GALANTHUS-GENTIANA. 
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leaves, pedunculate ; flowers pedicelled ; calyx acuminate villose ; legum»> 
compressed, villose ; flowers small, purple. Milk plant. Pine barrens. 
glabella, leafets shining above ; stem smooth. 
GALANTIIUS. 6—1. {Narcissi.) [From gala, milk, anthos, flower, in allusion to its white- 
ness.] 
nivaVis, (snow-drop, w. Ap. %.) leaves linear, keeled, acute, radical ; scape 
1-flowered. Ex. 
GALE€fA. 16—10. (Leguminosce.) [From gala, milk, because it increases the milk of ani- 
mals who eat it.] 
virginia'na, (goats' rue, r-y. w. Ju. %.) erect ; leafets 8-12 pairs, oval-oblong, 
mucronate, white- villose beneath; raceme terminal; legumes falcate, vil- 
lose. 1 f. 
GALEOPSIS. 13—1. iLabiatcb.) [Trouxgale, a weasel, opsis, appearance.] 
lacla'num, (red hemp-nettle, r-w. Ju. @.) stem hairy, not swollen below the 
joints; leaves on short petioles, lanceolate, serrate, hairy; flowers whorled ; 
upper lip of the corolla slightly crenate. 1 f Waste grounds. Introduced. 
tetra'hit, stem hispid, swollen between the joints ; flowers rose-coloured, with 
a white tube, lowsr lip dotted with purple. 
GALIUM. 4—1. (RubiacecB.) [From g-ate, milk, some species having the property of coagu- 
lating milk.] 
trifi'dum, (bed-straw, w. Ju. %.) stem procumbent, scabrous backwards ; cau- 
line leaves in fives ; branch leaves in fours, linear, obtuse, scabrous at the 
margin and on the nerves ; terminal, few-flowered ; pedicel short ; corollas 
mostly 3-cleft. 
aspreVUm, (rough bed-straw w. Ju. %.) stem diffuse, very branching, prick- 
ly backwards; leaves in fives and sixes, lanceolate, acuminate; margins 
and nerves prickly; pedicels short. 18-24 i. 
tincto'rium, (dier's cleavers, w. Ju.) stem diff'use, smoothish ; leaves linear; 
cauline leaves in sixes, branch leaves in fours; peduncles terminal, elon- 
gated, mostly 3-flowered. Wet woods. Stem weak and branching. Leaves 
very narrow. Corolla mostly 4-cleft. Used as a red die. 
GAULTHERIA. 10—1. (Ericcc.) [From GawttAier, a physician and naturalist.] 
procum'bens, (spicy wintergreen, w. J. %. or l}.) stem procumbent ; branches 
erect; leaves obovate, acute at the base; flowers few, nodding. Berries 
red, .'onsisting in part of the permanent calyx ; a little mealy, pleasant 
tasted. 
GAURA. 8—1. (Onagrce.) 
bien^nis, (r-y, Au.(^.) stem having leaves purplish, sessile, lanceolate, tooth- 
ed ; flowers in terminal spikes. Banks of streams. 
GELSEMINUM. 5—2. (BignonecB.') 
sempervi'rens, (y. March %.) stem twining, smooth, glabrous ; leaves oppo- 
site, perennial, lanceolate, entire, dark green above, paler beneath; petioles 
short. (S. Nearly allied to Bignonia. 
GENISTA. 16—10. (Legmninos<B.) [From ^enw, a knee, on account of its joints.] 
Undo'rea, (dier's broom, y. Ju. T^.) root creeping, stem sub-erect, suffruticose; 
branches terete, striate, erect; leaves lanceolate, smooth; flowers in spiked 
racemes ; legumes smooth. Hills. Introduced. Affords a yellow die. Ex. 
GENTIANA. 5—2. (Gentiance.) [From Gentius, king of Illyria.] 
quinquejlo'ra, stem square, branched ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, sub-clasping, 
acute, 3-nerved, flowers somewhat in fives, axillary and terminal ; corolla 
sub-campanulate, 5-cleft, segments lanceolate, mucronate, calyx very short. 
Woods. Aug. Flowers small, pale blue. 
ochroleu'ca, large flowers, yellowish white, striped inside with blue and purple, 
orini'ta, (fringed . gentian, b. Sept. stem terete; branches long, 1-flower- 
ed; leaves lanceolate, acute; corolla 4-cleft; divisions obovate, gash cili- 
ate. 18 i. 
sapona'ria, (b. Oct. leaves ovate, lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved ; flowers 
whorl-capitate, sessile; corolla ventricos%, closed, 10 cleft; interior segments 
unequally 3-cleft, as long as the exterior ones ; segments of the calyx ovate, 
shorter than 'the tube. 18 i. Soap gentian. 
