GAR 
he formed ear ar churches in this province. He wa 
probably the firft who preached there to the Gentiles | 3 
although it is not uniikely, that Peter had preached there 
to the . Jews, fince his firft ea is ee to the Jews, 
apo wile, which had been dif- 
put a view of placing him below Peter, 
who preached, generally, to the Jews “only, and obferved 
the la For the date and purport of this epiftle, fee 
Eprstir. 
GALATOLA, i in Geography, a town of AC a in the 
province of Otranto ; four miles E. S. E. of Nardo. 
L » in Ancient Geography a town of Great 
Britain, in the roth rout of Antonine, fuppofe ed to be Old- 
*Sown, between Glanoventa or Lanchetter, in the county 
of aa and Alone or Whitley cattle. 
» in Botany, fro eee milk, on account of 
the ee of the flowers. Mitchel, who fent it to 
Linneus, named it Viticella, the application of which is not 
very obvious. Linn. Gen. 109. Schreb. 151. Willd. Sp 
Pl. v 1146. Mart. Mill. Di&. v. 2. Juff. 420. (Sole 
nandria; Vent. Malm. 69. Blandfordia; Frafer in Andr 
es 343. Erythrorrhiza; Michaux al-Amer. v. 2. 
5-)—Clafs and or Sieid iia ia IMonogynia. Nat. Ord 
ee Juff. ic 
Mea ad Cal. Periath inferior, in five deep, equal, 
Cor. Petals five, lanceolate, 
earing the igi 
, nearly feffile o 
of t the nect 
the inner furface of the fhorter fe - 
Pif, Germe ial ee ovate ; ityle none; fligma flefhy, 
of three or ae bes. Peric. Capfule = three cells and 
three valves. Se ds pumerous, minute. 
Ef, Ch. Calyx 3 in five deep fegments. Petals five. Nec- 
tary abs in ten fegm ents, alternately bearing the 
vfule fuperior, of three cells and three valves. 
. a bulla, Lina. Sp. Pl. 289. Curt. Mag. t. 754. 
(Solenindria cor¢ ie ; Vent. Malmais. t. 69. Bland fordia 
cordat t.343.  Erythrorrhiza rotundifolia ; 
Michaug Boreal. aa 2. 35.t 26. ative of mcun- 
tainous places in Georgia and Carolia, flowering in May. 
Mr. Frafer firft brought it to England. 
nial, compofed of very red fibres. Stem none. 
radical, heart-fhaped, doubly crenate, fmooth, on very long 
foot ale ae numerous in long- {ta ike ed fpikes, re- 
fembling thofe fr) ethri The Lin nean generic defcrip- 
ene y communicated by Mitchel, is fo very erroneous, 
an it is no wonder n of the botanilte who faw the plant 
rmine it, nor coud the Galax of Linnzus ever have 
ech cul afcertained, but by his herbarium, where ori- 
ginal {pecimens are preferved. 
‘LA LA, from yara, milk, though the application 
he name is, befides, too near 
Thunb. 2 ov. Gen, 50. Schreb. 451. Willd. Sp. 
Pl. v. 3. 593. Jufl “57 ines Mill ie .v.2. Cavan. Dif, 
40. Lamarck Illuitr Ga n Curt. Mag. 1208, 
w 
lafs and — Monadelpbia Triandra. "Nat. Ord. Enfaiz, 
Linn. Jr: - 
Cal. Spatha of one or two membranous clofed 
Ae ‘of one petal, fuperior; tube long, thread. 
XV, 
en. 
lea ves, 
Vor 
ope 
nthe 
obtufely trang fino = 
rather ee than the {tam 
Seeds ‘numerous, {fmall, 
Eff. Ch. Spatha of one or ae leaves. Corolla re Saralg 
of one age in fax deep fegmen‘s, with an elongated tu 
tyle one. Stigmas three, in numerous capillary ees 
Capfule inferior, of three cells. Seeds globofe. 
This is a Cape genus, firft eftablifhed by Geagieal and 
mott allied to Si princi Only tw are 
whic i 
acq. Ic. Rar. t.291. The 
Flewers occefionally yellow 
or purple, very fugacious —G. graminea, oss fugaciffima 
= i 94)» Curt. Mag. t. 1292, Jacq. Coll. v. 2. 
t. 
The fpecies requie the fame treatment as 
other pees eat ty id 
g, and the Ship, where it appears moft re iplonde t in 
fouthern latitudes ; it then pafles through the sate - the 
Centaur, the Grote, the fouthern Talat the nd returns to-~ 
ath ie 
elds » who a ars to nee been 
very | nana in oe conjeéture as to the caufe of this 
light 
oS 
« Anne ete denfa ape turba @orona 
Contexit flammas et craffo lumine candet 
Et feos nitet collate clarior orbis ? 
Ariltotl ec, almoft aly ways smiftaken when 
shen 3 an intcrelting oe Tcedietslp se 
fhould there be fuch a zone of ftars, and. what explanation 
does it admit of? Dr. fea es! is ‘undoubtedly the aftro. 
nomer who has taken th 
his theory is extremcly plan ible, at leaft, if uot entirely fatis- 
factory, He fuppofes es fidereal univerfe to be a 
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