GUN re GUN 
at Copenhagen, preacher at Herlufsholm, and leéturer rious in fize, but ufually a {pan wide, kidney-fhaped, waved, 
in theology and the Hebrew language in the public fchool toothed, or fharply crenate, marked with numerous bran sa 
of that place. Shortly after this, he was ordained prieft at ing radiating ribs, cut away to the two main fide-ribs at the 
ee, and in 1758 was sprouted by his majeity Fre- e with a curved finus, finely downy on both fides, paler 
deric V. bifhop of Drontheim. He was the founder of the sae rather harfh to the touch beneath. lower-ftalk radical, 
royal Gs fociety at Drontheim, of which he was ele&t- comprefied, naked, but downy in the lower part, a foot or 
ed vice-prefident, and in the 'Tranfa€tions of which he publifh- eighteen inches high, bearing a compound bunch of innu- 
ed feveral curious and ufeful papers. He was a zealous ftu- yeiege {mall greenifh fowers, accompanied by linear brac- 
i tea 
he gave the name of Gunnera (which fee) to a plant in his 2 ee feabra.. Ruiz and Pavon. FI. Peruv. v. I. 29. 
yi He was enrolled among the members of the acade- t. 44. f. a. f G. chilenfis ; Lamarck. Did. v. ae 
mies of Stockholm, Copenhagen, and other learned focie- Ss fi sept je Patke anapodophylli folio ; Feuill Voy. 
ties. His papers in the firft three volumes of the Tranfac- v. 74k 30 Qo.) Leaves palmate, deck cheeks very har 
tions of the fociety of Drontheim, relate chiefly to fubjeéts tailer than the SS oeg flalk. All the flalks prickly.— 
in natural hiftory. In 1766, he publifhed * Flora Nor- Native of watery marfhy places in Chili and Peru, commu- 
vege” part I, containing 314 {pe nis of plants, with fome nicated by the late Abbé Cavanilles. Much larger than the» 
w fuci. To each are added the medical and aftronomical ites and sel pcoag ae ts lobed leaves, which are 
u See the next article. : extremely r rough on the r fide with minute callous 
poeRA, in Botany, fo named by Linnzeus in com- points, as well as befpr inlet on bet fides with fhort hairs. 
pliment to Dr. John E Erneft Gunner, bifhop of Drontheim, The falks, both of the aves and flowe ers, are befet with 
in Norway, the learned and laborious author of the Flora feattered prominent prickles, and the latter are much the 
Norvegica, i in two parts, folio, with twelve plates, publifhed loweft. The bunch of flowers is a fpan long, very denfe and’ 
at Drontheim and Copenhagen, in 1776 and 1772. The thickly branched. Feuillée fays this plant is of a cooling 
number of f{pecies it contains is 1118. The author. died in quality, and that a decoétion of its leaves is taken for 
1773, aged. 55.—Linn. Meat: 16. Schreb. 607. Willd. that purpofe in hot weather oe the ftalks of the leaves are 
‘Sp. Ply. 4.148. Vahl. Enum. v. 1. 308. - “Mart. Mill. peeled and eaten, He found their flavour fweetifh and 
Did. v. 2. Jul. 405. Lamarck. Illuftr. t. 801. (Mifan- agreeable. The root is ufed for dyeing black, and for tan- 
dra; Jufl. 405.)—Clafs and order, Gynandria Diandria, ning, which proves its altringent quality. 
Linn. Diandria Digynia, Vahl. Nat. Ord. Scabride, Linn. 3. G. plicata. Vahl. Enum, y. 1. 309. 
Unie ahs G. magellanica ; Lamarck. Diét. v. 3. 61. at. t. far. 
h. Cal. Catkin wages its feales of one leaf, firs f. 2. ifandra ; Herb. Commerf. Juff. 405.)—Leaves. 
,. briftle-thape e length of the flowers, per- kidney-fhaped, eae plaited, {moeth and naked, taller 
hots Perianth none, oe the apubie-spothed sae - than the fruit-bearing ftalk. Flowers dioecious, piel a 
the feed. Cor, none. Stam. Filaments two, very fhort by Commerfon in the ftraits of Magellan. Mr. Menzies 
polite, ftanding on the fides of the germen, on ie patie of brought it from Staten Land, near Cape Horn. Much 
its teeth ; ‘anthers oblong. Pif. Germen ovate, with two {maller than either of the foregoing. The root is creeping, 
teeth at the top; ityles two, awl-fhaped, fhort, hairy, be- with long, thick, fimple, downy fibres. Leaves an inch or 
eta _the teeth of the germen; ftigmas fimple. Peric. two wide, on hai airy ftalks, bluntly aac fearcely waved, 
Seed one, ovate, coated with the perianth-like cruft. many- ‘ribbed, plaited, very fmooth, except a few diestered 
tawny briftles onthe ribs beneath. Male flowers in a branch- 
roe Calyx of two teeth, fuperior. Corolla none. ed loofe bunch, on a folitary lender hairy ftalk, taller than 
Seed with oor coat, crowned hy the calyx. the leaves ; ence ones on a feparate plant, in a dente: ovate, 
ied b ad memb 
 Lbeets downy, permanent. Fruit globofe, red. 
Ge is “a u UNNERS, officers of the Tower “and other garrifons,. 
placed ib Duad as as _ both organs reeabeall whofe yi it is to manage and look after the ordnance: 
i the fame flower, With: Gynandria it does not feem wll mounted on the lines and batteries, which are all fixed and’ 
fie cord. We fhould parler confidering its affinities, pre- ready with cartouches and ball, for fervice, on the’ fhortett: 
“ge it to have a real inferior calyx, which in. eg jae warning. 
cee ; hey carry a field-ftaff, and a large powder: horn in a 
firing over the left fhoulder ;. in which equipage they march 
by the 
fat age in the Ariillery, is she fecond rank, of ae 
ui : 
_ by fome ae theoretical botanift. men in the royal regiment of art 
s here reatly mifapplied. Gunner of a fbip of ee | is an officer appointed to take* 
Be ee 121. Thunb. Cap. v. 1. charge of the artillery and ammunition aboard ; to obferve. 
. ; Burm. Prod. Cap. 26. that the former. are kept in a ‘and fitted with tackle and: 
other furniture, and to teach the failors the exercife of the 
seta tae Pluk. Phyt. cannon: bess is aflifted bya mate, &c. 
po eae waved, toothed, finely Gunner. of Engla ajrer, is an 1 officer: appointed to 
er than | = frat bean eeyigeme AR the Soe teach and i int uét all fuch as dete to learn the art of 
Found 2 ab nery to adminifter to Bet! fcholar an oath; wl ‘hk. 
bei the duty of. a egi: , obliges him not to ferve any 
foreign prince or ftate eithon t leave ; nor to teach the art. — 
; ae to any but fuch as have t vaken the faid oath §; 4 
