GALLS. 
tmers and principally 
f{ubfifted by the breeding of hogs in. dies foreits, were wont 
to confider the frequent occurrence o| thofe excrefcences as a 
ity, fince, when they appear 
1t 
the juft-mentioned provinces obtained permiifon to export 
this article by fea to the Auftrian harbours in the Mediterra- 
Since that aa the price of the knoppern has been 
80, the kubel, bemg two Prefburgh 
florins ; 7 but foon after it fell to five and 
i 3, the price was-as low as 
ungary. they are 
found mot pene: in the eee ‘y fore, and the princi- 
pal market is Fiinfkirchen. Before they are ufed, 
the eae are ieee in aaa 
When this new article of commerce was firft difcovered, 
e lime 
ee) r 
is no differenc in the 
mer oak. \ vith ene bese 
ually certain -is;: qe the infe@ from 
which the oe originate i is a diftinG {pecies of cynips: 
it depofits its eggs in the germen or young fruits, and by 
this means an exereleencs is area which last covers the 
whole cup and acorn. - Owing to the preffure thus caufed, 
the fruit 4 1S generally ‘prevented fon ecto infelf, and 
therefore remains in a fh ft 
s a fubftitute for gall-nuts, the ancients, as appears 
from, Paulus fEgineta, made ufe of the cups of acorns as 
well for the purpofes of medicine as for ta tanning: and they 
are ftill ufed in, Italy, from whence, in sc times, they have 
found their. way 3 into seg oie re im- 
$ 
which latter, on account oF its 
called. Agisox), but particularly from Sm myrna, a 
neighbouring {mall harbours of Vourla and Segigiek, Gon 
lience alone 0,000 cwt. are aid to have been annually 
urfac T 
ft ety venclofe 
h exhibits 
Garis, Box, in Natural Hiflory, the name given by au- 
thors.to.2 very fiagular kind of gells, of a conic figure, gin 
a conic ee or: cover, pra! a woo 0 a- 
Jodgment 
an 
of © tn ee eae ; 
¥ on es ae of the lime-tree Reanmur 
Gattis, Bramble, a Haire of galls found on the agenda 
he common. wild bramble. Thefe are often no other- 
than tumefactions of the ftalk, for the {pace of an. iach, or. 
thereabout, which fometimes form. only fo many. thick’ cy 
lindric pieces; at other times they are of the fhape of air 
olive, and fometimes they ape only one . of the branch: 
in all cafes, however, the part, 0 ‘ 
ie) 
ry 
ney ar bya 
worms of an oblong ie and ale colour, which have’ 
a fharp point of a brown colour, and of the hardnefs of. 
Cae for - veying into the ftomach the 
fragments of wood which it eae aan the tea ‘Reaum 
ALLS, Broom, a {pecies of galls n the Genifta 
vulyaris, or common brcom,. This gall is pee to contain a 
{mall oblong worm, of ared colour ; and too {mall to be: : 
ren dingy w mae a gl 
e Lin 
See Masco: 
See aaa 
IND, 
vine qian ral Hifto ors the name of aclafs of 
mrag cas re refemblance to {mall galls or 
antes Roe of a like kind upon trees. They: 
are indeed fo like thefe fubftances, as to have been by many 
or them, and thought not of the animal, but of 
a ve 
ance of 
acquire their flated growth. ‘They are in this ftate as im- 
moveable as the branch they are fixed on, and feem to make 
a part - a Their exterior form is remarkab 
fimple, e more the creature increafes in growth, the 
lefs appearance of life it, fhev ev n it has ac- 
uired its , and is in a condition to depofit its égzs 
OL 
sera a gall, or aes oo pt nee Ne 
nly the vulgar and incurious sl been dec eae by this ap- 
ti fi 
in fize, ape, 
Thefe creatures ioe en little to attract ie: obfervation 
ar, are ometimes in a manner covered. with them, 
a 
kind, and others: o 
a 
= pene of the ie of the tree, ie attempted ta. 
eayes and fruit of thefe trees-are' ofter 
