GUS. 
Ameen. Acad. ¢. 8. 249.—Linn. ae Schreb. 474. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. 846. Mart. Mill. Dia. v. 2. 
Gertn. t. 138. i 
Juff. 326. Lamarck. 
opening by two pores 
7/?. Germen turbinate, depreifed, bordered 
the calyx, fomewhat umbilicated ; ftyle conical, 
very rt, permanent ; ftigmaobtufe. Perc. 
nearly globular, dry, of four, five or fix cells, 
with the remains of the calyx. Seeds feveral in each cell, 
horizontal, oblong, thick, angular, each attached by a 
thick folded ftalk. 
Eff. Ch. Calyx waved or toothed. 
Berry inferior, dry, of feveral cells. 
ftalked, ftyle fimple. oa 
1. G. augufla. Linn. Suppl. 
«  25o.+ € ° 
fix or eight. 
$s numerous, 
Petals 
Seed 
313. Pl. Surin. n. 87. Am 
Acad. v. 8. 259.- t. Pirigara_ tetrapetala ; Aubl. 
Guian. v. 1. 487. t. 192. Japarandiba; Mar ; 
f.1. Pif. Braf. 121. f. 2.) Calyx waved, {carcely toothed. 
of Surinam and Cayenne, 
Stem woody, branch 
or fomewhat obovate, 
ightly ferrated, nearly feffile; the 
whorled, the others alternate. The veins ftand 
nearly at right angles with the rib, and are connected by in- 
numerable reticulations. Flower-flalks terminal, or 
pestis serv much fhorter than the leaves, fimple, fingle- 
vered, with a pair of very fhort clafping bra¢teas about 
mi F; s very handfome, and i 
— broad, their petals white, veined 
I. 
but his book, and who doubtlefs muft have found no {mall 
his defcription fquare with that of 
s of 
river of 
us 
ferrated, {mooth, 
accent 
fpecimens, and fee no reafon to. ¢ 
pe name, which the younger Linnazus meant 
pt. ae 
ys 
- youth as well for his learning as for his perfonal and mentab 
t 
eeth. caverns of the earth, but 
g gentleman recog: 
and his bold 
be pte Artec much native el 
GUS 
Thefe magnificent plants, have not, to our’ know! 
» appeared, or at leaft have not been preferved in 
any garden, yet they are not too large to bloffom in our 
ftoves. - te 
GUSTAVUS I., 
in Biography, furnamed Ericfon, or 
Fafa, king 1 
of Sweden, born in 1490, was fon of Eric Vafa, 
and allied to the royal family. He was diftinguithed in his 
accomplifhments, and on the invafion of Sweden = 
Chriftiern II. in 1518, Guitavus was one of the fix hole 
tages whom he took back with him to D i 
gen. ric Banner, a Teelmg + 
compaffion for his fufferings, obtained leave to take him toa 
Here he attem 
engage the regency of the city in favour of the Swedes, bu 
they refufed to give countenance to a party then in the lowelt 
ate of humiliation. He foon found that the Danes werein 
queft of him,and was obliged to affume the habit and maii- 
ners of a peafant, and in this difguife he paffed through . 
Th 
fenators at Stockholm, in which he loft the greater f 
his friends and relations, plunged him into deeper 
. hope. . . . . 4 
within 
the finenefs of his linen led 
of vaptas pe labourers to. fufpeét that he be a perion 
rank in difguife. The rumour fpread, and a nei ‘hbour oid 
ized him, to ‘ae Aifbeltisnent, or an | 
univerfity friend. He im to become an aay 
of his houfe, but when Guftavus made him the confidar ig 
ais fri bicton nBepitebemger Beis 
the dark 
of 
oe eng, tie 
, as his lait refource, he 
es of his yranny of Chriftiern, that the - 
affembly inftantly otake uparms, and adopted 
