GY? 
fined by thie. author as natives of the tr opical part of New 
Holland. A. /picata, ane obtufifolia, reepela, 7 
buxi arg —Foriter mentions 3 flellata, a native of Ton 
T: which has tern es eciahies ee a 
etek leaves ; we Jeandens, of Otaheité, “whofe leaves are 
a 3 and oppofit 
GYPZATTI, ia Ornitholrg », a divifion of the genus Palio, ; 
‘which fee. 
TONE, a name given by fome writers to the 
bfum, or foffil fubftance, of ‘hich the powder called 
ae of Paris is made by calcination. There are in many 
of Arabia vaft rocks of this ftone: it se ala- 
pits ae is ahead and of a more lax tex 
the remains of a monaltery, is built wholly of this ftone ; 
and when the fun fhines upon it, the walls give fuch a 
si that they dazzle the eyes; but the fo init of the 
one, aot ne the rednefs of the mortar, have confpired t 
very ruinous pile at ee, though oft no great 
Giusy, the {tones having fp mouldered away in the 
walls, and the foundations Failed. in many places. Phil. 
Tranf. N° Ne p- 150. 
GYPSINUM MeraLtvum, in the Natural Hiftory of the 
Ancients, a name ufed for the common /apis a aga of 
hich they often made windows as we do s. It was 
by fome called Cyprinum metallum, becaule cnbedly found 
See Pa- 
° 
| Orpsoctt, artifts who work in plafter. 
RADI-GRAMATICE 
-GYPSOP PHILA, ‘in Botany, 
from yolo-, lime, or plafler, mine 
and. Pirsw, to love, becaufe the 
lants of this genus chiefly 
b. 
‘fer a limeftone or calcareous foil. Linn. Gen. 224. Schre 
Hin, Ken Sp. Pl. v 62. Mart. Mill. Di&. v. 2. Ait 
Kew. vy. 2.84. Sm. Prod. . Gree. y. 1. hs Juff, 
“als and deder, Decades Disses. at. 
pyllei, Lina, Jul. 
Gea. Ch. Cal. Perianth fiferior; fimple, of one leaf, 
bell angular, with five ovate fegments, permanent. 
Cor, my ree ia Ghovate; obtufe, fearcely fpreading, a 
Filam ents ten, awl-fhaped, flightly pit 
a Sg roundifh. ie: Germen_ nearly e 5 
rat thread-thaped, feparate ; Ttigmas fimple. “Pye. 
fe, of one-cell, Res four or five valves united 
‘ numerous, rou 
BG Oh. Cals oF oie leaf, ball fhaped, angular. Pe- 
hn fixe, wie deaily entire. Capfule fuperior, roundifh, 
ie 
. Obt G. paniculata is dicecion us. This genus differs from 
Si aed in having no feales at the bafe pe calyx, and 
Saponaria in the ae form ef the calyx, and 
_thefe marks, and by the 
aponaria Vaccaria of 
. Grec. 
y enced hither in 
- been ate go fat 
when el” “to account for its having 
thet S cretica aid illyrica are alfo Gypfophile. 
no where a complete and c orreét account of the whole, 
© thall attempt it ; 
1. Pasa P “Piad. Fl. ‘Gree. n. 946. (Sa naria 
Vaccaria Linn, Sp. PL 585. ”Vaccaria 46, (6 Bempt 
‘Vou, XVIL 
‘flowering: i June and 
GYP 
104. Ger. em 492. }—Leares oe apes the ftem, very 
fmooth, Petals emarginate, ative of corn-fields 
in eee any, F 
erb {moo 
mined. ig d. 
Shevoted to have | a- 
thered es Dr. Sibthorp:on mountains in the Morea. this 
is a fmaller plant than the preceding, with a perennial root, 
crowned with tufts of numerous, eee bright-green 
leaves, se dges are with minute prickles. 
green ribs to the ree 
spay = as ng as ihe ad te 3 fiyles much thorter. 
aftr Linn. Sp. Pl. 581. (Alfine —- 
B iiloide ‘eat multiflora glabra purp 
luk, Ph f. 2.)—Leaves ea ishcenlses fmooth, 
Stems aif fe, mi branched, many-flowered. Styles pro- 
nt.—Prefumed to a native of the European alps, 
but | it is only ‘sat in gardens. "The perennial rcot bears 
many diffufe flender lems, 2 foot or two in pe bead 
much branched and forked at their jee Sag 
longer, fharper, narrower, and lefs flefhy, than ar “at, 
Pobers finaMer: white, the ftalks of F tho that grow from 
the forks of the ftem ser Soage upwards, 
7 fhorter ne ge Sty 
: iculata. Linn. Ss <3 83. Jacq, Auftr. a 
i Lea ee mes ; Seg Mn 
5 
pend. t. 1.— 
famens 
n 
ead blunt fegments, and whofe Jlamens are thort and abore 
tive in fome flowers, while mS ti is i in others, which 
according to Linneus gro feparate root. The 
heaves are ae rg Bae tantea, fmooth, except the 
— ones, which are more or lefs rough o i eth fides. 
ofa. Murray ae Getting. for 1783. 
€ a $A Bi. ar w. v. 2. $5.—“ fais otter. 
late, Senile eae 
ftem. 
ana 
ig 
by the ee Mr. eek It is faid to be a hardy 
‘his i is the only fpecies we have not yep 43 
7. G. adfeendens. Murray 
Phe Hort... Vind. v. 2. t. 1 Le 
. lanceolate. Stems A gsr Bovis 
