GRO. 
calyx, and inferted into its bafe. Stam. Filaments five, the 
length of the petals, inferted alternately with them into the 
fe of the calyx, awl-fhaped, fringed, approximated with 
the petals into a tubular pofition; anthers ere¢t, heart- 
F 
lindrical, the length of the filaments; ftigma capitate, un- 
divided. Peric. Berry dry, roundifh, five-cornered, coloured, 
crowned with the calyx, of one cell. Seed folitary, roundifh, 
ee 
Eff. Ch. Petals five, inferted, between the flamens, into 
the bafe of the bell-fhaped calyx. Berry dry, five-cornered, 
inferior, with one feed. 
1. G. feandens. Linn. Sp. Pl. 292. Mant. 343. Jacq. 
Coll. v. 3.197. Ic. Rar. t. 338. (G.fcandens lappacea, 
— fronde ; Mart. Cent. go. t. 40.)—Gathered by 
‘more vifible in the copy of Houfton’s figure than in the ori- 
ginal, nor it exift in nature. : 
GRONOVIUS, Joun Frepenic, in Biography, was born 
at Hamburgh in 1611. He received a learned education, and 
died in that city in 1672. He was author of « A Differta- 
tion on the Sylvz of Statins,’’ and of three books of « Ob- 
lerva ’* containing corrections and explanations of many 
Paflages of the ancients. In 1656 he publithed “« A T'rea- 
tife on the Sefterce,”” which was afterwards reprinted at 
Leyden with the title De Vetere Pecunia.”? Of the Clafz 
fics, he edited Plautis, Salut, Livy, Seneca, Pliny, Quin- 
tilian, and Aulus Gellius. Moreri. = 
. Gronovius, James, fon of the preceding, was born at 
Deventer in 1645, and, at an ear period, was initiated into 
e fhe the i a ye Ss 
t of knowledge, 
grefs. In 1688 he came to England, where he contracted | 
an mtimacy with the mod leamed men in the two univerfi. 
> and in the He afterwards went into’France 
E ceompanied the ambaffador 
__ jn 1756, leaving behind him a great charmer for earns 
_ but he was apt to treat thofe aes differed from him, howe 
GRO 
Mela, Aul. Gellius, Cicero, Ammianus Mareellinus, Qe. 
Curtius, Suetonius, Phedrus, Arrian, Minut. Felix, He 
lumes folio, and a Latin verfion of “ Agoftini on Ancient 
s,"? ; 
Gem 
G 
of confiderable learning, was born, we prefume in Holland, 
in16g0. He took his do€tor’s degree at Leyden in 1719, 
on which occalion he publithed a differtation upon Camphor, — 
of the natural hiftory and preparation of which, he gives 
much new information, properly diftinguifhing between the 
camphor of Japan, and of Borneo, a fu ject concerni 
which little was known before his-time, and which is ftill © 
far from being exhaufted. (See Campuor.) He fettledat — 
Leyden, and became one of the chief magiftrates. He — 
Oa hoe ae ee ee Res en ae yee a ee 
Van Royen, as principally anxious to increafe their col- 4 
cimens of Virginian plants, which he, with the affiftance of | 
Linnzus, then refident in i 
paring when he died. ‘This laft being afterwards incorpo 
rated with the two former, the whole was publithed in quarto” 
by his fon in 1762. a 
In.1755 came outhis Flora Orientalis, in Svo., the ma- 
terials of which were afforded by the -very magnificent: here 
barium of Rauwolf, colle&ed in his travels in the Eait 
during the years 1573, 1 574 and 1575, and which, by 
vour of queen Chriftina of Sweden 
whofe death it was purcl 
den, w re, if not recently removed 
z 
é 
ears before, are not adopted, 
appear to have ufed this publication. 
whom he furnifhed wich numero Speciaens of Att 
loath fore ech a numerous Specimens af Ame 
plants fent by Clayton ton, and with whom he conferred on 
