one 
Cor. Petals fix, 
half as long, parallel, emarginate, riated. am. Fila. 
ments fix, inferted into the fummit of the gery “capillary, 
equal, very er-pointed, 
ae _ oblong, soo ng, tap 
iff, Germen ie fecior, globofe ; 
ityle eee we oe than ae, ftamens ; fligma fim- 
ple. Peric. Capfule nearly globofe, with three blunt angles 
of as cells aa three valves. Sveds fevera » globofe. 
at howell s emargin 
15°C. nivale, ia Sp. Pl. Engl. 
Jacq. Auftr. t. 31 3. The common Gowen | is os ay 
{pecies of a genus. It grows wild in rather mountainous 
or rocky sin Germ any, Italy, and aie parts of t 
fouth of Ea, flowering in the early fpring. Whether 
it be truly wild in England is much - ie Coie d. i 
gardens the flowers are often double, from a multiplication 
° the inner petals, ge are elegantly itreaked with a 
glaucous green rs. auld has beautifully dfeabed 
this on, ite harbinger a ipa in the following terms. 
«¢ As Flora’s breath, by fome one power, 
Had changed an ae into a 
Its name and hue the fcentlefs plant retains 5 
And Winter lingers in itsicy v 
GaLantis, in Gardening, comprehends a plant of the 
bulbous rooted flowering perennial kind, of which the {pe 
cies is. the: common {now-drop (G. nivalis). It bas ae 
varieties, one wit ni-double, and the — with double 
ower. 
owers. mon fort comes fir{t ia 
Method of ‘Culture. —All the forts of thefe fmall bea 
tiful plants are capable of being increafed with little Sain 
fimply by feparating a planting out the off-fets from the 
old roots, in the end of fummer, as foon as their 
leaves begin to cae or very early in the autumn, in the 
renee where they are to remain. 
be taken that fuch off-fets be not sail 
s fhould be enily 
aie fronts of borders, 
appearance 
e i 
eae They are well fuite 
clumps, and fhady plantations, cee a fine 
when in rene which is at a very early period. 
R, in ac et ye a town of Spain,, in 
New Calle: ; fix miles E.of Efcu 
GALAPAGOS, or To oer if a clufter ah defert 
iflands in tliat part of the Pac cean, calle 
__ Thefe iflands have ‘alfo been ret 
a aco. 
large ve oilele, “Capt 
* Voyage round te World,”’ has given the following ac- 
ount of them. he Galapagos are a great number of un- 
inhabited ee lying under, and on both fides of the 
equa eafternmoft of them are about 110 leagues 
pees ce a They are laid down in the longitude of 
181°, reaching to the weftward as far as 176°, fo that their 
longitude t from England weftward is about 68 degrees. 
Da nd SS thinks that our hy es tae do not: 
place them far enough to the weftward. paniards, 
who Ai difcovered them, and in whofe cour alone they t 
are laid down, report them to be a great number ftretching.. 
rolla as of fix petals; the ae inner-. 
Stigma fimple. 
GAL 
N.W. from the line, as fat as 5° N.; but Dampier did not 
fee above 14 or 15. ‘They are fome ce them, he ke feven 
or eight leagues long, and three or four broad. Capt.. 
fancouver, who paffed through en iflands without dan- 
ger or are uction, obferved that t 
N.W. a 
foutherames (S. lat. 1° 22’. 
appear to be above four miles 3 in circumference, and the 
ey a sal a Loe 
top; four or five 
of the eafternmoft are hibit barren, and hilly, producing 
neither tree, herb, r grafs, ex cept fome fhrubs on th 
fhore. : i e ands there is water the rocks in 
ponds and holes. Some others of thefe iflands are — 
e plain and asa and the land more fert ile, producing trees of 
different forks. Some of the wefternmoit of thefe eee 
are nine or ten leagues long, and fix or feven broad; 
the mould deep and black. ‘Thefe produce large and tall 
trees, efpecially mammee-trees, which grow in exten five 
groves. In a - sap e iflands there are rivers of eae 
lize 3. and in oe other leffer iflands there are brooks 
of good a "The ae when the ae firft difcovered 
thefe iflands, found a Ty of guanoes, and land-tur- 
tle or alee and hence named them the Galapagos ae 
es 
ampier s that he think no place in the world fo ple 
tifully eee ith thefe animals. 
GALAPHA, in ya Geography, a town of Mauri-- 
tania Tingitana. Ptolem 
GALARDI > in Botany. See VIRGILIA 
RED, in Geo raphy. a town of Sweden, in the 
ed sot Blekingen; 28 miles N. of H 
t. 
ARIA, Ancient Cie, a ae i the ifland. 
of Sal 
LARIPS, in Botany, a name originally given by 
Fred. Allamand to the fine South American plant, which 
Linneus publified by that of Allamanda cathartica 
GALARS, in Ge ography, a town of Teena 5 
16 miles S.E. of Hungad 
LASA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Ceelefyria.. 
iny.. 
ASHIELS, in. Ceograply, a flourifhing little 
town of. Scotland, in the cou nty of 5 Selkirk, on a fmal 
river called Gala vein " its union with the Tv veed, This 
town and its environs hav been famous for the manu- 
fa 
of which 50,0 rave n made annually h 
mode of areal ito i inthis ighbouthood has been ets 
pene ae miles N. clkirk, N. lat. 55° 
W. long..2° 5 a 
ALASO, a river.of Naples, which runs into the fea. 
near Tarento. 
- LATA, a fuburb of Gonffantinople, which fce.. See: 
alfo Per 
Ca. a{mall ifland in the epee near the: 
coaft of Tunis. N. lat. 38° 15’. E: long. 9 30’. 
TEA, in Myibolog’, a fea oh the Gaasieee 
eusand Doris, thus a on sarge ofthe fairnefs 
and beauty of her comple ayaa 
reprefent Polyphemus, the molt eae fe PSs- 
as iutlove with Galatea, and the rival of Acis; and a this 
hideous giant buried the young prince under-a rock, and 
the gods | transformed him into a river, or rather into a river-- 
god. Some authors, rake are of. sre that Acis. 
was a young prince o 
beauteous Galatea; and that j in ue {pair ie threw himfelf into 
the river, which from that time. has borne his- name; 
Nereips and Nympn.. 
GALATEQ,. 
of. Ner 
