GR Ei * 
Secrion II. 
Follicle woody, roundifh, pointed with only the bafe of 
ps ftyle. Seed fistotnied on all fides with a broadifh 
ing. 
peepee Ay (from xv«2o:, a circle, and wlepovy a wing. ) 
Of this fe@tion there are eight {fpecies. They agree in the 
woody texture of their follicle with our Conchium, (which 
= but differ in the cell being central, not excentric, as 
as in the circular wing of the feeds. ey are all tro- 
pical plants, various in their leaves, which are either pinnate, 
trifid, eis et, flat, or cylindrical. -Flowers racemofe. — 
Exampl es 
G. helio wes ‘‘ Leaves pinnate or bipinnate, {mooth ; 
their pinne r fomewhat linear; the lowermo 
chlo ng o 
‘ftalked. , Cluiters disided, erect. Corolla and piftil very 
mooth, 
G fioides. * Leaves entire, {word-fhaped, flat, 
eee {mooth, as well as the branches. Follicles obovate; 
wi 
G. lorea.. “ Leaves cylindrical, pendulous, = long. 
Stigma quadrangular, forming a truncated pyramid.’’—The 
ge of this has not been feen by Mr. Brown. 
*¢ Leaves fatewolati, —— ae 
fingle-ribbed, veiny. ers elongated, 
Follicles thickened and gibbo us.” 
This laft is a fort of conneétin ng link between the vee 
terous Grevillee and Conchium, the Hakea of Mr. Brown. 
GREVIN, Janus, in Biography, a poet and phyfician, 
di 
gibbofa 
Ligh! downy, fs 
was born at Clermont in 1538. He was very early. diftin- 
gui by his knowledge of langua pages, phalofophy, and 
the belles lettres, and aftonifhed the people of Paris, 
stiri 0 
His disinige 
rthe 
eater 
ifhed 
"GREUSSEN, in Geography, a town of yrabeet in 
the county of sincbherstiead 16 miles N. of Erfurt. N. 
1° 3. 
Jat. 51° E. lon “ae 
GRE aphy, the firft and moft 
univerfal Tere of this grcid 
her. Obadiah G 
birth is s not mentioned. He was bro he wpa prebyterian 
re of * 
his father havi 
netaiae 
‘He fettled fir 
there in 1664, when, as 
informs us in 
firit direéted his shoughes to rhe fubject of that work, “upon 
reading some of the many and curious Sea “learned. 
men, in the 1 bodies of animals. 
‘of them came at firft out of the the 
ore the contrivances of t 
mene 
© his Anatomy of Plants, he . 
pet vite 
— faid. in his heart there 
$ 
GRE 
eve fide the leaf which the beft ogo had left bare and 
mpty.’’—Fo rds h 
our years afterwa onfulted his brother- 
Me Dr. Henry Sampfon, who encouraged h im to go on, 
by pointing out a paflage in Gliffon’s book de Hepate, 
chap. 1, in which the anatomy of plants is hinted at as an 
unexplored, but very promifing, line of ftudy for a pradtical 
obferver—Dr. Grew’s firft eflay on this pei on com= 
municated to the Royal Society in 1670, by bifhop Wilkins, 
under the title of an Idea of a Philofophical Hiftory of 
Plants. 
deferved, being ordered 
invited to fettle in London, with which he complied in 1672, 
and in that year alfo, on the anceps of the fame 
cae divine, he became a fellow of the Royal Society. 
e was appointed fecretary in 1677, in ert capacity he 
publifhed the Philofophical ae te from Jan. 1677-8, 
to n the following year. o he was made an 
honorary fellow of the College of Phyficians —He is faid 
te have attained to confiderable practice in his profeffion, 
nor did his heterodox origin ‘epetvs him of the credit juftly 
due to his piety and philofophical merit, even in the worlt 
times. He lived indeed to fee various changes of opinions 
and profeffions, a sepree with the tranqui ity becoming a 
philofopher an an n, and died in 1711 
Dr. Grew’s hanens rag Vegetables, of Reats;: and of 
lsuewet! hae Sac forméd three feparate publications in 
vo. ere fubfequently collected into a folio volume, 
and publithed i in 1682, with 83 plates. In this work, truly 
original, though Malpighi had about the fame time, or rather 
ore, purfued the tae line of enquiry, fcarcely any nye 
relative to the vegetable anatomy is bh wie uched. 
the chara&ter of Grew to obferve every thing, gee Fa a sich 
pilofophia obferver, more aware of w a worth 
arking, be, in general eftimation, a fu canst character, 
chi: latter is more likely to fee through the falfe perros ge 
dazzling t e works of Grew are a ftorehoufe of 
facts, for the ufe of lefs original and more indolent authors. 
Th fel dom require correction, except where Saget is in- 
ze. 
conic ideas of t 
gee 1681 Dr. Grew publithed a folio go entitled 
Miifeum Regalis Societatis, or a catal he on ption of 
the Naturak - Artificial Rarities be Coline = ‘he Ro — 
nes ee preferved at Grefham 
fcientific and defcriptive catalogue, ne abe re 
to preceding writers. It is accompanied by “ the cue: 
rative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts begun, being feveral 
leétures read before the Royal Society in 1676.” ent 
ao plates illuftrate the firit part of this volume, and nine 
atter. 
owThe lateft publication of our author, we believe, 
« « Cof phia Sacra, or a Difeourle of the Univer a as 
it is the creature and kingdom of God.’? 
trious proof that it is the ook we 2 ae 
re fine or gto te On 
fot sepeat our jelintls wader 
~The works of Grew jello 
