Gar 
ft’ numerous on the lower part of each ftem 
two, three, four, or five together in terminal nese, 
in the manner of Dianthus prolifer, Engl. Bot. t. 956; with 
, lanceolate bradeas about them, nearly equal to 
the calyx, which is fometimes dowr Petals entire, white 
three purple lines at the € ) 
beautifully reticulated underneath, near the margin with 
rple veins, Cap/ule cylindrical inclining to ovate, opening 
teeth or half-valves. 
_ A figure of this, as well as of - as following, i is deftined 
to appear h hereafter i in the Flora 
t9G. ( mea 
eretica; Linn. Sp. 84. )—Leaves iaoness ree- 
Stem partly forked. Border of each petal lanceo- 
pa macs, Root tt aoe” ete 0 of the rocks of Crete. 
Root woocy, perennial. | numerous, ere¢t, about a 
fi high, es leafy, baie, erties and fomewhat pani- 
ied, nder aves lanceolate, Leuied; fkarp-pointed, 
three-ribbed in their lower part. Flowers folitary, terminal, 
very numerous, fmall, their calyx and ftalks downy, with- 
out etals narrow, entire, _= above, purplifh 
underneath. Capfule ovate, of f alve 
18. G. ochroleuca. Prod. Fl. 947.—Leaves awl- 
d. Fl. Gre _ 
thaped ; the lower ones linear and ec. 98 Stem forked, 
divaticated. Border of each petal fpatulate, — at the 
bafe—Difcovered by Dr. Sibtherp on the famous mount 
Hymettus, near Athens, The rost feems ann at Stems 
numerous, of various heights, erect, branched, and forked 
almoft from the bottom, at moft a foot high. . Leaves grafs- 
narrow, Se, sa ribbed. Flowers like the laft, 
except their pe ing more fpatulate, and pale ftraw- 
— Cesentty: dotted and ftreaked with purple at the 
a G. iMyrica. 
Linn 
Prod. Fl. Grec. n. 948. Ss 
vay . 66 
— es Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 
m; Bpeting a t. g. )—Leaves awl- Mapes Stem 
level Aiapped, he wny and vifcid, as well as the 
llyx. Border of each fetal obovate, dotted at the bafe — 
lative of Dalmatia, and. of the Archipelago. Dr. Sib- 
torp found it, flowering in Auguft, on the hills of the 
land of Amorgos. Root biennial, according to — 
hofe figure of this plant isin all its parts teo large 
tough on the whole too dwarfifhh. We have compared 5 
pecimens with thofe of Sibthorp, a caution the more ne- 
eHary, as this {pecies i perfons. The 
ba dent a {pan high, leafy ; ri? below, ea 
eer 
Se ee oe te 
a ahaha EPS blunt, white peta ve 
thes purple ay at the bafe of their ote. Cap/fule ovate, 
Faria at . teeth. Anthers blue. .The eaves are SY 
20. G. océllata. 
eiteulo atro-purpureo ; Tou ma 14. Cu cubalu * 
' ; Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2. Ay pee edeiat wc 
Bord: on both fides. Stems 
Gers of the petals ovate, mar: with wos vise: 
? of mount Delphi in the “and of Negropont, 
where De. Sibthorp gathered it. ‘The root is ‘ong, thick, 
Se tufted. © aa downy, light st 
: > 
pertne an 
Sreett es hater seo Plsser rs 2 
feven in each fol terminal Mft, ennehe 4 ba 
thort leaves or w braéteas. ‘The broad white petals are 
GYP 
fort's fynonym, nor does Willdenow's defcription differ 
effentially from our plant, except that the petals are not emar- 
ginate, nor are the ityles three, as they ought to be in Cu- 
cubalus. 
21. G. thymifolia. Prod. Fl. Gree. n. 9 .— Leaves 
—_ sea on both fides. Stems aitfale, fomewhat 
fork Borders of the petals obovate, rounded, fpotlefs. i" 
Giikeied by De Si his has | 
the habit of the laft, but the 
difpofed to be b 
rounder. Flowers two or three in each tuft, rarely apitiey 
anid folitary. Calyx hairy. Borders of the petals b 
rounded, white, entire, without any mark or {pot. Ca; ipfisle 
ovate, trot; four-toothed The lower part of the ar 1s 
woody, and even fhrubby. 
GY , in Agriculture, a fubftance formed by the 
combination of the ftp acid with calcareous earth; and 
which has been faid to have been found ber yn asa 
in different places, as in any, i 
not yet been tried with much h faetehs in ‘this country. See 
Gypsum infra. 
With refpeé to its ufe as a manure, it is afferted not to — 
have been difcovered until about the year 1768, at which 
period it was ress bene to be beneficial in this intention 
Mr. Mayer, a German 
It is fuggetted as 
aii “that it is the moft 
advan 
tageous on the drained clayey foils, —o arts by iene 
ing it out evenly, or fowing it exatly 
hem in not too large a > age chen ‘tl 
bruary or the following on 
It feems prebable alfo, chat it is the moft adapted to fuch 
lands as are in the ftate of {ward, though it may BF employed. 
on thofe under tillage 
“ +, oe land, in hangs it is ftated, in the ninth 
volume of the Agricultu zine, that. comparative 
trials w ih this and other manures were made on sh a fton 
clay, mixed w ys a little leam, in order to afcertain the be 
pany re for w 
5 eae ‘field (nearly a level furface) was divided 
into five equal parts, exa¢tly an Englifh acre each. 
were equally well ploughed, and laid-down in wheat, td 
Englith buthels on each acre, after being manured as fol- 
ows. 
s On No. 1, was on ete, half par of plafter 
of Paris, or fum, pounded rather 
¢ On No. vag put a compoft manure, which confifted 
of a: lime. The bed of a frefh water river, common 
the furfaces of 
month of Fe- 
ue On Now's cowpenned, as is loa in America, by 
ning the sside a night. 
a On No. 4, was meee: ftable-dung, only rather thin. . 
« On No. 5, lime was applied, <p ufual way, as in 
yo Enea? and Ireland, with oyfter-fhell lime 
rod 
oe doe greater. was 
grain ce a 6alb. the Winchelter 
Vi kal wate es a full 
a iiptincd that dung, or organic matter, was theft 
