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hiiTute, tlie terminating leaflet petioled, Tliis lias much 
the appearance of the two foregoing forts, but the pods 
are hairy and longer. Native of the Levant; whence the 
feeds were fent to Paris by Tournefort. 
4. Glycyrrhiza afperima, or rough liquorice: legumes 
fmooth ; leaflets elliptic, cufped ; (talk hifpid, fcabrous. 
This has rather the air of an Aftragaliis. Root Iknder 
and very long, extremely fvveet, efpecially in the fpring. 
The flower pale violet. Difcovered by Pallas, on landy 
hills between the Wolga and the Jaick. 
Propagation and Culture. This plant delights in a light 
fandy foil, which Ihould be three feet deep at lead, for 
the goodnefs of liquorice conlilts in the length of the 
roots : the ground in which you intend to plant liquo¬ 
rice, fliould be well dug and dunged the year before 
you plant it, that the dung may be perfedfly rotted, and 
mixed with the earth, otherwife it will be apt to flop 
the roots from running down ; and before you plant it, 
the ground fliould be dug three fpades deep, and laid 
very light; when your ground is thus well prepared, 
you fliould turnifli yourfelf with frelli plants taken from 
the Tides or lieads of the old roots, obfevving that they 
have ;i good bud or eye, otherwife they are fubjeiSt to 
Jiiilcarry ; thefe plants fliould be about ten inches long, 
and perfedtly found. 
The beft teaion for planting tliem is in the beginning 
or middle ot March, which uiuft be done in the follow¬ 
ing manner, viz. Firft flrain a line acrofs the ground in 
which you would plant them, then with a long dibble 
made on purpofe, put in the ilioot, fo that the whole 
plant may be fet ftraight into the ground, with the 
head about an inch under the furface in a ftiaight line, 
about a toot afunder, or more, in the rows, and two 
feet diftance row fretm row ; and after having finiflied 
the whole fpot of ground, you may fow a thin crop of 
onions, which being plants that do not root deep into 
the ground, nor fpread much above, w'ill do the liquo. 
rice no damage tlie firft year ; for the liquorice will not 
flioot very high the firft feafon, and the hoeing of the 
onions will alfo keep the ground clear from wmeds ; but 
in doing of this you muft be careful not to cut off the 
top flioots ot the liquorice plants when they appear 
above ground, ivhich \vould greatly injure them; and 
allb obl'erve to cut up all the onions which grow near 
the heads of the liquorice ; and after your onions are 
pulled up, you Ihould carefully hoe and clean the 
ground from weeds ; and in Odlober, when the flioots 
ot the liquorice are decayed, you fliould fpread a little 
very rotten dung upon the furface of the ground, which 
will prevent tlie weeds from growing during the winter, 
and the rain will wafli the virtue of the dung into the 
ground, which will greatly improve the plants. In the 
beginning of March following you fliould flightly dig 
the ground between the rows of liquorice, burying the 
remaining part of the dung ; but in doing of tliis, you 
Ihould be very careful not to cut the roots. The flir- 
ring of the ground will not only preferve it clean from 
weeds a long time, but alio greatly ftrengthen the plants. 
The diftance allowed for planting thefe plants, will, 
by Ionic, be thought too great ; but, as the largenefs of 
the roots is the chief advantage to the planter, fo the 
only method to obtain this is by giving them room ; 
and befides, tliis w ill give a greater liberty to ftir and 
drefs the ground, which is of great lervice to liquorice ; 
and if the plantation deligued were to be of an extra¬ 
ordinary bigncls, we fliould advife the rows to be made 
at leaft three teet diflant, whereby it will be ealy to ftir 
tile ground with a breaft plough, which will greatly 
leflen the expence of labour. "Thefe plants fliould re¬ 
main three years from the time of planting, when they 
will be fit to take up for ufe, which fliould not be done 
until the ftalks are perfeftly decayed ; for when it is 
taken up too foon, it is fubjedl to flirink greatly, and 
lofe ot its w-eight. Tlie ground near London, being 
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rich, iiicreafes the bulk of the root very fall; but, when 
it is taken up, it appears of a very dark colour, and 
not near fo Tightly as that which grows upon a fandy 
foil in an open country. See Abrus, Astragalus, 
and SoPHOR A. 
GLYCO'NIAN, at//. In ancient poetry; belonging 
to a verfe confifting of three feet, a I'pondee, a chori- 
ambus, and a pyrrhichius. 
GLYM'PES, in ancient geography, a tow'ii on tlie 
borders of the Lacedasmonians and Mefleiiians. Polybius. 
GLYN, f. [Irifli ; gkann, glyn, plur. Hrfe ; gleiw, 
Scottifli.] A hollow between two mountains. See 
Glen. —Though he could not beat out the Irifli, yet 
he did fliut them up within thofe two narrow corners 
and glyns under the mountain’s foot. Spenfer. 
GLYNN, a county of the American States, in the 
Lower diftridt of Georgia, bounded call by the ocean, 
north by Alatamaha river, which feparates it from Li¬ 
berty county, and fouth by Camden county. Chief 
town, Brunfwick. 
GLYPH, f. [in fculpture and architedlure.] Any 
canal or cavity ufed as an ornament. 
GLY'PHICE, f. [yXtipiKij, of yXvtpu, Gr. to carve or 
engrave.] The art of carving, cutting, or catting, the 
images or refemblances of natural things in metal. ■ 
GLYP'TIC, adj. [yAeTrroj, Gr.] Appertaining to 
fculpture. 
GME'LIN (John George, M.D.), public lecturer on 
botany and medicine at Tubingen, member of the royal 
fociety of Gottingen, and of the academy of fcience.s 
at Stockholm, born the 12th of Augiift, 1709, at Tu¬ 
bingen, where his father relided as an apothecary. 
While at fchool he applied with fo much diligence, 
that when only fourteen years of age, he was able to 
attend the academical ledfures in the place of his nati¬ 
vity. He took the ddgree of NI. D. there in 1727. 
Some of his former teachers having about this time been 
invited to Peterlburgh, he refoly.ed to pay a vilit to that 
capital, where he foon formed an acquaintance with 
Blumentroft, the diredtor of the academy, who not only 
permitted him to be prefent at the meetings of tlie 
members, and to have accefs to the mufeum, but ob. 
tained for him, in 1728, an annual penfion. He at length 
acquired fo much efteem at Peterflmrgh, that being de- 
firous in 1729 to return to Tubingen, he was honoured 
with a place among the regular members of the acade¬ 
my, and in 1731. he was appointed profefforof chemiftry 
and natural hiltory. The Ruflian government wilhing' 
to carry into execution a plan, formed by Peter the 
Great, of fending a fociety of learned men to explore 
the boundaries of Siberia, and to determine whether 
a paffage to China and Japan could be opened by fea 
along the coafts of the Rullian empire, Gmelin, G. F. 
Muller, with Louis de I’lfle de la Croyere, were I'e- 
ledfed for this purpofe, and fet out on their journey, at 
the expence of the government, on the 19th of Auguft, 
1733. The department of natural hillory was alligned 
to Gmelin, tliat relating to manners and cuftoms to 
Muller, and the geographical part to de I’lfle. In the 
month of February, 1743, Gmelin returned fafe to Pe¬ 
terlburgh, after having employed nine years and a half 
in this long and ard\ious journey, which proved highly 
interefting to tlie fciences ; and he relumed the offices 
he had before filled. In 1747 he paid a vifit to his na¬ 
tive country, and during his abfence was-appointed to 
the profelforlhip vacant by the death of Bachmeifler, 
w-hicli he entered upon in 1749. He was attacked in 
May, 1755, by a violent fever, of which he died, in the 
forty-fifth year of his age. Gmelin was one of the 
greateft botanills of the eighteenth century, and lias 
rendered himlelf celebrated by his Flora Siberica, Jev, 
Hijioria Plantarum Siberite, Petrop.’1747, 1749, two parts, 
large quarto, with one luindred plates : th.e third and 
fourth parts were publilhed by S, G. Gmelin. This 
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