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ry Gahn, author of Fundamenta Agrnjl'ographta.'y In bota¬ 
ny, a genus of the clafs hexandria, order tnonogynia. 
'1 he generic charadlers are—Calyx : glinne one-valved, 
ovate-lanceolate, convolute, two or five-flowered, Forjl .— 
two-valved, one-flowered; valves lanceolate, channelled, 
acuminate; the outer longer, broader, Linn. Corol¬ 
la : glume two-valved, thorter than the calyx ; valves 
ovate-lanceolate,' acuminate, concave ; the outer a little 
longer ; nectary two-valved, hyaline, involving the fila. 
ments ; outer valve larger, ovate, concave, three-toothed 
at the tip, F. (wedge-fliaped with a point, L.) half the 
length of the corolline glume; inner ovate, entire, very 
fmall. Stamina: filaments fix, capillary, fhort, after 
flowering elongated ; antherae linear, acuminate. Piftil- 
.^m : germ oblong ; flyle filiform, ered't, longer than the 
calyx, bifid ; ftigmas in each divifion of the calyx two, 
capillary, curved back. Pericarpium : none. Seed 
Angle, oblong, fiibangular, fmooth, furrounded by the 
elongated filaments, fo as to be double the length of the 
corolline glume, permanent. —LJfcntial Charafler. Glume 
two-valved, irregular; neiSlary two-valved, involving 
the filaments; ftigmadichotomous. 
Species, i. Gahnia procera : panicles fpiked, (everal 
elongated, florets fix-ftamened. Culm half a fathom in 
height, round, fmooth, upright, reclining at top, the 
thicknefs of a pigeon’s quill; leaves fword-fhaped, longer 
than the culm, narrow, briftle-fliaped at the tip, reclin¬ 
ing, concave at the bafe, flieathing, rough at the edge 
with rows of minute fpinules, alternate; panicles in 
fpikes, ftiff, feveral, from the flieaths of the leaves, 
coming out in whorls at each joint of the culm, purple ; 
flowers purple, in involucres half an inch in length ; 
feeds brown ; number of ftamens in the lower flowers 
feven or eight, but the upper ones have always fix ; the 
lower panicles are often deftitute of involucres, and there¬ 
fore bear naked flowers. Native of New Zealand ; found 
jnDnfkybay, April ii, 1773. 
2. Gahnia fchoenoides : culms flexuofe, panicles com- 
pound fpiked rigid fubfolitary. Native of Otaheite. It 
may probably be a Schoenus. 
GA'IA, a town of Italy, in the Modenefe: twenty 
miles fouth of Modena. 
GAICHI'ES (John), an efleemed French writer, born 
in 1648. He became a pried of the Oratory, was made 
prebendary of Soilfons, and chofen member of the acade¬ 
my in that city. For thirty years he officiated as a preach¬ 
er in Soiffons, and in his own life exhibited a commenda¬ 
ble pattern of the piety and virtues which he enforced on 
his hearers. He (hone in the character of a polite feho- 
lar ; and after he became member of the academy at Soif-’ 
fons, was frequently employed to draw up the academic 
dilcottrfes, which were annually prefented to the French 
academy. Some difference of opinion having arifen be¬ 
tween him and Langlet, bifhop of Soiffons, which ren¬ 
dered his fittiation in that city lefs agreeable than former¬ 
ly, he refigned his prebend, and removed to Paris, where 
he died in 1731, at eighty-three years of age. The Aca¬ 
demic Difeourfes which be publilhed, were ten in num¬ 
ber ; and are inferted in the collcdlions of the French 
academy. He was alfo the author of Maxims for the 
I’fe of Pulpit Orators. M. Gaichies’ Difeourfes, and 
the piece laft mentioned, were publilhed at Paris in 1739, 
with a preface by the abbe Lavarde. 
GAIDAROTHY'MO,/. in botany. See Stachvs 
SriNosA. 
CjAIDRONI'SA, a fmall ifland in the Mediterranean, 
near the,fouth coalt of Candia. Lat. 34. 48. N. Ion. 43. 
31. E. Ferro. 
GAl'GNY, or Gagny (John), in Latin GACNiEus, 
a learned French divine in the lixteenth century, firlt-al- 
nioner to Francis 1 . and a native of Paris. He had taken 
the degree of baclielorin 1526, at which time beheld the 
appointment of procureur, or attorney, for the French na- 
tion in the univerfity. In 1529 he delivered a courfe of 
lechires on fcholaftic theology in the college of Navarre, 
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with great applaufe ; was made refbor of the umvcrtlty 
in 1531 ; received tlie bonnet of do6tor of divinity iii the 
fame year ; and filled the poll of chancellor of the uni- 
verllty from 1546 until his death, which took place to¬ 
wards tile clofe of the year 1549. He was intimately con- 
verfant with the learned languages, an able divine, and a 
refpedlable Latin poet. Francis I. entertained a great re¬ 
gard for him, and often confulted him on fubjedls con. 
iiedled with theinterefts of literature. He publilhed, in 
J547, an edition of The Pfalms, in which the vulgar 
Latin tranflation is accompanied w'itli three forts of para- 
phraftic lyric vei fes ; a French tranflation of the Com¬ 
mentaries of Primafius on St. Paul’s Epiftles, 1540 ; a 
French tranflation of the Sermons of Guerriens, abbot of 
Igny ; The Life of Alcimus Avitus; and the Hiflory 
of the taking of Jerufalem, by Apollonius Collatius, 
Priefl of Novara, 1540. But his mod important works 
confift of fhort Commentaries, upon the different books 
of the New Teftament, in which he explains the literal 
fenfe by a kind of paraphrafe, and mod commonly follows 
the Greek text and the bed Greek interpreters. He be. 
gan with Scholia upon St. Paul’s Epidles, printed in 
1539. In 1543 he publilhed a new edition of the preced¬ 
ing, confiderably enlarged, and Scholia upon The gene¬ 
ral Epidles, and upon The Revelation. His Scholia up¬ 
on The Gofpels, and The A6ls of the Apodles, were 
not publilhed till after his death in 1552. Thefe Scholia 
are inferted in the Biblia Magna of father John de la 
Haye. 
GAIL'DORF, or Gail'endorf, a towm of Germany, 
in tlie circle of Swabia, and lordfliip of Limburg ; five 
miles fouth of Hall, in Swabia, and thirty-eight wed- 
fouth-vved of Anfpach. 
GAILLAC', a town of France, and principal place of 
adiftridl, in the department of the Tarn. Itisaplaceof 
confiderable trade, and the vine which grows on the hills 
in tlie environs is much edeemed. It is fituated on the 
Tarn, which is here navigable ; nine leagues north-ead of 
Touloufe, and eight north-north-wed of Cadres. Lat. 43. 
53. N. Ion. 19. 53. E. Ferro. 
GAILLAC', a town of France, in the department of 
the Aveiron, and chief place of a canton, in the didri'ft 
of Severac-le-Chareau : feven miles north-wed of Se- 
verac. 
GAILLAC', f. A kind of French wine fo called from 
the place where it is made. Phillips. 
GAILLAC' TOUL'ZA, a town of France, in the de. 
partment of the Upper Garonne, and cliief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the didridl of Rieiix : four leagues ead of Rieux, 
and feven fouth of Touloufe. 
GAILLAR DIA,/. in botany. See Galardia. 
GAILLEFONTAI'NE, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Lower Seine, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the didridf of Neufchatel : three leagues fouth- 
ead of Neufchatel, and three fouth-wed of Aumale, 
GAILLON', a town of France, in the department of 
tlie Eure, and chief place of a canton, in the didrifl 
of Louviers. Near it is a celebrated Caithufian monadea 
ry, burnt down in 1764; and fince rebuilt vrith fuperior 
elegance. It has been the burial-place of numbers of the 
royal family of France : three leagues north-wed of Ver¬ 
non, and two and a half fouth-ead of Louviers. 
GAILOV'SKOI, a fortrefs of Ruflta, in the govern¬ 
ment of Caucafus, on the Ural; twelve miles north-ealt 
of Urallk. 
GAI'LY, adv. Airily; cheerfully. Splendidly, See 
Gayly. 
GAI'MERSHEIM, a town of Germany, in Upper 
Bavaria: two miles north.wed of Ingoldadt, and nine 
ead-north-eaft of Neuburg. 
GAIN,/, Fr.] Profit; advantage; contrary to 
lofs. —It is in praife of men as in gettings and gains ; light 
gains make heavy purfes; for light gains come thick, 
whereas great come but now and then. Bacon. —Intcred j 
lucrative views; 
That, 
