GRI 
Sloane Jam. v, 2. 122. t. 216, and 217, f.1, 2.)—Native 
of allthe hotteit parts of the Weil Indies, in low moift or 
watery places. Frequent in many places in Jamaica. Stoane, 
rowne. 
ow the leaves, 
They come forth in the 
ovate, with eight furrows, as. big a 
apparently from mifunderitanding 
a 
Browne’s defcription, attributes the furrows to. the nut, | 
Swartz's defcription, 
accompanied by a fpecimen, has enabled us, we truft, to give 
a more correcé account of the charaéters and affinities of this 
little known genus than has hitherto appeared. Its relation- 
fhip to Eugenia, Barringtonia, &c. notwithitanding the feflile 
ftigma, feems much more certain than to Juffieu’s Guii- 
one of the five diftricts of the province of Vologda, fituated 
ona river falling into the Sukkona; 40 miles S.S.E. of 
Vologda. N. lat. 58° 36’. E. long. 40° 44's 
ALDI, Marruew, furnamed Mofa, in Bio- 
> 
5 the profeffion of the law. In 1548 he opened a fchool of 
law at Padua, where he taught with great reputation. In 
1553, having imbibed the principles of the reformation, he 
was obliged to withdraw fecretly from that city; and having 
wandered about from place to place, he was at length i 
troduced to Calvia in G 
GRI 
prolong life; on which account it is affigned as a phyfical 
caufe for the faiting praCtifed ameng the se aa The in- 
ke no pains to provide themfelves 
food, but alfo refufe it when laid before them. Vide 
Mem. Acad. Infcript. tom. v feq. This paffion 
as been found to leflen perfpiration ard urine. 
M, in Botany, ypinrovy a fynonym of the 
h 
rom Geranium, on account of the leaves, which 
have certainly a refemblance to fome umbelliferous plants,. 
Linn. Gen. 578, 
though more to the leaves of an Artemifia, 
Sp. Pl. v. 2. 771. Mart. Mill. 
Schreb. 311. i 
it | ee es 
Gertn. t. 36. ( 
Clafs and order, 
i G 
nales; Jinn. 
Lamarck. Did. v. 3.45. I 
Geranium; Juff. 269." Cavan. Diff, 194.) 
Decandria Pentagynia. 
erani 
acute, equal, permanent fegments; its bafe flat. 
ular, of five large, saa a obovate, feflile 
attenuated at their bafe. Nectary of oblong glands, 
furrounding the germen, and united into a ttle crown, 
Siam. Filam 
thers ovate-oblong, verfatile, emarginate at each end. 
Germens five, 
ere 
picion of being addiéted to the Unitarian fyftem, that ftamens; ftyles none. except the points of t ; 
nifoataes refufed him his fociety unlefs he would clear him- ftigmas caren: ‘ ye Peri : ‘Capfales bre ‘oblose: 
felf of the charge ; not being able to do this, he was ordered pointed, hard. Seeds folitary ? oblong. 
depart oe e city, and the recent fate of the excellent ~ Eff. Ch. Calyx deeply five-cleft. Petals five. Ne@ari- 
taken, as they were the refult 
himfelf had excited. Gribaldi was 
. where he was chofen profeffor, till the fpirit of perfecution 
impelled him to fi i i 
of Gribaldi was not las fincere, as an evidence of 
which he afforded an afylum to pe ented Gentilis, for 
which he would probably have fu ered bac had not 
f > as ith rue. ‘ . ecu 
the 
death interpofed between him and 
GRIBANE, in Goograp » a town of Canada, on the “es 
ules N.E. of bec 
river St: Lawrence ; 30 
_GRICANE, a town of Moldavia 3 20 miles N. of 
tee a term ufed by country perfons for a young 
GRICENESS, in Geography, a cape on the E. coalt of 
the iland of Stronta,” Naat og°9. We tone oe 
ato 5 - Afr. fo; See 
- foliis tenuiffimé diffeGtis, fore eget ful 
i Goo 
Hees 
und the germen, Fila. 
peinted, with folitary 
Obf. Linnzus doubts whether there may not be fome 
fexual difference betw. 
abortion of the piftils. — 
cranium, but wants the beak o 
thofe awns of the capfules fo remarkable in that, as well as 
in Lrodium and Pelargonium. 
See GERANIA, 
Only one fpecies is known, Piece — 
G. tenui olium. Linn. Gen. 578. Lamarck. DiG. v. 3 
45. (G. laciniatum; Gertn, v. 1. 180. Geranium aa 
tefcens incanum, foliis multifidis, flor 
own. The latter are alternate, repeatedly forked, an inc 
or two in length, their fegments narrow, oe nd ac 
Flowers larger than a common mallow, yellow, on lon 
fimple, folitary, Jateral ftalks; the petals hate toothed, 
Jagged. They are very handfome, ‘and their coleur 
in this tribe. 
amarek prefumes too much on Jolin Burmann’s accuracy 
. whea 
Es 
OF 
The. 
. Cal. Perianth of one leaf, inferior, in five deep, 
ents ten, thread-fhaped, rather rigid, equal, . 
permanent, the length of the calyx, or rather fhorter ; an-. 
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