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The author attempted to efcape, but, falling into the hands 

 of his purfuers, he was committed to the prifoii of Sl Mar- 

 guerite. It appears that he was not brought to trial, and that 

 he contrived to effect an efcape from prifon and the country, 

 hut upon the death of the regent he returned to France,where 

 he hved unmolelled. He died at his family feat of Anto- 

 niat in 1758. His works were collected in five vols. izmo. 

 ar'. J, xvitli liis own corrections, publidied the year after his de- 

 ceafe. They confiil chiefly of tragedies, operas, and mifcel- 

 laneous poems. The tragedies are moft eiteemed : they are 

 laid to be "artful in the contexture of the plot, and abounding 

 III interefting htuatious, but feebly written, and trite in Ian- 

 guageand fentiment." In his latter years he employed his 

 time on a Liftory of Portugal. In manners he had all the 

 rire and vanity of a Gafcon : he had few friends, and 

 iccais to have been more feared on account of his falirical 

 powers, than beloved for his virtues. 



Gp.asge, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in the pro- 

 vince of Dalecarlia ; 33 miles S S.W. of Falun. 



Grange, La, a cape on the N. coalt of the illand of Hif- 

 paniola. N. I?.t. 19' 55'. W. long. 72' 30'. This cape, with 

 Point de Dunes, forms the mouth of the bay of Monte 

 CiirifH, in the county of Stirling. 



Gr.vnge Point, a cape on the S. coaft of the Ifle of Wight. 

 N. lat. 50 38. W. long. I ly'. 



Gra.sge RivTi; a river of Upper Canada, which emp- 

 ties itfelf into a bay of the fame name on the N. fhore of 

 lake Superior, W. of the Cris. This river leads to Nipi- 

 gan, a place whicli formerly furnifhed the beft beaver and 

 martin, and was the farth.efl advanced poft of the French 

 t.'-aders, at the time when Great Britain conquered Canada. 



GRANGE A, in Botany, Adanfon, v. 2. 121. JufF. 

 184. Clafs and order, Syngenefia Polygam'ia-fupcrflua. Nat. 

 Ord. Compofitx difco'tdcx, Linn. Corymbif.ra, Juff. 



Gen. Ch. Common calyx imbricated, fpreading ; its fcales 

 oblong, obtufe. Cor. compound; the united florets of the dillc 

 very numerous, tubular, five -cleft, regular; females fewer, in 

 the circumference, tubular, three-cleft. Stam in the united 

 florets, filamicnts five, capillary, very fliort ; anthers united 

 into a cylinder, with five teeth. Pjji- Germen fmall ; ftyle 

 thread-.fhaped, the lengih of the flamens ; ftigma undivided 

 in the united florets, cluvcu in the female ones. Peric. none, 

 except the permanent calvx. .Jt-f^ folitary to both kinds of 

 florets, obovate, compreffed, crowned with a toothed bor- 

 der. Rcccbt hemifpherical, naked 



Efr. Ch. Receptacle hemifpherical, naked. Seed-crown 

 membranous, toothed. Caiyx imbricated, fpreading. Flo- 

 rets of the radius three-cleft. 



Wc have alluded to this genus under Eti!Ui-i.a, from 

 which it differs in having a crown to the feed, florets of the 

 radius thret-.kft, and fcales of the calyx obtufe. It moil 

 approaches Tanaceium in char.^fter, but is fufficicntly diitinft. 

 The following are the only fpecies we have been able certain- 

 ly to determine. 



I. G tnadcrafpatana. (Artcmifia maderafpatana ; I,inn. 

 Sp. PI. 1 190. Tanacetum .figyptiacum ; Jacq. Hort. 

 Vind V. 3. 46. t. 88. Ablinthium maderafpatanum, fcne- 

 cionisincani folio, corymbis folitariis in ramulorum falli- 

 gio fpcciolis ; Pluk. Amalth 3. t. 353. f. 3. A. minus 

 odoratum gangeticum, floribus chamicmcli folirariis e folio- 

 rum aiis ; Pluk. Almag. 2. Phyt. t i. f 2.) — Leaves finuat- 

 fd, fomevhat iyrate, hairy. Flower-tlalks elongated — Na- 

 tive of the Eait Indies. Root an.nual, tapering, branched. 

 iS/cmj procumbent, a fpan or more in lengLh, lubdivided, 

 leafy, downy. Le^rcs alternate, fcfiile, deeply piniiatifid, 

 in a ly.'ate form, and fmuated, clothed with foft whitifli 

 Lairs, their feg.T.ents rather rcundcJ. Floiuat yellow, 



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almoft globular, near half aa inch ia diameter, on axillary, 

 fohtary, fimple, hairy Aalks, half as long as the leaves. Lin- 

 nxus in both editions of Sp. PI. quotes Ph.ki.net, t. 357. 

 f. 3. Adanfon, his profeffed critic, feems to liave augment- 

 ed the error in copying Jiim, and cites t. 257. f. 3 ; which 

 has given us a great deal of trouble ; more efpeciJlly as we 

 have a plant from the Paris garden for Adanfon's Grargea, 

 which proves mppia integrifolia, Linn. Suppl. 389, and does 

 not anfwer to the character or habit of Grangta. Neverthe- 

 lefs, as it came with fuch authority, we have laboured in vain 

 to find any thing hkc it in Plukenet, and thought for a 

 while we had found it in t. 45 f. 3, which bears a rude re- 

 femblance to our fpccimen, but is Parthen'mm HyJleropl:orut. 

 Finally, Burmann's Spberantbus afrkaniu, Fl.Ind. t. 6o. 

 f. 2, which is not that of Linnms, and which Juffieu fuf- 

 pefts may be a Grangca, is not unlike this Htppia. If it be 

 our plant, his fufpicion is refuted. The lea-ves in our fpcci- 

 mtns are occafioiiaily undivided or Iyrate, more cut than in 

 Burmann's plate, and lefs fo than in Plukenet's t. 45. f. 3. 

 The calyx, however, which is well expreffed in the latter 

 for the Parthen'mm, does not accord with our's. 



2. G. minima. (Artcmifia minima ; Linn. Sp. PI. 1 1 90. 

 Burm. Ind. 1 77. t. 58. f. 3.) — Leaves w,.dge-lhaped, blunt- 

 ly toothed, fmooth. Flowers nearly fefTile. — Native of Chuia, 

 and the Eaft Indies. We received it in 1803, from the 

 ftove of the late right honourable Charles Grcville at 

 Paddlngton, where it was preferved rather for its rarity and 

 finguhuity than beauty. It is an annual plant, much 

 fmaller in all its parts than the foregoing, fmooth, prollrate, 

 of ahghtgreen colour. Flowers the lize of a fmall pea, 

 axillary, nearly feflile, whitilh, fometimes with a purple 

 tinge. Their llructure is extremely minute. 



We fcruple to admit Ethulia divaricata into this genus, 

 though fomewhat fimilar in habit, becaufe of its naked 

 feed, and Iharp calvx. See Ethui.i.\. 



GRANGEMOUTH, in Geography, a village of Scot- 

 land, of conliderable extent, founded by lir Lawrence Dun- 

 das, upon the angle formed by the jundtioa of the river 

 Carron and the canal. It dclerves mention as a place of 

 confiderable trade. Veffels bring into tliis port timber, 

 hemp, flax, deals, and iron, from the Baltic, Norway, and 

 Sweden, and grain from foreign markets, as well as from 

 the coalls of England and Scotland. The trade to Lon- 

 don is carried on by the Carron (hipping company ; 3 mile» 

 E.N.E. of Falkirk. 



GRANGERIA, in Botany, fo named by Commcrfon 

 in memory of M. Granger, a furgeon, who travelled into 

 Egypt and Judea between the years 1 730 and 1736, from 

 whence he fent numerous feeds to enrich the botanic garden 

 at Paris. He publifhed, in 1745, in l2mo, Rel.iiicn du 

 voyage fait en Egypte en 1 730, according to Hallcr, who 

 mentions him as " not a trilling man, though he touched but 

 nightly upnn botany. He greatly depreciates the wonders 

 and fertility of Egypt."- .luff. 340. Lamarck. Illuilr. 

 t. 427 Clafs and order, Icofandria jHoncgynia. Nat Ord. 

 Potnacc\T, Linn. Rcjacea, Juff. 



Gen.Ch. Gal Perianth inferior, of one leaf, btll-(hap>*d, 

 with five ovate, acute, permanent fegments. Cor. Petals 

 five, roundilh, fcarcely longer than the calyx, iufertcd into 

 its rim. Stam. Filaments fifteen, awl-fliaped, longer than 

 t''e petals, inferted into the calyx ; anthers roundilh. Pijl. 

 Germen fuperior, obo\-ate, wooly ; liylc one, thread- 

 (liaped ; (ligma obtufe. Peric. Drupa obtufe, lomewhat 

 triangular. Seed. Nut triangular, of one cell. 



Etl". Cli.C;ilyx live cleft, inferior. Petals live. Cerinca 

 woolly. Drupa with a triangular nut. 



I, G . lu.\ifol:a. — Auee, native of the Iflc dc Bourbon, 



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