it ONL 
fp ft { a ‘ 
The G. ga ceri may I 1 
and woods. e with paeple e fowen,} bas downy pr 
2 } a 1 
‘Th f th ue, are wrinkled and divided deepl y 
into many parts or tee ic 
blue flowers, are long an 
h. They. 
hi 2 » have a flower with a single cup, zc 
0 aves. Corolla of five petals; ten stamens alternately 
longer and shorter; one pointal, = ted by fi ran 
ruit, five dry berries furnished with a bill, each, co ontaining 
a single seed, crown it — or awn 
Spiral ge when the seed beco: ripe, The root, t, whic h is 
the part —- medicinally, i week generally ja poe knotty, 
blackish ith a roughish taste, and 
aromati: 
emi 
Hemtok-tose, and Musk Crane’s Bill, of this genus, have 
but five stamen: 
eneral ‘eiualbiotes of the Pelargonium, is a Perianth, 
deep, 
inferior, in five long, permanent segments, the upper- 
ted at the base-into a nectariferous tube, runnin 
down the flower-stalk als five, irregular, oblong, spread- 
ing, longer than the cal Filaments ten, meee three of 
them, ly five. Fruit beaked, of fiv grega 
—* each tipped with a long spiral awn, bearded on the 
s 
e foliage of the ditierent species is too varied and 
multifarious for sete wine ’ _ well known to require it. 
will therefore take our lea 
Genteel asin 
With a leaf for all that come. Hunt. 
GILLY FLOWER. 
CHEIRANTHUS INCANUS. 
Class 15,—TETRADYNAMIA, Order.—sILIQuosa. 
Nat. Ord. Linn. » Ord. Juss. 
SILIQUOSE. CRUCIFER EE. 
Cheiranthus, from the Arabic keiri, altered by Linnzus into 
a name with a = ek form, from the Greek cHErrR, a hand, and 
ANTHOS, a flow 
<a pees hie hoary white of its branch 
Uy-flower, either sy hati from se fear: or from the 
Bre giroflee.—(See Johnson.) 
In July come sebeties: of all varieties. Bacon. 
The Gilly-flower is a native of the sea-coast in France and 
ain. ee has produced numerons varieties ; the prin- 
Sp 
cipal ones Queen’s. stock gilly-flower, with bright red o 
carmine colored flowers, ; and sing phon stock, with large 
purple flowers while stocn 1 th varle- 
ties, as the varieg. gated stock, e 
The root perennial, iaiaes biennial. Stem, from fiftee 
t eighteen in nche s hi igh, =e ead, hoa ot Papen 8, amaeel; 
long, soft Flo 8, sweet-scen nted, 
four peta s 
claws, length of the ca lyx. The e calyr, a 
The stock Gilly-flower, and ee are of the same 
genus, 
Fair is the gilly-flow’r of gardens gweet, 
is the marigold, for pottage meet. ‘ 
And lavish stock, that scents the garden round. Thomson. 
GOLDEN ROD; or, VIRGA AUREA. 
SOLIDAGO 
Class 19.—SYNGENESIA. Order.—POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
Nat. Ord. Linn. 
COMPOSIT® DISCOIDEX. 
fesse from solide, to make firm, and particularly to heal 
wound. From its reputed efficacy in healing wounds, and 
ROS : 
es 
Se 
a 
other medicinal properties, it ranked among the most expensive 
drugs, about the get of the sixteenth century, though not 
much in sing at in m rn times. 
Fifty-one American n species ha ve been rtained. There 
is but one fauliaeaben to Great Britain, but +t this is subject to 
many varieties. They are all perennial ee ig herbaceous. 
The flowers yellow, with very few exceptio 
“In golden armor glorious to behold.” 
Several species of the Tree Golden am haye been brought 
from St. Helena, with white i hewihe 
vo rhe shines the silver moon one-half Sa bright, 
rough the transparent bosom of the deep.” 
The name ‘Golden Roi, or Virga Aurea,” suggested the 
a as well as the illustrations attached | to the flower ; as 
bi Le G endre tells us, that in the Fake race of the French 
kings, the aceptre was a go olden rod, a most always of the same 
ght with t ead peat at one pinch i 
ier.” The sceptre i is an ensign of royalty, of greate 
tiquity than the crown. 
From various passages of ancient writers, it may be inferred, 
that both princes, and individuals of hig’ arried 
tristenta OF thely at 
i m 
Ulysses, indignant at the seditious and unofficer-like conduct 
of Thersites, “struck him with what he chanced to have in his 
hand— 
“He said, and cowering as the dastard bends, 
The weighty sceptre on his back descends. 
sceptre, is from t k api sometimes 
ry’s famous Caduce, or wand, oe called Virga. That 
and, which was supposed to posse e power of deciding 
controv esha. composing paceman rising the dead, ete. 
fying good conduct, —_— and pros peri 
power, the two serpents, prudence, the wings; diligence. For 
a farther account of | ng see the note on Filbert. 
GRAPE VINE. 
VITIS VINIFERA. 
Class 5.—-PENTANDRIA. 
‘at. Ord. Linn. 
HEDERACER. v 
Vitis, a vine, usually derived from vieo, to bind with twigs, 
to hoop, to , to tie up—in allusion usion to the flexibility of its 
branches. “ De Theis traces it to the Celtic Gwid, a tree or 
shrub, ing the chief, or best of trees. Gwin, i 
for A ‘ ‘ 
enough ‘the Greek word te wipw ornos, Latin Vinum, English 
—Rees’s 
—— name Vinifera, L., is from Vinea,a vine, or 
h otof bh. cripe. and 
isentnas jon bt a cluster or bunch. Welsh grab, a earth 
agrape. French grappe de raisin, a gp septal weg eglagey 
oo the god of wine, who first taught the use of the 
‘oct te Sate peep ear adplearanargtni 
The fig-tree, ivy, and yew-tree, were also sacred to him. 
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