GAD 
in 1605. He became eminent in bis prcfeiTion ibroiigboiit 
the iflahd of Sicily, and was employed by the viceroys 
and nobility, who regarded him as the Hippocrates ol his 
country. lie taught tnedicitie near fifty years at Palermo, 
and had a great number of dilciples, who carried his fame 
over Italy, and to other parts of Europe. He wrote fe- 
veral works on medical fubjedts, which, however, liave 
probably been little read ell'ewhere; for Haller contents 
liimfelf with giving a bare lift of their titles. Galeano 
was a man of general knowledge, and diftinguiftied him- 
lelf among his countrymen as a philofopher, divine, and 
poet, as well as a phyficiaa. Of his poetical works feve- 
ral are dedicated to the celebration of Santa Rofalia, the 
patronefsof Palermo. He likewifc colledled the fugitive 
pieces of Sicilian poetry by other writers, and publiflied 
five volumes under the title of/.e He has 
met with many panegyrifts, who have extolled him as one 
of the great men of his age. He died at Palermo in 1675. 
GALEANTHRO'Pl A, _/i Gr. from 
yctXv), a cat, and a man.] A fpecies of madnefs, 
in which the patient fancies himfelf to be like a cat. 
GALEAS'SE, or Galleass, y. [galeas, Fr.] A Vene¬ 
tian low.built veffel, uftng both fails and oars, and is the 
l.argeft of all veffels that moves with oars. It will carry 
t.wenty guns, and has a ftern capable of holding a great 
number of marines. It has three mafts, which are never 
lowered or taken down. It has alfo thirty. tw'O benches 
of rowers; and to each bench fix flaves, who fit under 
cover. 
GA'LEATED, adj. [^galeatus, Lat.] Covered as with 
a helmet.—A galeated efchinus, copped, and in ftiape 
I'otuewltat more conic than any of the foregoing. Wood- 
Tvard .—[In botany.] Such plants as bear a flower re- 
lembling an helmet, as the monk’s-hood, &c. 
GALE'ED, [i. e. the heap of witnefs.] A heap of 
ftones reared by the patriarch Jacob, and his uncle Laban, 
in mousit Gilead, as a witnefs of the folemn covenant 
made with eacli other in the fight of heaven that neither 
fliould pafs tiiat heap to the injury of the other ; Laban 
gave it the name oi jegarfabadutha, and itwasthefpot 
on whiclt th.e city of Mizpah was'afterwards built. Gen, 
xxxi. 47, 48. 
GAL'EGA, yi [Italian, q. kerba gallica.'] In botany, 
a genus of the clafs diadelphia, order decandria, natural 
order papilionacete or leguminofse. The generic charac¬ 
ters are—Calyx : perianth one-leafed, tubular, fhort, 
half-five-cleft; teeth fiibulate, nearly equal. Corolla: 
papilionaceous j banner large, ovate, reflex at the end and 
on the fides; wings oblong, having an appendage, and 
being almoft the length of the banner ; keel oblong, com- 
preffed, ftraight tow'ards the end, gibbous below, fliarp 
above. Stamina: filaments diadelphous (fimple and nine- 
cleft) ; antheras oblong. Piftillum : germ flender, ob¬ 
long j ftyle flender, fhorter than the germ, afcending; 
fiignia a very fmall dot at the end. Pericarpium ; legume 
very long, compreflTed, acuminate, fcored with oblong 
freaks between the feeds. Seeds feveral, oblong-kidney- 
fhaped.— EJfential Char abler. Calyx: with fubulate teeth, 
nearly equal j legume with oblique freaks, between the 
feeds. 
Species, i. Galega officinalis, officinal galega, or goat’s- 
rue : legumes ftiff upright; leaflets lanceolate, ftreaked, 
naked. Root perennial, compofed of many ftrong fibres, 
which are frequently jointed j ferns channelled, hollow, 
from two to three, or even five, feet in height; leaves un- 
equally pinnate, compofed of five or feven (Haller fays 
time or ten) pairs of fmooth entire leaflets; flowers ter¬ 
minating, in loofe fpikes ; they are of a pale blue colour, 
appear in June, and are fucceeded by taper pods, about 
an inch and half in length, and ripening towards the end 
of Auguf. There is a variety with white, and another 
with variegated, flowers. Goat’s-rue is accounted cordial, 
fudorific,and alexipharmic. Mr. Boyle celebrates its vir¬ 
tues in peftilential and malignant difeafes. It is a native 
of Spain, Italy, Hungary, and Africa, it was cultivated by 
VoL. Vlll. No.4§3. 
Gcrarde in 1596. By fome miftake, this plant is Letdown 
by Parkinfon, as liaving been found wild near Linton in 
Cambridgt'iliire, where it was certainly never lecn grow'- 
ing wild by any pei fon. 
/ 3 . G. Atriciuia has. larger leaves, compofedof eight or 
ten }iairs of leaflets, broader and blunter ; the flowei ;. are 
larger, the fpikes longer, and the feed-pods much thicker. 
'2. Galega cinerea, or cinereous galega: legumes-fiif' 
fpreadiiig, r.icemes oppofite to the leaves, pedicels folita- 
ry ; leaflets villole underneath, fipules lanceolate, 'l iiis 
is a fmall herbaceous plant, fomewhat of aji alh colour, 
feldom growing above eleven or twelve inciies in height ; 
it is common among the buflies in all the favannas about 
Kingfton in Jamaica. 
3. Galega littoralis, or fliore galega : legumes in ra¬ 
cemes, the whole viljofe-tomentofe. Stems round, 
branched, villofe, procumbent unlefs it be fupported by 
neiglibouring fltrubs ; flowers fielh-coloured, inodorous ; 
feeds variegated. Native of Carthagena in America, on 
fandy fliores ; and every where between tlie tropics. 
4. Galega Virginiana, or Virginian galega : legumes 
back-fickled compielfed villofe fpiked, calyxes woolly, 
leaflets oval-oblong acuminate. Root perennial; ftem 
annual, three feet high, ereft. Tlte whole pla.nt is co¬ 
vered vvitl) a lilvery down ; flowers red, in fpikes at tl:e 
ends of the branches. Inhabits North America. 
5. Galega villofa, or hairy galega : legumes back-fick- 
led villofe pendulous racemed lateral, leaflets fmooth 
lanceolate. Procumbent. Native of the Eaft Indies. 
6. Galega Ipinofa, or prickly galega : leguntes folita- 
ry back-fickled comprefl'ed, ftipules fpinefeent, leaflets 
wedge-fnaped hoary, flem diffafed. Found in CGioman- 
del by Konig. 
7. Galega maxima, or gi eat galega : legumes ftiff af¬ 
cending fmooth, ftipules lanceolate, leaflets oblong finootli 
ftreaked. This is the large!}: of the genus ; and a native 
of Ceylon. 
8. Galega grandifiora, or rofe-coloured galega; le- 
ginnes fpreading, ftipulesovate-ianceoiate, leaflets oblong; 
almoft naked awned. Stem fhrubby, round, branched, 
having very minute hairs fcattered over it. Native of the 
Cape of Good Hope, wiience it was introduced by Mr. 
Francis Mallbn iu 1774. 
9. Galega palleus, or pale-coloured galega: legumes 
ftilf fpreading dilate, ftipules av/l-lhaped, leaflets (nine 
to eleven) oblong lharp pubefeent underneath. Native 
of the Cape of Good Hope ; flowers in July. 
10. Galega pifeatoria, or woolly galega ; legumes ftiff 
afcending fubvillofe, ftipulesawl-fliaped, leaflets (eleven 
to thirteen) oblong blunt fomewhat hairy underneath, 
peduncles ancipital. Native of India and the South Sea. 
iflands ; introduced in 1778, by Patrick Riilfel, M. D, 
It flowers in June and July. 
11. Galega purpurea, or purple galega : legumes ftilf 
afcending fmooth racemed terminating, ftipules awl-ftiap- 
ed, leaflets oblong fmooth. Perennial; ftem lei's angu¬ 
lar and ftraighter than the feventh, reddifti. Mr. Miller 
fays, this plant was annual here ; that it had an herbace¬ 
ous ftalk, two feet high ; that the leaves had eigiit online 
pairs of leaflets 5 that the peduncles came out oppofite 
to thefe; and that the flowers were fmall, purple, in a 
Icofe fpike, and fucceeded by flender ered: pods. He re¬ 
ceived the feeds from Ceylon and many other parts of the 
Eaft Indies. It was cultivated in 1768, by him j and 
flowers in July and Aiignft. 
12. Galega Caribsa, or Caribbean galega: legumes 
ftiff fmooth pendulous racemed, leaflets fmooth niucro- 
nate, ftem fhrubby. This is an upright branched flender 
ftirub, two feet high ; flowers inodorous, red and white 
variegated; the two upper fegments of the calyx lefs 
deeply cut, and fliorter than the others, and the loweft 
fegment longer than any; feeds black, fhining. Native 
of the Caribbee iflands. 
13. Galega ccerulea, or blue galega: racemes termi¬ 
nating many-flowered contraded, leaflets (eight to ten 
Z z pairs) 
