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SEije (Ercasurp at Matmxv, 



[grub 



GRISAILLE, or GRISARD. (Fr.) Popu- 

 lus canescens. 



GRISEBACHIA. A genus of heath- 

 worts, distinguished by the following 

 marks : —calyx bell-shaped, and slightly 

 four-angled ; corolla scarcely longer than 

 the calyx; filaments covered with stiff 

 hairs ; the style ending in a small very 

 blunt stigma; seed-vessel compressed, 

 two-celled, two-seeded. The genus was 

 named in honour of Grisebach, a German 

 botanist. The species are heathlike shrubs, 

 natives of the Cape. [G. D.] 



GRISELINIA lucida is an evergreen 

 shrub forming a genus of Cornacece nearly 

 allied to Aucuba, which it also resembles 

 in habit. The leaves are of a bright shin- 

 ing green, alternate and quite entire ; the 

 flowers small, dioecious, in tei-minal pani- 

 cles, the males with five stamens, the 

 females with an inferior ovary of one or 

 two cells, but with three stigmas. The 

 fruit is a berry with a single pendulous 

 seed. It is in cultivation in our botanical 

 gardens. 



GRISET (Fr.) Hippophae rhamnoides. 



GRISEUS. Pure grey, a little verging to 

 blue. 



GRISLEA. A genus of LythrncecB con- 

 sisting of a few handsome opposite-leaved 

 bushes or small trees. G. tomentosa. a very 

 common East Indian species, has sessile 

 lance-shaped entire leaves clothed with 

 white down underneath, and pretty scarlet 

 fuchsia-like blossoms arranged in axillary 

 cymes, and consisting of a tubular colour- 

 j ed calyx with a four to six-toothed border, 

 I and a like number of green glands in the 

 : clefts, four to six small narrow petals, 

 eight to twenty stamens protruded beyond 

 the calyx tube, and an ovary tipped with a 

 . simple style. According to Roxburgh, the 

 I calyx tube, which closely invests the ripe 

 I capsules, does not lose its colour when 

 I withered, and thus the shrub has a gaudy 

 J appearance even when in fruit. The flow- 

 i ers, mixed with those of Morinda, are used 

 as a dye known as Dhaee m India. One 

 African and one American species are 

 known. [A. A. B.] 



GRIT-BERRY. Comarostapliylis. 



GROATS, or GRITS. The grain of the 

 oat deprived of its husks. 



GROBYA. A genus of epiphytal orchids 

 of Brazil, having OA'ate pseudobulbs, with a 

 few grassy ribbed leaves at their apex, and 

 a drooping flower-scape proceeding from 

 the base of the pseudobulb, and ending in 

 a short raceme of yellow or greenish flow- 

 ers tinged and spotted with" purple. The 

 lower connate crescent-shaped sepals are 

 larger than the upper, the petals broader, 

 forming a sort of helmet overhanging the 

 lip, which is small and flve-lobed at the 

 apex, and the two bilobed pollen-masses 

 have each a distinct caudicle attached to 

 an oval gland. G. Amherstice and G. galeata 

 are the two known species, both in culti- 



vation. The genus is named in compliment 

 to Lord Grey of Groby. [A. A. B.] 



GROMWELL, or GROM ELL. Litliosper- 

 mum ojjicinale. — , FALSE. Onosmodium. 



GRONOVIA. A genus usually placed in 

 Loasacece, from most of the genera in which 

 it differs in the flowers having five instead 

 of numerous stamens, and the ovary one 

 instead of many ovules. The only known 

 species, G. scandens, found in Mexico and 

 New Grenada, is a scaudent herb very like 

 the common bryony of our hedges. Its 

 small yellow flowers have a funnel-shaped 

 calyx with a five-toothed border, and near 

 its base an accessory calyx of five small 

 bracts ; the five small petalsare inserted on 

 the calyx tube, and the fruit is a little in- 

 dehiscent capsule, with one seed. [A. A. BJ 



GROS BLE. (Fr.) Tritictim turgidum. 

 — GOBET. Cerasus vulgaris. < 



GROSEILLIER. (Fr.) Ribes. —A MA- 

 QUEEEAUX. The cultivated varieties of 

 liibes Uva crispa. — EPINEUX SAUVAGE. 

 The wild Gooseberry, Ribes Uva crispa. 



GROSIER. The Scotch name of the 

 Gooseberry. 



GROSSAILLE. (Fr.) Triticum. 

 GROSSE GRIOTTE. (Fr.) Cerasus vul- 

 garis. — JONQUILLE. Narcissus odorus. 



GROSSIFICATION. The swelling of the 

 ovary after fertilisation. 



GROSSULARIACE^E. (Grossulariece, Ri- 

 besiacece, Currantworts.) A natural order 

 of calycifloral dicotyledons characterising 

 Lindley's grossal alliance of epigyi.ous 

 Exogens. Shrubs often spiny, with alter- 

 nate palmately-lobed leaves, without true 

 stipules. Calyx superior, limb four to five- 

 lobed ; petals small, five; stamens five; 

 ovary one-celled with two parietal placen- 

 tas; styles more or less united. Fruit a 

 berry, crowned with the remains of the 

 flower ; seeds numerous, albuminous. Na- 

 | tives of the temperate parts of Europe, 

 ! Asia, and America. Wholesome plants, 

 i often supplying edible fruits, such as the 

 gooseberry, red currant, and black currant. 

 Some of the plan ts are showy garden shrubs. 

 There appear to be only two known genera, 

 Ribes and Polyosma, and about a hundred 

 species. [J H B.] 



GROSSUS. Coarse ; larger than usual : 

 thus grosse crenatus = coarsely crenated ; 

 grosse serratus = coarsely serrated. 



GROUNDHEELE. Veronica officinalis. 



GROUNDSEL. Senecio, especially S. vul- 

 garis ; also Hyoscyamus Senecionis. — 

 TREE. Baccharis halimifolia. 



GROWING POINT. The soft centre of 

 a bud, over which the nascent leaves are 

 formed ; and all modifications of it. 



GRUBBIACE^E. A natural order of mo- 

 nochlamydeous dicotyledons, containing 

 only the genus Grubbia, and referred by 

 Lindley and others to the Bruniacecem the 

 umbellal alliance of epigynous Exogens. 



