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laadelphia, order polyandria ; or clafs polyandria, order 
monogynia ; natural order columnifera;, (malvacese, 
JuJf.) The generic characters are—Calyx : perian- 
thium (double ; outer tour-leaved, deciduous ; Cavan.) 
inner five-leaved ; leaflets roundilli, concave, (ciliate, 
permanent. Corolla; petals five, obovate, 
concave, large, united at the bafe, (one of them ciliate, 
W.) Stamina: filaments numerous, filiform, coalefcing 
at the bale into an obtufe body, (campanulate, rvith a 
five-cleft/border, W.) anthers oval, upright. Piftillum : 
germ ovate. Style (hort, five-cornered; (cylindric, IV:) 
itigmas five, fliarp, horizontal. (Stigma five-corneted, 
JV.) Pericarpium : capfule ovate, fliarp, five-celled : 
cells bifid half-way, five-valved. Seeds : two, with a 
leafy wing on one fide. (Seeds in two rows in each cell. 
VHerit.)—EJJlntlal CharaBer. Calyx, five-leaved ; petals, 
five ; united at tlie bale by means of the netlary ; fila¬ 
ment, inferted into the nedtary; capfule, fuperior, five- 
celled ; feeds winged. 
Thefe are flirubs with flowers folitary from the axils. 
In habit they differ fomewhat from the Malvaceous tribe, 
and they have no flipules, but the corcle or heart of the 
feed is furniflied with corrugated lobes. The filaments 
not being united at bottom, but only inferted into the 
nedtary, thefe flirubs do not properly belong to the clafs 
Monadelphia, but to that of Polyandria. 
Species. I. Gordonia lafianthus, or fmooth loblolly 
bay : leaves leathery, fmooth on both fides, flowers pe- 
d’uncled. Cateflay delcribes the loblolly bay as a tall 
and very ftraight tree, with a regular pyramiddal head, 
and adds tiiat ' the leaves are fliaped like thole of the 
common bay, but are ferrated. Swartz fays it is a low 
tree, with a w'hite, foft, brittle wood ; the leaves ovate- 
lanceolate, flat, fomewhat leathery, of a dulky green 
colour. According to Mr. Miller, the Item is five or 
fix feethigh, and branched ; the leaves fourinches long, 
and one inch and a half broad in the middle, (lightly in¬ 
dented on their edges, and of a thick confiftence; the 
flowers axillary, on very long peduncles ; the petals are 
yellow and thick ; the flamens are joined at their bale 
to the flyle, and form a fliort column, but fpread opeji 
at top, filling the mouth of the tube. Native of Ncrlli 
America. Introduced about lyCiS, by Benjamin Bewick, 
efq. It flowers in Augufl: and September. Dr. Dale 
fent feeds of it to Mr. Miller from South Carolina, and 
he raifed plants from them. 
2. Gordonia pubefeens, or pubefeent loblolly bay : 
leaves pubefeent beneath, flowers fubfeffile. Branches 
fubpubefeent. lleaves as in the foregoing, but with the 
lower furface very foftly tomentofe. Flowers axillary, 
folitary, fellile towards the tops of tiie branches. Na¬ 
tive of South Carolina ; flowers in September. It has 
been long in the open air in the garden at Trianon in 
France ; but, like the reft of the trees and flirubs from 
South Carolina, not very patient of cold. The flowers 
are whjte, but they come out lb late, that the froft de- 
ftroys tliem before they expand. 
3. Gordonia Franklini, or Franklin’s Gordonia : 
leaves fmooth, flowers fellile, fruits globular. This 
beautiful tree-like Ihrub riles with an erect trunk to the 
height of about twenty feet, with alternate branches. 
Leaves oblong, narrowed towards the bafe, ferrate, al¬ 
ternate, fellile or fubfeffile. I'lowers towards the ex¬ 
tremity of the branches, folitary, fitting clofe in the bo- 
fom of the leaves, often five incites in diameter w'hen 
fully expanded ; petals fnow-white, the lower one hol- 
lo'w, formed like a cap or helmet, entirely including the 
other four, until the moment of expanlion ; its exterior 
furface is covered with a Ihort lilky hair ; tlie borders 
of the petals are curled or plaited. Fruit, a large, 
round, dry, woody, pericarp, openingat eacii end oppo- 
litely by five alternate filfures, containing ten cells, 
each filled with dry woody cuneiform feeds. Capfuies 
umbilicate, with the partitions in the middle of the 
valves. Seeds very many, lying over each #ther in two 
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rows, in each cell, obfeurely cornered, fomewhat like 
thofe of the cyprefs, (lightly edged at the corners. 
Native of South Carolina and Georgia. Not having 
y^et flowered in Europe, it is doubtful whether tliis 
ipecies belongs to the genus Gordonia or Stuartia. As 
far as can be judged from fpecimens, it rather apper¬ 
tains to the latter. It has the habit and calyx of the 
former, but the infertion of the ftamens, and tlie manner 
of flowering, are the fame as in Stuartia ; • the capfule 
alfo agrees rather with the latter, but the feeds are in 
two rows, edged however at the corners, not winged as 
in Gordonia. The flowers have the fragrance of a 
China orange. It was firft obferved by Mr, John Bar- 
tram on the Alatamalia river, in Georgia, in the year 
1760; and was brought into Pennfylvania fifteen years 
alter, by his fon William Bartram. 
Propagation and Culture. The loblolly hay, growing 
naturally in water, is not kept alive in this country with¬ 
out difficulty. iVIr. Miller raifed feveral plants, which 
continued till winter, but not one of tliem furvived, 
though he placed fome of them in the Ifove, and fup- 
plied them well with water. 
GORE, f. [gope, Sax._g#r, V.^elfli, famous matter.] 
Blood effuled from the body : 
Another’s crimes the youth unhappy bore. 
Glutting his father’s eyes witii guiltlefs Drydcn, 
Blood clotted or congealed : 
His horrid beard and knotted treffes flood 
Stiff with his^orc, and all his wounds ran blood. Denham. 
In heraldry ; one of the abatements of honour, two dia¬ 
gonal lines crofting one another. In old records ; a nar¬ 
row piece of land, a flip of ground. A (lanting piece 
fewed on to a garment in order to widen it.. 
To GORE,u.a. [gelepian, Saxon. ] To ftab ; topierce. 
No weaker lion’s by a ftronger flain ; 
Nor from liis larger tulks the foreft boar 
Commilfion takes his brother fwine to gore. Tate, 
To pierce with a horn.—Some tofs’d, fome ^or’af, fome 
trampling down he kill’d. Dryden. 
He idly butting, feigns 
His rival gor’ial in every knotty trunk. Thomfon's Spring, 
GORE’S ISLAND, an ifland in the North Pacific 
Ocean. Lat. 60. 40. N. Ion. 172. 30. W. Greenwich. 
GORES', <An‘ Goer.ee, an ifland in the German 
Ocean, near f'fie mouth of the Meufe, about ten miles in 
circumference : two miles north of Schowen. Lat. 31. 
49. N. Ion. 20. 26. E. Ferro. 
GOREE',a feaporttownin the iflandof the famename, 
fituated near the eaft coaft, on a canal whicli communi¬ 
cates v/ith the Meufe, formerly a place of conliderable 
trade ; but the harbour is now choaked up with land ; 
fix miles weft of Helvoetfluys. 
GORES', a fmall ifland in the Atlantic, near the 
coaft of Africa, about two miles in circumference, with¬ 
in a cannon ftiot of thelliore. Notwitiiftanding its fitua- 
tion, the air is faid to be cool and temperate all tJie year 
round, and the inhabitants refrefhed by alternate breezes 
from the land and fea. Belides the multitude of fur¬ 
rounding rocks, tliat render it almoft inacceliible, ex¬ 
cept at two particlar bays, a late direitor, M. de St. 
Jean, has embellilhed the fort with feveral new build¬ 
ings, as well as fortified it by works, which render it a 
place of great ftrength. By the diligence of this gen¬ 
tleman, feveral fine Iprings, fo much wanted, have been 
difeovered in the ifland :'thc gardens have been planted 
with excellent fruit trees: all kinds of vegetables have 
been raifed in great abundance ; and from a fmall, bar¬ 
ren, and defpi»‘abic, ifland, he has made it one of the 
faleft, plealantell, and mod important, I'ettlements on 
the coaft of Africa. Goree was ceded to the Dutch, 
in 1617, by Biwam king of Cape Verd, and they imme¬ 
diately fecured it by a fort, built on' a rock to the north- 
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