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_ Diofearides to be ah et iii Linn. Gen. 292. 
Pog Willd. Sp. Pl. Mart. Miil. Did. 
L Lamarck Iluftr. 
Nat. 
v. 2. Brit. ae of” A 
t. 506. "Clafs and .order, lig oe 
Ord. Vertieillate, Linn. abiate, Jul. 
_ Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth of one leaf, tubular, with five 
rather ‘unequal {preading teeth, as long as ea Fai each 
armed with a fpinous awn, permanent. Cor. one petal, 
ringent ; tube fhort.; limb aping ; orice ra ae wider 
than the tube, as long or longer than the calyx, bearing on 
each fide, at the bafe of the lower lip, a little pointed tooth- 
like protuberance, hollow at the back ; upper lip roundith, 
‘ am. Filaments four, oS concealed by 
the a a ; two of them ; anthers roundifh, 
1 men feos “Four-cleft 3 ftyle t - oes 
: ofition as the fait ; 
fhe od aoe che on length and po 
ftigma in two fharp f{preading divifions, 
cept the rigid, upright or clofed calyx. 
lar, abrupt. 
EM, Ch. Calyx five-cleft, 
corolla notched, vaulted ; 
fide. 
Peric me, eX- 
See ian four, angu- 
awned. Upper lip of the 
lowe er with two teeth on its upper 
bf. Linnseus remarks, that in G. Ladanum the upper 
ip of the corolla is fomewhat reflexed at the apex, and 
ay at all crenate, but we pe os find this quite appli- 
t. 884. InG. Tetrahit 
a remarkable Mesa = 
ture, the t s of each bra having a 
oe  enaigeas falver- day Cen corolla, _ ee equal ipread- 
hilft all the others were of their ufual fhap 
Linn. Fl. ce . ed. 2. 201. e bo aac take this 
genus, at leaft fome of its {pecies, re thes 
corides, whilft others fuppofe Paige re “pureum to be 
what he intended under that n he late profeffor J. 
Sibthorp has, in our opinion, fettled the point by obferva- 
on the {pot, and propofes Scrophularia peregrina as mott 
treétly an{wering to all the ancient defcriptions, as sie 
. s growing where Diotcorides relates. he = r. Vl. Gree. 
to 
the Bee Orchis, is the moft {pecious, and is truly a beautiful - 
flower. It grows in fandy fields, and, like its congeners, is 
an annual, eafily propagated by feed. The herbage has an 
inelegant nettle-like afpect, befet with pungent prickles. 
Willdenow’s Species Plantarum enumerates four {pecies, 
but he has not ‘our villofa among them, and he divides 
. Ladanum into tw O, perhaps not Improperty. 
GALE PSUS, in Ancient Geography, a Greek town 
which authors have attributed, at different fee to Thrace, 
cedoni 
er to Macedonia. It was fituated on the weftern coa 
the peninfula, adjoining, on the. weft, to that on which 
mount Athos ftood. . This ee ae was denominated Sitho- 
nia. ‘Galepfus was about a mile from the coatt, having to 
the N.W. Myla, and to the S.E. Torone, which gave name 
to the Toronaic gulf. It wasa colony of Thafians, accord- 
ing to ‘Thucydides 
GALERA, in Geogr aph by, a town of Spain, in the pro- 
vince of Grenada; miles $.S.E. of Huefca.—Alfo, a 
pana of pain, | in the province ef Catalonia; 5 miles $.S.W. 
o 
GALERA, a. {mall ifland in the~ Mediterranean, on the 
coaft of Minor. 
— Cape, a cape on the coaft of South America, on 
GAL. 
the Spanifh Main. N. lat. 1 W. long. 75° 20 Allo, 
the eaft point - the: iflan a oF Trin ‘dade N. lat. 10° 45%. 
W. long. — —Alfo,; a town. of aah in. the Patrimony 
. Pete oa miles of Bracciano.—-Alfo, a river of 
Mexico, which runs into the Pacific ocean. N. lat. 15° 
55°. 
“GALERA, i in Zoology, a fpecie of M vo 3 which fee, 
GALERIA, or Gararta, in Ancient Geography, a town 
of Sicily, according to Diodowus Siculus. Ste ephanus, the 
geographer; calls the town ‘‘ Galarina Urbs,’’? and the 
country “ Galaria.’ 
GALERIA, Guff of, in a ed i on the N.W. 7 
of ithe ifland of 4h fica. 27’. E, long. 
44 
GALERICULATE Frow 
rs. See Fro 
GALE eee in Fei yl the crefted clea called 
alfo adonis. NNI 
(GALERIUS, Cnsed Armentari ws, and ftyled alfo the 
aid + Maximian, in Bicgraps » was appointed. Cefar by 
Dioe ean, March. rft, A. D, 292, and in the year 305 ad- 
vanced to the Imperial throne. In 307, he elevated Lici- 
nius to the rank of Auguttus, fo that at this time there were 
in reality fix Roman emperors, viz. Maximian, Galerius, 
Conftantine, Maximin, Maxentius, and Licinius. Galerius 
died in 311, of a long and grievous diftemper, fuppofed to 
have been infli&ted upon. him as a judgment from heaven for 
his inhuman treatment. of the Chriftians. has other ely 
culars relating to him, fee DiocLEs1an and 
GA Y,.in Geography, a town of ce ifland of 
pl celebrated for its fifhery;-15 miles oe Ma- 
cafia: 
GALESU US, (CERVARO,). in Ancient een a river 
of Italy, in the vicinity of eae, mentioned by Virgil and 
Martial. - 
GALETS, m Geography, an ifland at the N.E..end of 
lake Cntario, and in the tate of New York ; 3 miles S.W. 
of Roebuck. ifland. 
GALETTE, a and in the river St. 
Laurence, in Can The land saiciding to it is 
nes It is 1 age above the fall called Les Galots. 
GALET TE, Riviere 4 la Vielle, a river of Upper a 
oe runs ‘into the river ee Laure ence, above ifle Fort Lev 
W. 
a neck of | 
a 
oO 
GALEUS, in Lebthyolgy. ah SQUAL 
Gates Rhodius, a name given by Rakeoe and fome 
other of. the old writers to a very large and delicate fifh. 
Schoneveldt is of opinion, that they meant by it the ftur- 
geon, and ce ae good reafons for his opinion. See 
ACIPENSER Siu 
GaLrus Stellatue, the farred hound fifo, in Ichthyology, a kind 
o i fifh remarkably fpeckled, with white {pots in form 
oe) 
GALEXIA, a name me ab by Galen, and fome of the 
other ancient writers, to the common lampre 
in- nei a town of Hin 
ea country of Viapovr (48 miles §. of Vifepows 
° g2', E. long. 75. 
GALGON, a hae of Fines; in the department of 
the Gironde; 5 miles N. of Libour 
GALGULUS, in Ornithology, a ae of es ittacus ; 
which fee. —Alfo, a f{pecies of Corvus; which fee —Alfo 
a {pecies of Coracias, Coracias garrula, or roller; @ 
the Coracias ee 3 fee Conacias.— Alf, 2 fpecies of 
etrao, or the o nevius. See Txr 
GALH. ‘NO. in in Cegraphyy a gaye of pee in the 
Coi 
a the Materia Media, a Haine pce by fome to 
5 the 
Fy Hy 
= 
ooftan, in 
N. lat. 
province of patie 3 12 miles N 
GALI, 
