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EI)S Er^aSuqi at SSotang. 



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era Australia, the other confined to "West- 

 ern Australia. All are handsome erect 

 much-branched hushes, with alternate tri- 

 foliolate leaves like those of the birdsfoot- 

 tref oil — whence the name lotifolia applied 

 to one of the species. The branches bear 

 towards their apex racemes of golden 

 yellow flowers, like those of a laburnum, 

 but smaller. The chief features of the ge- 

 nus are the trifoliolate leaves ; two-lipped 

 calyx, the lips not deeply divided ; stamens 

 all united into a sheath ; and thin and flat 

 veined pods. Its nearest ally is Bossicea, 

 from which the compound leaves distin- 

 guish it. G. lotifolia and G. pubescens are 

 both in cultivation in greenhouses. The 

 genus commemorates the name of Peter 

 Good, a collector for Kew Gardens, who 

 died in Australia. [A. A. B.] 



GOOD KING HARRY. Chenopodium (or 

 Bliturn) Bonus Henricus. 



GOODYERA. A genus of terrestrial 

 orchids with small flowers like those of 

 Spirdntkes, but the spike is not spiral, and 

 the lip does not embrace the column, has 

 no callosities at the base, and is contracted 

 at the top into a recurved point. It con- 

 sists of very few species, all from the 

 northern hemisphere, and mostly from 

 high latitudes or mountain ranges. G. 

 repens, generally found in moist woods, is 

 widely spread over Northern Europe, Asia, 

 and America, but in Britain only occurs in 

 the highlands of Scotland. It has a creep- 

 ing rootstock and an erect flowering stem 

 of six inches to a foot, with a few ovate 

 leaves near the base. The flowers are of a 

 greenish white, in a slender one-sided ter- 

 minal spike. 



GOOGUL. Balsamodendron Mukul. 



GOOLS. Various Marigolds, as Calendula 

 officinalis, Caltha palustris, and Chrysan- 

 themum segetum. 



GOOMALA. Batatas edulis. 



GOOMPANY. The wood of Odina Wodier, 

 used in India for railway sleepers. 



GOOXCH. A Hindoo name for the seeds 

 of Alrrus precatorius. 



GOOXSOORA. An Indian fibre-yielding 



ffibigCUS. 



GOORA NUTS. The seeds of Cola acu- 

 minata. 



GOORGOORA. Beptonia buxifolia. 



GOOSE and GOSLINGS. Orchis Maria. 



GOOSEBERRY. Ribes Uva crispa, often 

 called B. G-rossularia. — , BARBADOS. 

 PeresMa aculeata. — , COROMANDEL. 

 Averrhoa Carambola. — , TAHITI. Cicca 

 disticha. 



GOOSEFOOT. A common name for 

 Chenopodium ; also Aspalathus Clienopoda. 



GOOSETONGUE. Achillea Ptarmica. 



GOOSESHARE. Galium Aparine. 



GOOWA. The Betel nut, Areca Catechu. 



GORDONIA. A genus of Ternstrdmia- 

 cece, natives of North America and of the 

 Alps of tropical and sub-tropical Asia, con- 

 sisting of shrubs with alternate coriaceous 

 entire leaves, and solitary one-flowered 

 peduncles. The calyx is persistent, of five 

 nearly equal concave sepals ; the corolla of 

 five petals alternate with the sepals, imbri- 

 cate in aestivation : the stamens numerous, 

 hypogynous. The fruit is a four to five- , 

 celled capsule, with two to four pendulous 

 seeds in each cell. There are seven known 

 species. [J. H. B.] 



GORSE. The Common Furze, Ulex euro- 

 pwus. 



GORTERIA. A small genus of dwarf 

 annual herbs of the composite family pe- 

 culiar to South Africa, their stems and 

 linear or oblong-lanceolate leaves more or 

 less hispid, and the latter clothed under- 

 neath with a close-pressed white down ; 

 and the twigs terminated by solitary yellow 

 flower-heads nearly an inch across, and 

 somewhat like those of the common mari- 

 gold. These have an involucre of many 

 series of narrow scales with (eventually) 

 hardened tips ; when the flowers wither, 

 these involucres contract at the top, so 

 that the seeds cannot escape : the latter, 

 therefore, when they germinate, push their 

 stems upwards and their roots downwards 

 through the spiny nut-like involucres, 

 which" remain attached at the collar of the 

 root, and have the appearance of a spiny 

 tuber of the size of a hazel-nut. The ray 

 florets are strap-shaped neuter, those of 

 the disk tubular and perfect ; the achenes 

 are villous at the summit only, and sur- 

 mounted with a short crown-like pappus 

 composed of a single series of scales, these 

 characters of the fruit, distinguishing the 

 genus from Gazania, to which it is nearly 

 allied. [A. A. B.] 



GORY-DEW. Palmetto, cruenta. 



GOSSYPIANTHTTS. A genus of Ama- 

 ranthacece, containing perennial North 

 American herbs with woolly procumbent 

 stems, elongate spathulate root-leaves, 

 those of the stem much smaller, opposite, 

 nearly sessile, ovate, and entire, more or 

 less densely covered with silky wool. The 

 flowers are axillary, densely aggregated, 

 covered with wool, and have a five-leaved 

 perianth, five stamens with free filaments, 

 and one-celled anthers without interme- 

 diate teeth. [J. T. S.] 



GOSSYPITJM. This small genus of Mal- 

 vaceo?, is one of the most important of the 

 whole vegetable kingdom, for to it we are 

 indebted for the valuable and well-known 

 article Cotton, which occupies such a pro- 

 minent place in the manufacturing in- 

 dustry of this and other countries, and 

 which gives employment to so large a pro- 

 portion of our mercantile marine. The 

 number of species of Gossypium is ex- 

 tremely uncertain. Between twenty and 

 thirty have been described and named by 

 botanists, but the characters on which 

 they are founded are so slight and variable 



