feso G L Y 
Well niay they fear feme miferable end, 
horn gluttony and want at once attend. Drydeti. 
There is a morbid fort of gluttony, called fames canina, 
“ dog-like appetite,” Vv’ltich fometimes occurs, and ren¬ 
ders °tlie perfon feized witli it an objedt of pity : (fee 
Bulimia,-' vol. iii. p. 498.)—But profefled gluttons 
"may be reckoned amongft the monilers or nature. Some 
people think our James I. was in the right, when a inan 
being prefented to him that could eat a whole fheep af 
one meal, he alked “What he could then do m-ore than 
' another man ?” and being anfwered “ He could not do 
fo much,” faid, “Hang'him then; for it is unfit that 
any fubjeft fhould live that eats fo much as twenty men, 
and cannot do fo much as one.” 
The emperor Clodius Albinus would devour more 
apples at once than a buniel would hold. Ife would eat 
five hundred figs at hife breakfad, one hundred peaches, 
ten melons, twenty pounds weight of grapes, and four 
hundred oyfters. “Pray God, (faid Liplius,) to keep 
Inch a curfe from the earth.”—Our Danifh king Hardi- 
knute was fo great a glutton, that an hidorian calls 
h'\n\ bocca de porco, “ fwine’s-mouth.” His tables vvere 
covered four times a-day with the mofi: coftly viands, 
upon which he gorged: and as he lived he died ; for, 
eating voracioully at a wedding-banquet at Lambeth, he 
fell down dead. His death was fo welcome to his fiib- 
iedls, that they annually celebrated the day with the 
feftival called ILck-tide. 
We are told by Fuller, that Nicholas Wood, of Har- 
jifon in Kent, ate a whole fheep at one meal, raw ; at 
another time, thirty dozen of pigeons. At fir William 
Sidley’s, in the fame county, he ate as much vidluals as 
would have fufficed thirty inen. At lord Wotton’s man- 
iion-houfe in Kent, lie devoured at one dinner eighty- 
four rabbits, which, by computation, at half a rabbit a 
man, w'ould have ferved one hundred and fixty-eight 
men. He ate at his breakfall eighteen yards of black¬ 
pudding. He devoured a hog at one fitting; and after 
it, being accommodated with fruit, he ate three pecks 
ot damtTfihs.—A barrirter, whofe name was Mallet, in 
the reign of Charles I. ate at one time a whole ordinary 
provided in Weftminfler for thirty men at twelve-pence 
a-piece. His fortune not being fufficient to fupply him 
with better fort of food, he fed generally on offals, ox- 
livers, hearts, &c. He lived to almoft fixty years of 
age, and for the feven lafl; years off his life ate as mode¬ 
rately as other men. 
GLU'Y. See Gluey. 
GLY'C'AS (Michael), a Greek hiftorian, fuppofed 
to have lived in tlie twelfth or thirteenth century ; but 
as there are letters in his name addreffed to the emperor 
Conftantine Paleologus, he is referred by Calfuner Oudin 
to the fifteenth century. He was a native of Byzantium, 
but fpent great part of his life in Sicily. It is not known 
what was his condition, but he appears to have been 
acquainted with theology, grammar, hiflory civil and 
eccle.fiafiical, and the other fciences; and the letters 
addreiled to him by prelates, dotlors, &c. fhew that he 
Itoodhigh iapublic reputation. He is principally known 
by his Annals, in four parts, containing the hiflory of 
the world from the creation to the birth of Chrifl, and 
that of the Byzantine emperors down to the death of 
Alexius Comnenas in 1118. Father Labbe gave an edi- 
tion.of the Annals of Glycas, Greek and Latin, folio, 
Paris, 1660, with notes; the tranllation is by Leuncla- 
vius, byt correfted by the editor. Meurfius publiihed 
feparately, the third part of the Annals, with a verfion 
and fcholia, but erroneoufly attributed to Theodore Me- 
tochites. Several letters of Glycas have alfo been pub- 
lifhed in different colledtions. 
GLY'ClN.E,yi [frorayAtijiti;, Gr. fweet.] In botany, 
a genus of the clafs diadelphia, order decandria, natural 
order of papillonaceie, or leguminofae. The generic cha- 
rafters arC'^Calyx: periaiithium one-leafed, comprelled; 
G L Y 
mouth two-lipped ; upper lip emarginate, obtufe ; lorver 
longer, trifid, acute; the middle tooth more produced. 
Corolla: papilionaceous; banner obcordate, the fidcsbent 
down, the back gibbous, the tip emarginate, ftraight, 
repelled, from the keel; wings oblong, towards the tip 
ovate, fmall, bent dov/nwards ; keel linear, fickle-fiiapcd, 
bent upwards, at the tip prelfuig the banner upwards, ob¬ 
tufe, towards the tip broader. Stamina: filaments dia- 
delphous, (fimple and nine-cleft) only a little divided at 
the tip, rolled back ; antherac fimple. Pilliilum : germ 
oblong; ftyle cylindric, rolled back in a fpiral; ftigma 
obtufe. Pericarpium : legume oblong. Seeds : kidney- 
form.— EJintial CharaEler. Calyx, two-lipped; corolla, 
the keel turning back the banner at the tip. 
Species, i. Glycine fubterranea, or procumbent gly¬ 
cine; leaves ternate, radical; llalks procumbent, flexu- 
ofe ; peduncles two-flowered. Root annual; flalks fe- 
veral, a fpan in length, very rigid, clofe to the ground, 
or defeending to it, round, hairy, uubranched ; leaves 
aliernate, upright, petioled ; leaflets fpreading, petioled, 
oblong, quite entire, emarginate, fmooth, veined, fiat, 
nearly equal; flowers upright, the fize of thofe in PJrvum 
tetrafpermum, and pale yellow ; legume lens-fiiaped, 
fmooth, containing, one round feed. As foon as it is out 
of flower the peduncle perforates the earth, as in Trifo¬ 
lium fubterraneiim and Aracliis hypoga;a, and the feeds 
ripen under ground. It is a native ot Brafil amd Suri¬ 
nam, whence it was brought in the year 1762 by Dahl- 
berg, and flowered in the bark-ftove in the botanic gar¬ 
den at Hpfal, but did not ripen its feed there. It is 
common on the eaftern coafl of Africa, the feeds which 
were brought thence by Lou.reiro grew', bore flowers 
and fruit for two years in Portugal, but the third year 
did not produce any feed. In Surinam it is cnWed gobbe- 
gobbe, and is planted there in a fandy foil with the addi¬ 
tion of a little clay. It bears abundance of fruit, which 
is a welcome repalt to the inhabitants, boiled whilft yet 
unripe, like peafe. 
2. Glycine monoica, or pale-flowered glycine: leaves 
ternate, almofl: naked ; flalks hairy, racemes pendulous", 
fruit-bearing flowers apetalous. Stalk grey, witfi re- 
verfed hairs ; flowers like th.ofe of Vicia cracca, witli 
the banner pale violet, the wings and keel white ; they 
have flamens and piftils, but the former being effete, 
they bear no fruit; the lower peduncles are longer, 
hanging down, and one-flowered; this flower has the 
rudiment of a calyx and piftil, but no corolla; it bears 
a legume containing one or two feeds. Flere, therefore,, 
tile laws of frudlification are the fame as in Viola mira. 
bills. This alfo perfedls the fruit under ground, like 
Lathyrus fubterraneus. Native of North America and 
Japan. It flowers here in September. 
3. Glycine debilis, or hairy glycine : leaves ternate ■; 
leaflets oval, hairy underneath ; legumes fubfolitary, 
linear, many-feeded; ftyle permanent, upright. Root 
biennial. Native of the Eaft Indies, where it was found 
by John Gerard Koenig, M.D. It flowers in June and 
... 
4. Glycine caribaen, or trailing glycine: leaves ternate, 
fubvillofe ; leaflets rhomb-fhaped ; racemes patulous; 
legumes hirfute; ftalk fltrubby, twining. Stems afh-co- 
loured, the thicknefs of a quill, fmooth ; the younger 
branches green and herbaceous. Native of the Weft. 
Indies. It was cultivated before 1742, by Robert James 
lord Petre; and flowers in September and October. 
5. Glycine triloba, or three-lobed glycine: leaves ter- 
nate; leaflets lobed ; ftalk proftrate; peduncles two- 
flowered. The whole plant is proftrate, and does not 
climb ; root annual. The flowers are yellow, fmall, 
and generally two together. Native of the Eaft Indies^ 
It, is probably a Phafeolus. 
6 . Glycine villofa, or villofe glycine: leaves tcjnate, 
three-lobed, villofe; racemes axillary. Stem filiform, 
angular, twining, flexuofe, toraentofe, as is alfo the 
whole plant. Native of Japan, 
7.. Gly„ 
