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GLUTINOSITAS [gluten, glue, pafte] a 

 fpecies of Pubes, according to Linnaeus ; but 

 in what refpedl different in its fignification from 

 Vifcofitas, I am at a lofs to determine, unlefs 

 he intends that it fhould mean vifcofity in a 

 higher degree, covered with a ftiffer glue. 



GRAMINA, gralTes j one of the feven tribes, 

 or families, of the vegetable kingdom, accord- 

 ing to Linnseus, by whom it is thus chara£leri- 

 led : having the moft fimple leaves, an articu- 

 lated culmus, a glumofe calyx, and a fingle feed. 

 This family includes the feveral kinds of corn 

 as well as graffes. In Tournefort the gramma 

 (grafles only) make the 8th genus of the 3d 

 fe£lion in clafs xv. Graminum folia pecbribus is* 

 jumentis lata pafcua ; Semina minora avibusy ma- 

 jora hominibus cfculenta funt . 



Gramina, an order of plants in the Fragmenta 

 methodi natural^ of Linnsus. 



GRANULATA Radix [from granum, a 

 grain] granulated ; confifting of many httle 

 knobs attached by fmall firings, as in the 

 Saxifraga granulata, Thefe roots are alfo call- 

 ed aggregaia, 



GYMNOSPERMIA IVvfcm, mdus, naked, 

 & S5rejf««, feed] The firft order in the clafs 



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