GET 



■'the Itloi-anJ that of the Tyi'as, in whkh the army of Da- 

 rius, in its march agaiiift the Scythians, was in clang?r of j -c- 

 lilhiii^ for want of water. Phny (1- iv. c. ii.) fays, that 

 ihoy inhabited that detlivity of Mount Hxmus whidi is 

 turned towards the Danube. Under tlic empire of Trajan, 

 the Gct.E were fubjeCted to the Roman dominion. Herodo- 

 tus fpeaks of Zamolxia as the legiflator of the Gets, and he 

 fays that from him they derived the dogma of the foul's im- 

 nuirtahty ; and Trajan attributed to this principle the intre- 

 pidity with wl'.ich they encountered death in the perils of war. 

 The Get:E podelTed only a fmall fpace along the coaft, but 

 their territory extended to a coiifiderable diftance in the inte- 

 rior of the country. Thofe who inliabited the v.-efltrn part 

 in afcending the Danube, were called " Dacians ;" but thofe 

 who were more appropriately denominated Get;e, occupied 

 the eallern parts near tlie Euxine fea ; and thofe who inha- 

 bited the banks of tiie river Tyras, were called " Tyrige- 

 tes." They had all the fame language. Tliefe people 

 were continually intermixing themfelves with the iScythians, 

 Ballarna;, Sarmatians, Mcefians, andThracians. The Getx 

 were without doubt the fame people with thofe wlio were 

 called Goths, and whofe migrations were fo extenfive. See 

 GoTii.s. 



GE-TCHAO, a town of China, of the third rank, in 

 Chang-tong ; 27 miles E.S.E. of Lu. 



GETE, part of the country of the Eluts, in Chinefe 

 Tartary, fo called even to the time of Timur, is regarded 

 by fome geographers as the country of the ancient MaiTa- 

 getiE, towards tlie lakes of Palkati, Balkafli or Tengis, and 

 Zaiien. The contaifch, or great Khan, ufed chiefly to re- 

 fide at Harcas, or Erga, on the river Hi, which flows from 

 the S.E. into the lake of Balkafh. .See Jat.s. 



GETHSEMANE, in Scripture Geography, a village in 

 the mount of Olives, whither Jefus fometimes retired, 

 artd in a garden of which he endured his agony, and was 

 taken by Judas. Matt. xxvi. 36, &c. 



GETHYLLIS, in Botany, (-/li-SuX^i?. is an ancient 

 Greek name for fome fore of pot-herb of the onion-tribe, 

 and is therefore well-enough applied to this bulbous plant, 

 as it appears to be derived from yi^'j:, gaiety or joy, and 

 may allude to the beauty of its blofToms.) Thunb. Nov. 

 Gen. 13. Linn. Gen. 235. Suppl. 27. Schreb. 228. Willd. 

 Sp. PI. v. 2. 104. Mart. MiU. Dift. v. 2. Jufl". 54. (Papi- 

 ria ; Thunb Aft. Lund. p. I. feft. 2. 1 1 1.'* — Clafs and or- 

 der, Nexandria Monogv/iia. Nat. Ord. Spntbaceir, Linn. 

 Narcllfi, Jufl". 



Gen. Ch. Cnh none, except an obliquely truncated cylin- 

 drical ftieath. Cor. of one petal, fuperior ; tube very long, 

 thread-fhaped ; hmb widely fpreading, regular, in fix deep, 

 elliptie-cblong, equal fegments. Stam. Filaments fix, in- 

 ferted into the mouth of the tube, fliorter than the limb, 

 often divided ; anthers linear, vertical, rolled inwards, often 

 two to each filament. Pi/l. Germen inferior ; ftyle fimplc, 

 capillary, longer than the fl;amens ; ftigma capitate. Peric. 

 Berry chib-fliaped, obtufe, radical, feffile on the bulb itfelf, 

 fomewhat flefhy, of one cell. Seeds imbedded in pulp, glo- 

 bofc, fmooth, lying over each other in a triple feries. 



Efl". Ch. Corolla with a very long thread-fhaped tube ; 

 limb in fix deep fegments. Berry radical, club-fhaped, of 

 one cell. Seeds numerous. 



Obf. Linnxus, mifled by the occafional luxuriance of the 

 ftamens, placed this genus in the clafs Dodecandria. 



Four fpecies are defined in Willdcnow, befides his and 

 Jacquin's G. pUcatn, Hort. Schoenbr. v. j. 42. t. 80, 

 which is Hypvxii piicata of Linnaeus, and we are at a lofs 

 to difcover w'ly it is removed to GethyU'is, for which no rea- 

 fon i» given, nor docs the deftription in Jacquin fuggeft any, 



G E V 



except the length of the tube. The fruit, when known 

 muii: decide t'is q'.ielUon. 



G. cH'uiris, Linn. Supp. 198. Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. v. j. 

 41. t. 79, is a good example of the genus. The l/nUi is glo- 

 bofe, with a very ftrong tuberous bafe, and tliick fibres. 

 Stem none. Lea>oes k\Qra\, three or four inches high, linear, 

 obtufe, fringed, I'pirally twilled. Flower the height of the 

 leaves, greenifli-white, the fize of a daffodil. 



G. Jpiralh, Gawler in Curt. Mag. t. ic88, has a white 

 flower, externally purnliili, and very narrow, flat, fmooth 

 leaves. It is diftinguifhcd in that work from the original 

 fpecies G. afra, Linn. Sp. PI. 633. Herb. Linn, on tlie 

 aut!)ority of fome fpecimens and drawings of the late excel- 

 hnt Mr. MafTon, in the hands of Mef.rs Lee and Kennedy, 

 in v.hich both plants are well defined. According to this 

 authority, G. afra is faid to have properly twelve ilaraens. 

 Thunberg certainly contounded thefetvvo. 



All the fpecies of GethyU'is have the habit of a Colcklcumt 

 but the berry, faid to be very pleafantly fcented and well- 

 tailed, is their ilriking charaftcriftic. They are natives of 

 the Cape of Good Hope, rarely feen in our gardens, where 

 they do not eafily bloffoin. 



GEl'ONIA, a name given by Dr. Solandcr, and, as we 

 prefume, derived from ■j-i'i-j a rujlic, but of its application 

 in the prefent inftance we have no information. Roxb. Co- 

 rom.and. v. i. 61. (Calycopteris ; Lamarck Illullr. t. 357.) 

 — Clafs and oixler, Decaiulria Monogyiiia. Nat. Ord. Holo- 

 raceit, Linn. Ehagni, .luff. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth of one leaf, fuperior, deeply di- 

 vided into five equal, elliptical, obtufe, fpreading fegments, 

 permanent. Cor. none. Slant. Filaments ten, fliorter than 

 the calyx, iuferted in two rows into the lower part of its feg- 

 ments, capillary, creCl ; anthers incumbent, roundifii. P^. 

 Germen inferior, ovate, furrowed ; ftyle thread-fliaped, 

 (liortcr than the ftamens ; ftignia fimple. Perk, none, except 

 the cruft of the feed, which is ovate, furrowed, crowned 

 with the large withered calyx. Seed folitary, ovate. 



Efl. Ch. Calyx in five deep fegments, fuperior. Corolla 

 none. Seed coated, crowned witli the enlarged withered 

 calyx. 



1. G.JIoribunJa. Roxb. Corom. v. i. 61. t. 87 Native 



of forefts on the coaft of Coromandel, where it was firfl no- 

 ticed by Koenig, flowering in February and March. '1 lie 

 _^ftem is woody and chmbing, with long, round, leafy 

 branches, downy like the whole plant. Leaves oppofitc, 

 ftalked, ovate, acute, entire, about two inches long. Flowers 

 in axillary and terminal, compound leafy clufters, with op- 

 pofite ftalks, inodorous, greenifli-white. Seetl anA perma- 

 nent calyx of a rufty hue. — The natives call this flirub Ban- 

 dy-moorroodoodoo. 



We have no doubtof the propriety of Lamarck's fyncnym, 

 which our lasnented predeccfl'or, the Rev. Mr. Wood, not 

 knowing the Getonia, could fcarcely afcertain. (See Ca- 

 LVC'OPTEiti.s.) If we be right, the main branch in La- 

 marck's plate is diminiflied, the fcparate fruits only, and 

 permanent ftamens, being of the natural fizc. 



GETTYSBURGH, in Geography, a fmall poft-town of 

 America, in the ftate of Pennfylvania and Adams county, 

 iituated at the head of Rock creek, one of the head-watt ra 

 of the Monococy ; containing about 30 houfes ; 9 miles N. 

 of the Maiyland line, and 118 W. by S. from Philadel- 

 phia. 



GETZENDORFF, a town of Auftria, feated on the 

 river Raifenpach ; 12 miles S.E. of Vienna. 



GEVASI, a town of the Arabian Irak, ontheTigrifi; 

 95 miles S.E. of Bagdad. 



GEVAUDAN, a mountainous cotintry of France, fo' 



