celled. There are four spe- 

 cies 



GEUM, in botany, English avens, or 

 herl) bennet, a genus of the. Icosandria Po- 

 ly gynia class and order. Natural order of 

 Senticosae. Rosacese, Jussieu. Essential 

 character : calyx ten-cleft ; petals five ; 

 seeds with a kneed awn. There are nine 

 species, natives of Europe and North 

 America ; seven belonging to North Ame- 

 rica. 



GHINIA, in botany, so named in me- 



mory of Lucas Ghini, a famous physician 

 and botanist of Bologna, a genus of the 

 Diandria Monogynia class and order. Na- 

 tural order of Personatae. Vitices, Jus- 

 sieu. Essential character : calyx five- 

 toothed, teeth acuminate ; corolla two- 

 lipped ; stamina four, with two barren an- 

 thers at the end of the shorter filaments ; 

 pericarpium a drupe containing four or 

 five celled nuts, with a seed in each cell. 

 There are two species. 



GIANT's cause-May, a vast collection of 

 a black kind of marie, called basaltes, in 

 the county of Antrim in Ireland. See 

 BASALTES, and STAFF A. 



GIBBOUS, in astronomy, a term used 

 in reference to the enlightened parts of 

 the moon, whilst she is moving from the 

 first quarter to the full, and from the full 

 to the last quarter : for all that time the 

 dark part appears horned, or falcated ; 

 and the light one hunched out, convex or 

 gibbous; 



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