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Galaftophagi between the Riphaean mountains on one 
fide, and the liircanian fea on the other. 
GALACTOPH'AGIST,y; \_galaElophagus, Lat.of ya- 
ya.y.'vopot.y^, of milk, and (paya, to eat.] A milk- 
eater, a milk-fop. 
G ALACT. OPH^OR A,y”. [yaAas'lo^o^a, from 7aAa,milk, 
and (ps^a, to carry.] Medicines which increafe or purify 
the milk. The ladleal veffels are alfo called duElus ga- 
laBopkori. 
G ALACTOPO'SIAjy*. ^ya 7 .ciKlo'n'oa'iCi, from 7a?va,miik, 
and TTiviyi to drink.] The practice of curing difeafes by a 
milk-diet. 
GA'LACZ, or Ga lasi, or Galat/., a town of Euro¬ 
pean Turkey, in Bulgaria, near the Danube : one hundred 
and twenty miles fouth-fouth-wefl: of Bender, and fifty- 
four weft of Ifmael. Lat. 45. 24. N. Ion. 46. lO. E. of 
Ferro. 
GALA^GE,/. A ftiepherd’s clog. Notinuje: 
My heart-blood is well nigh frorne, 1 feel; 
And my galage grown faft to my heel. Spenfer. 
GALAM', a fort of Africa, built by the French on 
the river Senegal, ceded to the Englifti by the peace of 
Verfailles, in 1763. During the American war it w'as 
taken by the French, in whofe poflefTion it remained by 
the peace of 1783. 
GALAM. See Gallam. 
GAL AN', or G a clan, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Higher Pyrenees, and chief place of a 
canton,in the diftridl of Tarbes: fiveleagnes eaft of Tarbes. 
GALAN'GA, and GA'LANGALE, f. in botany. 
See KAiMPFEiiiA and Maranta. 
GALAN'THIS, in mythology, a fervant of Alcmena, 
■whofe fagacity eafed the labours of her miftrefs. When 
Juno refolved to retard the birth of Hercules, and haften 
the labours of the wife of Sthenelus, (he folicited the aid 
of Lucina ; who immediately repaired to the houl'e of 
Alcmena, and in the form of an old woman, fat near the 
door with her legs crolfed, and her fingers joined. In 
this pofture fhe uttered fome magical words, which fer- 
■ved as a charm to prolong the labours of Alcmena, and 
render lier (late the more miferable, Alcmena had palled 
I'ome days in the moft excruciating torments, when Ga- 
lanthis began to liifpeift the jealoufy of Juno ; and con¬ 
cluded that the old woman, who continued at the door 
always in the fame unchanged pofture, was the inftru- 
jnent of the anger of the goddefs. With fuch fufpicions 
Galanthis ran out of the houfe, and with a countenance 
exprefiive of joy, (he informed the old woman that her 
miftrefs had juft brought forth. Lucina, at the words, 
rofe from her pofture, and that inftant Alcmena was fafely 
delivered. The loud laugh which Galanthis raifed upon 
this, made Lucina fufpeift that (lie had been deceived. 
She feized Galanthis in a rage, and threw her on the 
ground; but while (he attempted to refift, (lie was chan¬ 
ged into a weafel, and condemned to bring forth her 
young, in the moft agonizing pains, by the mouth, by 
which fhe had uttered falfehood. This transformation 
alludes to a vulgar notion among the antienis, who be¬ 
lieved this of the weafel, becaufe (lie carries her young 
in her mouth, and continually (hitts them from place to 
place. The Boeotians paid great veneration to the wea- 
iel-, which, as they fuppofed, facilitated the iabours of 
Alcmena. Mlian. 
G ALAN'THUS, y. [from yaXa. and avflo?, milk and 
flower: focalled from the milky whitenefs of the corolla.] 
In botany, a genus of the clafs hexandria, order niono- 
gynia, natural order of fpathaceae, (narcifti, JvJJ.) The 
generic charadters ave-^Calyx : fpathe oblong, obtufe, 
compreffed, gaping’on the flat fide, witliering. Qorolla: 
petals three; oblong,' obtufe, concave, lax, ■oatulous, 
equal: nectary cylirrdnc, three-leav-ed, half the length of 
tliC' petals; leaflets-petal-fliaped, • parallel, einarginate, 
(Sibtuie. Stamina: filaments capillary, very (hort: an- 
fherae oblong, acuminate, ending in a briftle, convergent. 
Piftillum: germ globular, inferior : ftyle filiform, longer 
than the ftamens : ftigma fimple. Pericarpium : capfulc 
oval-globular, obtufely three-fided, tliree-celled, three, 
valved. Seeds feveral, globular.— EJfenlial Charackr, 
Petals: three conc&vej neftary of three finall emarginate 
petals; ftigma fimple. 
Galanthus nivalis, or fnow-drop, a fingle fpecies. Thd 
bulb of the fnowdrop is coated and truncate. Leaves 
yellowifh at the bafe, callous at the tips. Scape half a 
foot or a fpan in height, ancipital, ftriated, involved at 
the bafe in a pair of leaves : (heath whitifli, truncate, in¬ 
volving the leaves and fcape. The peduncle ufually 
comes out from the left cell of the fpathe, is weak, and 
wrinkled below the germ, Flow'ers folitary, pendulous ; 
petals milk-white. Nedtary (or inner fmaller petals) ha¬ 
ving on tlie outiide above the middle a green heart-fha- 
ped fpot, and on the infide fix yellowifti green lines. An. 
therae opening at the tip; filaments twice their length, 
and fpringing each from a cavity which has a rim round 
it. Capfule half an inch long. Seeds oblong, four to 
twelve in one cell, each adhering to the receptacle by its 
proper hook. It varies with, double flowers. Native of 
Swillerland, Auftri:a, SileCa, England, &c. in meadows. 
Common in orchards, where it is probably a relique of 
cultivation. At the. foot of Malvern hills, where no 
traces of buildings or gardens are to be found. Near 
Cirencefter, &c. but it is very doubtful whether this, 
and feveral oth.er bulbous plants were originally indige¬ 
nous. It flowers ufually in February, hence its name"in 
fome places of Fair Maids of February. In the Rev. 
Gilbert White’s Nuturalift’s Calendar, tlte fnowdrop is 
marked to blow from Jan. 10 to Feb. 5, 
Thefe flowers are valued for their early appearance in 
tlie I'pring, for they ufually flower in February, when the 
ground is often covered with fnovv. The fingle fort 
comes out the firft, and though the flow'ers are but fmall, 
yet when they are in bunches, tliey ma'Ke a very pretty 
afipearance; therefore thefe roots ftiould not be planted 
fingle, as is fometimes praitifed by way of edging to bor¬ 
ders; for wlieh they are fo difpofed, they make very lit¬ 
tle appearance. But when there are twenty or more roots 
growing in a clofe bunch, the flowers have a very good 
.eftedf ; and as thefe flowers thrive well under trees or 
hedges, tliey are very proper to plant on the Tides of the 
Avood-walks, and in wildernefs quarters; where, if they 
are fuffered to remain undifturbed, the roots will multiply 
exceedingly. Thefe may be taken up at the end of June., 
when the leaves decay, and may be kept out of the 
ground till the end of Auguft; but they muft not be re- 
iiioved oftener than every third year. See Leucoium. 
GALA'NUS (Clement), an Italian who was fent 
milTionary into Armenia, where he continued for feveral 
years. After his return to Rome lie publiflied, in 1650, 
a laborious work in two volumes folio, confiding of trea- 
tifes in the Armenian language, accompanied witli La¬ 
tin tranllatioiis, and a great variety of notes, argumenta¬ 
tive, hiftorical, and theological, entitled, ConciUationes 
Ecclefice Armcna cum Romana, &c. and is intended to (hew, 
that the Armenians differ very little from the Latins ia 
their religious opinions. It was publidied in aid of a 
fyftein, according to which the miffionaries were diretffed, 
by artful compliances, and explanations adapted to the 
prejudices of the Greeks, to fol'ten theiraiitipa.thy againft 
the Latin cliurch, and infenfibly to bring them under the 
papal jurifdidtion. Galanus was alfo the author of a 
Grammarof theAnnenian Language, and a Syfteni of Lo¬ 
gic, ill the fame, piiblifhed at Rome in 1645. 
GALAR'DIA,yi [named firft Gaillardia, by Monf. 
Fougerouxde Boiidaroy, from Monf. Gaillard oi' Charen- 
tonneau.] In botany, a genus of the clafs fyiigenefia, or¬ 
der polygamia fruftranea, natural order corymbiferae. 
The generic charaflers are—Calyx : common of two rows 
of fcales ; fcales linear, flat, acute, about twelve in each 
row ; the outer longer, refle/. : the inner erect, Corol. 
la; compound radiate; coroUets hermaphrodite, numc- 
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