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feilles, which were brought from Senegal in Africa, 
by Monf. Adanfon •, this rifes in this country with a 
fhrubby ftalk five or fix feet high, fending out many 
lateral branches, which are covered with a brown hairy 
bark, and garnifhed with oval fpear-fhaped leaves, 
about two inches long, and one inch and a quarter 
broad in the middle, having feveral tranfverfe veins 
from the midrib to the fides, where they are fawed ; 
thefe are placed alternately on the branches, having 
very ftiort foot-ftalks, and continue in verdure through 
the year •, the plants are young, fo have not as yet 
flowered in England, therefore I can give no further 
account of them. 
This fort is tender, fo will not live through the win- 
ter in England, unlefs it is placed in a warm ftove ; 
nor do thofe plants thrive well, which are placed on 
fhelves in the dry ftove ^ therefore the only method 
to have them fucceed, is to place them in the bark- 
bed in the tan-ftove, where the plants have grown 
very well for fome years. In fummer thefe plants 
require a good fhare of free air to be admitted to 
them, and fttouid have water three or four times a 
week in warm weather •, but in winter they muft be 
fparingly watered, and require to be kept warm. 
G R I A S. Lin. Gen. 659. Anchovy Pear. 
The Characters are, 
I he empalement is cup-Jhaped , of one leaf cut into four 
equal fegments •, the flower has four leathery concave petals, 
and many briflly flamina which are inferted to the recep- 
tacle terminated by roundifh fummits , and a depreffed ger- 
men immerfed in the empalement , having no ftyle, crowned 
by a four-cornered crofs-Jhaped ftigma , which afterward 
becomes a flejhy berry, with a large nut having eight fur- 
rows, and one cell containing a large pointed feed. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft order of 
Linnaeus’s thirteenth clafs, intitled Polyandria Mono- 
gynia, the flower having many ftamina and one ftyle. 
We know but one Species of this genus, viz. 
1. Grias ( Cauliflora ). Lin. Sp. 732. Anchovy Pear. Pal- 
mis affinis malus Perfica maxima, caudice non ramo- 
fa, foliis longiflimis, flore tetrapetalo pallide luteo, 
frudu ex arboris trunco prodeunte. Sloan. Hift. Jam. 
. 2. p. 122. 
This plant grows naturally in Jamaica, and in many 
other warm parts of America, where it rifes with a 
ftrait undivided ftem about twenty feet high, having 
a gray bark, marked with the veftigia of the fallen 
leaves ; the top of the ftem is garnilhed with leaves 
near two feet long and fix inches broad, fitting clofe 
without foot-ftalks ; thefe have one longitudinal mid- 
rib with feveral tranfverfe veins, and are of a lucid 
green ; the flowers come out from the ftem below the 
leaves, having no foot-ftalk, in fome places one, and 
in others they are in clufters, each having four thick 
yellow petals, and a great number of ftamina which 
are fixed to the empalement of the flower ; the ger- 
men is included in the empalement, which afterward 
becomes a large oval Plumb, including a large pointed 
nut. ' 
The fruit of this tree is by the Spaniards in the Weft- 
Indies pickled and fent to old Spain as prefents, who 
eat them as Mango’s, and fome fay the ripe fruit is 
eaten as a defart. 
The plant is propagated by planting of the ftones, 
which Ihould be put into the ground foon after the 
fruit is gathered, and the plants muft be conftantly 
kept in the bark-bed in the ftove, otherwife it will 
not thrive in this country. 
G R O N O V I A. Martyn. Cent. 4. Lin. Gen. Plant. 
284. The name of this genus was given by the late 
Dr. Houfton, in honour of Dr. Gronovius, a learned 
' botanift at Leyden. 
The Characters are. 
The flower hath a permanent empalement of one leaf, which 
is coloured, and cut to the middle into five fegments. It hath 
Jive fmall petals which are fixed to the cuts of the em- 
palement, and five hairy ftamina the length of the petals, 
which are inferted into the empalement, and are placed al- 
ternate with the petals , terminated by twin fummits which 
are ereht. The germen is fituated under the flower , fup- 
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porting ' a Jlender ftyle which is longer them- the ftamina , 
crowned by an obtufe ftigma. The germen afterward be- 
comes a roundifh-coloured fruit with one cell, inclofmg one 
large roundifh feed. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fedion of 
Linnaeus’s fifth clafs, intitled Pentandria Monogynia, 
which includes thole plants whofe flowers have five 
ftamina and one ftyle. 
We know but one Species of this genus, viz. 
Gronovia (1 Scandensf Llort. Cliff. 74. Gronovia fcan- 
dens lappacea, pampinea fronde. Houft. Climbing 
burry Gronovia . 
This plant was difeovered by the late Dr. Houftoun 
at La Vera Cruz, from whence he fent the feeds to 
Europe, which have fucceeded in many gardens. It 
is an annual plant, which fends forth many trailing 
branches like thofe of the Cucumber, which are 
clofely fet with broad green leaves, in fhape like thofe 
of the Vine ; but they are covered with fmall fpines 
on both ftdes, which fting like the Nettle: the 
branches have many tendrils or clafpers, by which 
they fallen themfelves to whatever plants they grow 
near, and will rife to the height of fix or eight feet ; 
the flowers are fmall, and of a greenilh yellow colour, 
fo make no great appearance. 
This being a very tender plant, muft be raifed on a 
hot-bed early in the fpring, and afterward placed in 
the bark-ftove, and treated in the fame way as the 
Momordica, with which management it will produce 
ripe feeds ; but this having neither ufe or beauty, is 
rarely cultivated but in botanic gardens for the fake 
of variety. 
GROSSULARIA. Raii Meth. Plant. 145. Tourn. 
Inft. R. H. 639. tab. 409. Ribes. Lin. Gen. Plant. 
247. Goofeberry • in French, Grofelier. 
This and the Currant are by Tournefort placed in 
the fame genus, under the title of Groffularia •, they 
are alfo joined together by Dr. Linnseus, under the 
title of Ribes, for in their principal charaders they 
agree ; fo according to the fyftems of botany, they 
fhould be included in the fame genus j but this may 
not be quite fo proper in a body of gardening, for as 
thefe fruits have always paffed under different deno- 
minations, jfo if they are here joined together, it may 
occafion fome confufion among thofe who do not enter 
into the ftudy of botany. Mr. Ray has feparated thefe 
into different genera, and makes the difference of 
Goofeberry from the Currant, to confift in the firft 
having thorns on the branches, and the fruit growing 
Angle j whereas the latter hath fmooth branches, and 
the fruit growing in long bunches ; and although 
thefe differences may not be ftridly fcientific, yet it 
may be allowed fufficient to diftinguifh them among 
gardeners. 
The Characters are. 
The flower has a permanent entpalement of one leaf, cut 
into five fegments at the top, which is flwollen, concave , 
and coloured. It hath five [mall, obtufe, erehl petals , 
which rife from the border of the empalement •, and five 
awl-jhaped ftamina, which are inferted into the empale- 
ment, terminated by compreffed proftrate fummits. The 
germen is fituated below the flower, having a bifid ftyle 
crowned by an obtufe ftigma, and afterward becomes a glo- 
bular berry having a navel, with one cell, which is filled 
with roundifto compreffed feeds included in a pulp. 
This genus of plants is ranged by Dr. Linnseus in the 
firft fedion of his fifth clafs, intitled Pentandria Mo- 
nogynia, which contains thofe plants whofe flowers 
have five ftamina and one ftyle. 
The Species are, 
1. Grossularia ( Reclinatum ) ramis reclinatis aculeatis, 
pedunculis triphyllis. Goofeberry with reclining branches . 
armed with fpines , and a three-leaved foot-ftalk. Grof- 
fularia fpinofa, frudu obfeure purpurafeente. J. B. 1. 
48. Prickly Goofeberry with a dark purplifh fruit. 
2. Grossularia (Hirfuta) • ramis aculeatis, baccis 
hirfutis. Goofeberry with prickly branches and hairy berries. 
Groffularia frudu maximo hifpido margaritarum fere 
colore. Raii Hift. 1484, Goofeberry with a very large 
rough fruity almofi of a pearl colour. 
■ 3. Gaos- 
