110 GUN 
GUN-FOUN'DER, f. He wliofe trade it is to caff 
cannon, mortars, howitzers, 8 pc. See tire article Foun¬ 
der y. 
GUN-HARPOON', f. See the article Harpoon. 
GUNAISKOG', a town of Sweden, in the province 
of Warmeland: thirty-four miles north-weft of Carl- 
ftadt. 
GU NARCHY,/! Gr.] A female govern¬ 
ment.— I have always Tome hopes of change under a 
gunarchy. Chejterfield. —This word does not feem rightly 
formed, it being ufual to change the Greek v iiito y. 
Mafon's Suppl. 
GUNDANIL'LA, a town of theifland of Porto Rico, 
on the Tonth coaft. 
GUNDELFIN'GEN, a lordftiip of Germany, in Swa¬ 
bia, which takes its n a me from a caftle lo called: 
twenty-one miles weft of Ulm. 
GUN DELFIN'GEN, a town of Germany, in the king¬ 
dom of Bavaria, and principality of Neuburg, fituated on 
the Brenz, near the Danube : thirty-eight miles weft of 
Neuburg, and nineteen north-eaft of Ulm. Lat. 48.34. N. 
Ion. 7.7. 58. E. Ferro. 
GUNDE'LIA, f. [fo named by Tournefort, in ho¬ 
nour of Dr. Andrew GundclJcbcimer, who found it in his 
travels, in company with Tournefort, in the Levant.] 
In botany, a genus of the el'afs fyngenefia, order poly- 
gamia fegregata, natural order of coinpofitae capitatas, 
(cinarocephalas, JuJf.) The generic characters are— 
•Calyx ; common fcarcely any, except the leaves fur¬ 
rounding the compound receptacle. Corolla: com¬ 
pound tubular, uniform ; coroll tiles hermaphrodite five, 
equal ; proper one-petalled, club-ftiaped ; border belly¬ 
ing, five-cleft, upright. Stamina: filaments five, capil¬ 
lary, very fliort ; anthcra: cylindric, tubular, long. 
Piftillnm: germ ovate, immerfed in the receptacle, 
crowned with very fhia.ll feales, inferior; ftyle filiform, 
longer than the corolla; ftigmas two, revolute. Peri- 
carpium: none; but the feeds are totally immerfed and 
hid in the receptacle. Seeds: folitary, roundifti, acu¬ 
minate, crowned with an obfeure rim; the fide ones are 
abortive. Recepfaciiltim : common conic, covered on 
every fide with partial receptacles, divided by three- 
cufped chaffs; partial obtufely conic, quadrangular, 
truncate, with five little pits, one of which is in the 
centre, the others in the circumference, for the infertion 
of the five flofcules. One central flower hermaphrodite, 
four marginal male.— Ejfential Chara&tr. Calyx fcarcely 
any, five-flowered; corolla tubular, male and herma¬ 
phrodite; receptaculum chaffy; down none. 
Gundelia Tournefortii, a folitary fpecies. It is a 
milky plant. Leaves alternate, prickly; floral leaves 
decurrent. Flowers terminating. Habit that of a thiftle. 
Root perennial, running deep into the ground. Stalks 
leldom more than a foot and a half high. The under 
leaves are long, narrow, and ferrate, the teeth ending in 
a fpine ; the other leaves are broader, irregularly flafhed 
•to the midrib, and armed at the points with fharp 
prickles. The ftalks divide at top into feveral branches, 
which are armed with leaves of the fame form, but nar¬ 
rower; eacii is terminated by a conical head of flowers, 
reflembling thofe of Dipfacus, furrounded at the bafe 
by a circle of long narrow prickly leaves. .Few of the 
feeds ripen perfectly; and if rain liappens when the 
plants are in flower, the germ peri flies, whicii is the cafe 
with feveral other plants whole flowers are collected in¬ 
to heads. It is a native of the Levant; flowers in Jujje, 
and the feeds ripen in Auguft. 
Propagation and Culture. This plant is propagated by 
feed, which fhould be fown the beginning of March, in 
a warm dry border of frelli but lean earth, in the place 
where the plants are defigned to remain. When the 
plants come up, they muff be carefully cleared from 
weeds; as they grow ,large, they ftiould be thinned, 
leaving the plants which are defigned to remain about 
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two feet afunder, that they may have room to fpread. 
After this there is no other culture required, but to 
keep them clear from we.eds; and if the fro ft fliould 
prove fevere in winter, the plants fhould be covered 
with ftraw or peafe-haulm to protect them ; but this 
covering irtuft be taken off in mild weather; in two years 
theyWill produce their flowers, when they will make a 
'fine appearance amongft other hardy plants in the plea- 
fnre-garden. They flower in May, and the plants lofe 
their ftalks and leaves in autumn, but their roots will 
abide many years. 
GUN'DELSHEIM, a town of Germany, in Swa¬ 
bia, fituated on the Neckar: thirty miles eaft of Hei¬ 
delberg. 
GUN'DERSDORF, a town of Germany, in the arch¬ 
duchy of Auftria : fix miles -north of Sonneberg, and 
twenty-fix north-north-weft of Vienna. 
GUND'LING (Nicholas-Jerom), a lawyer and hifta- 
rian, born in 1671, at a town near Nuremberg, where 
his father was a minifter. He ftudied at A.ltdorf under 
John Fabricius, and afterwards at Jena and Leipfic. In 
1698 he attended fome young men of rank at the univer- 
fity of Halle, where he changed his purfuits from theo¬ 
logy to law, in which he graduated in 1703. He fue- 
ceeded there to the profefforfhip of eloquence and natu¬ 
ral law, and was made counfellor to the confiftory of the- 
duchy of Magdeburg, and afterwards privy-counfellor. 
He was redtor of the univerftty of Halle at his death, in 
1729. His writings are, 1. New Dialogues. 2. Plan of 
a Courfe of Literary Hiftory. 3. Hijloria Philofophix Mo¬ 
ralise 4. Otia ; or, a Collection of Difcourfes on Pliyfi- 
eal, Moral, Political, and Hiftorical, Topics, 3 vols. 8vo. 
5. De Jure Oppignorati Territorii. 6. Status Ndturalis Hobbejii 
Defenjiis, &c. 7. De Statu Rcipub. Germanicee fub Conrado /. 
8. Comment atio de Henrico Aucupe. 9, Via ad Veritatem. 10. 
Gundlingiana . He had alfo a confiderable Iliare in the 
Objervationes Hallenfes. 
GUNDOROEbKAI'A, a town of Ruffia, in the coun¬ 
try of the Collacks, on the Donetz : 112 miles north of 
Azoph. 
GUN'DUCK, a river of Alia, which rifes in the coun¬ 
try of Napaul, and runs into the Ganges, oppofite Patna, 
in the country, of Bahar. 
GU'NI, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. _ 
'GU'NITE, a defeendant of Guni. 
GUN'NA, a fmall ifland of Scotland, near the weft 
coaft : one mile fouth from Col. 
GUN'NEL, f. corrupted from gunwale. See Gun¬ 
wale. 
GUN'NER, J. An officer appointed for the manage¬ 
ment of cannon, or one ikilled in the flcience of gunnery. 
GUNNE'RA, f. [fo named by Linnaeus, in honour of 
Joan. Ernejlus Gunnerus, bifhop of Drontheim in Norway, 
the fubject of-the next article.] In botany, a genus of the 
clafs gynandria, order diandria, natural order of urticas, 
JuJf. The generic characters are—Calyx : ament verti- 
cilled ; feales one-leafed, one-flowered, fetaceous, the 
length of the flower, permanent; perianthium none, ex¬ 
cept the cruff of the feed, which iias two teeth. Co¬ 
rolla; none. Stamina: filaments two, very fliort, op- f 
pofite, fitting on the lides of the germ on the outfide of 
the teeth ; antherte oblong. Piftilliim : germ ovate, 
with two teeth at the tip ; ftyles two, Ihort, fubulate, 
between the teeth of the germ ; ftigmas Ample. Peri- 
carpi um : none. Seed: Angle, ovate, the bark formed 
from the cruft of the perianthium.— Ejjeniial CharaEler. 
Ament with one-flowered Tcaies; calyx and corolla 
none; germ two-toothed ; ftyles two ; feed one. 
Gunnera perpenfa, or marlh-marygold-leaved gunnera, 
the only fpecies known. Leaves radical, cordate, obtufe, 
finooth, veined, repand, tooth-crenate, with the petioles 
fcarcely pubefeent. Scape two feet high. Ament ter¬ 
minating, long, compound j-the fubdivilions fcattered, 
fimple, diftind ; brades .lanceolate, Ihort. Flofcules 
naked. 
