GRi 
the obfervation of Haller, Hedwig, and moft other crypto- 
gamic botanifts. Mohr has it not in his li It isa ver 
elegant mofs, with a branched ftem, and narrow leaves, of a 
fine green, growing in fubalpine {prings, on a calcareous 
foil; in confequence of which it is found incrufted with mi- 
nute ftalactitical fragments, as white as fnow. e fruit- 
ip tem become immediately lateral, 
pecies. 
Dillenius, and the Rev H. vies has communicated it to 
from its original place of oe th. To him alfo we are 
“us 
obliged for the difcovery of G. cri paler 
aH Sp. Mufe. t..12. f. 1 
<rifpula ; edw. nele. 
. fea; though fince found by es phaiay | in Ireland and 
Suff e 
G. » Engl. Bot. t. 1644, not fo pagensetiecany 
sioretanee ‘there as:could have been wifhed, is confpicuous 
on its native ise aimee id its filky Se HS, afpedt, 
crifped, np 2 Asai The 
curved, but 
and rst s 
t. ; but 
this ray its 16 teeth approinated in pairs, an Pakitle 
{pecific mark, but the moffes are one ve fo yery 
of akin, that it decidedly can be no generic o 
G. nigrita, t. 1825, found in fandy ground in ates 
bears a moft fingular, round, dark- rs hal drooping ws 
Go Forferi, t. 2225, we are nearly perfuaded is Mnium 
eqntiteun; | t. 123 
; fs oma, t. 1135, ala 3 ade 
a genus, Conoflomum, “by Dr. Swartz i “pam s ae 
Journal, on account of the a aninied cohering fringe ; 
and the diftiné habit aap that of Bartramia, co onfirms 
7% rf 
the meafure antarCtie {pecies befides. 
G.. » Engl. Pah t. 1421, (the rofea of fome late 
forei authors, ) i is known by i tantifol pink ftalk, aed 
st ule, and very few short leave 
iS Picssonee t. ie (glacenagn longicollum ; Dicks. 
Crypt. fafc. 4. 4,.t. Q.) is a aveneY remarkable for 
eens oa Spleclian, 
Nature; 
but we spa admit the cai exotic Rage 
to this, and no 
road- 
branching fpecies, of which G. aecehas t. 1134, is a com- 
Britifh | 
eet ee - Sp. Mule. 41564, ga fy pA 
“ & 
GRI 
. Crypt. v. 3,t. 31 A, natives of Ger. 
ted teeth of their 
lefs beau. 
a cape on the E. coaft of 
N. lat. 58° 42'. W. long. 
. * OkImoLow, a town of Roe in the palatinate of 
Podolia; 46 miles N. N. W. of Kaminiec. 
GRIMROOS, a town of Hs a Brunfwick, on the river 
St. ee N. lat ong. 66" 1 
GRIMSAY, ¢ one ae Ne the sees : Be toed of Scotland, fitu- 
ated between North Uitt and Benbecula. It is a barren 
ifland, 2 miles longs and covered with heath. N. lat. Le ay 
ally cribrofa, Hedw 
many, are remarkable for the pertora 
crimfon fringe, which in the laft-mentioned are no 
tiful than curious. 
GRIMNESS, in Geography, 
3 ifland of South Ronald{ 
e of the 
ed ina ip Bag 
two bailifis, twelve aldermen, and thirty-fix burgeffes, The 
mayor and bailiffs hold feparate oer ; the former on Tuef. 
day, the latter on Friday, miby is diflant from Lon. 
n 170 pal contains i ows and 1524 "inhabitants ; 
has a weekly market on Weduefdays and two annual faite. 
ere were ek a monailery of sak: haw a convent of 
i ag asc ns, and a priory of Auguftine canons ; a 
anci moriumen's, removed from thele religious houfes, are. 
now p sri vary in St. James’s church. 
Grimiby had the honour of being the birth-place of that 
diftinguifhed prelate, g)r. John i Whigs “anaes of 
terbury, and a zealous afk and dif. 
i cae at gaan - 153 
pe pe Bigs aN furnith a Blown flow of vate, 
urface of the es but never overflowin, 
yp Ty 
os 
ie Beets 
nimsBy-C. 
ec from the 
