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brown, with a high degree pf tranfpavency-, which ren- litary, fefiile, in the divifions of the panicle. Calyx 
ders it a very curious objedl for the tnicrofcope : its above, four-leaved ; leaflets unequal; exterior pair finall, 
length, when full-grown, is about three quarters of an oval, falling; interior pair large, wedge-fhaped, three- 
inch. When the time of-its changes arrives, it forms toothed, permanent, and increaling in fize with the pe- 
for itfelf a fmall oval cell or,cafe op-a leaf of ledge or ricarp into long membranaceous wings. Nedlary, four 
other convenient water-plant, and, after calling its Ikin, clubbed, yellow, glands. ' Filaments four, longer than 
becomes a chryfalis : this change ufually takes place in the calyx, inferted alternately with the nedlarial glands 
the month of Augufl, and the complete ihfedt emerges into a perforated receptacle. Anthers quadrangular, 
in that of September. opening on each fide w'ith an oval lid. Germ below. 
When thefe animals are congregated together in great egged. Stigma fmall, immerfed in the perforation of 
multitudes on the furface of the water, which frequently the receptacle of the filaments and nedlarial glands, 
happens in hot weather, they have been obferved to Capfule globular, wrinkled, one-celled, one-valved^ 
diflufe a firong or difagreeable fnvell to a,confid.erable does not open, fize ofa cherry, ends in two long, obtufe, 
difiance. Like other water-beetles, they fly only by lanced, membranaceous wings. See the Plate, fig. 2. 
night. They depofit their eggs, which are very fmall, It.grows- to be a very large tree, is chiefly a native of 
white, and of a fomewhat cylindric form, on the ftems the mountainous parts of the coafi of Coromandel ; calls 
of water-plants: they hatch in the fpace of about eight its leaves about the end of the wet feafon; flowers.du- 
days, and immediately begin to fwim about with much ring the cold feafon, when the tree is naked ; the leaves 
brifknefs in fearch of prey, The Gyrinus natator is come out foon after. The wood of this tree is white, 
lhown on the annexed Plate, fig. x. and very light; is employed to make catamarans (rafts) 
, 2. Gyrinus bicolor: black, beneath ferruginous; hind when to be had, in preference to any other., 
legs comprefled. I nhabits Sweden : larger than the lad. GYROM*ANCY, f. [frohr^ro, Lat. to turn round, 
3. Gyrinus auflralis: fubflriate, greenilh ; fliells ab- and (H*rvM,-Gr. magicj A kind of divination performed 
breviated, one-toothed. Shells truncate; four hind legs by walking round in a circle. 
ferruginous. Inhabits'New Holland,. G\ RO'N, GYRO'NE, GYRONEE 7 , f. in heraldry, 
4. Gyrinus Americanus: fmooth, black, opake; four an ordinary confiding of two lines drawn from feyeral 
hind legs diort, tedaceous.’ Inhabits America; larger parts of the efcutcheon, and meeting in an acute angle 
than the lad. . • 'in the fede point. 
5. Gyrinus '.mi cans.: fmooth, oliye, poliflied ; fhells GYROVA'GI, a fedt of wandering monks, who pre- 
with a glofiy band behind. Body olive, with a coppery tending great piety left their own cloiders, and vidted 
and filvery glofs, beneath black; hind legs tedaceous. others. Matt. Paris, 490. 
Inhabits Guinea ; the larged of.its tribe. GYROW', a river of Wales, which runs into the 
6. Gyrinus fpinofus: black, polilhed ; thorax and Dee five miles below Baia in Merionethdiire. 
fliells edged with yellow; fliells fpirious. Shells with GYSTIORN, a town of Germany, in Lunenburgh, 
two long Iharp fpiries; body beneath ferruginous; tail fituated on the river Aller, in lat. 52. 50. N. I011. 10. 
black. Inhabits Coromandel. , 45- E. 
7. Gyrinus ftriatus : green, polilhed; edges of the GYRT, a fea-port town of Sweden, in the province 
thorax and fliells pale ; fhells driate. Antennas green'; of Ead Gothland : thirtymilesfouth-fouth-eadoFNord- 
head brady green; front fometimies violet; fliells driate kioping. . 
with green and violet, rounded at the tip; legs pale. GYS'SENS, a town of the ifland of Borneo, on the 
Inhabits Barbary. ead coad. Lat. i.N. lon.117. E. Greenwich. 
8. Gyrinus groffus : beneath black ; above paler, very QYSSO'NE, a town of the ifland of Corfica; twenty- 
fmooth ; fhells rounded at the tip. Inhabits clear waters .nine miles foutli of Corte. 
at the Cape of Good Hope. GYTHE'UM, in ancient geography, a fea-port town 
9. Gyrinus formofus : beneath black ; bread, flernum, of Laconia, at the mouth of the Eurotas, in Pelopon- 
and legs, ferruginous; above brady green; tranfverfe nefus, built by Hercules and Apollo, who had there de- 
line 01°the-lip,, two fpots 011 the front,- tranfverfe inter- Tided from their quarrels. . The inhabitants were called 
rupted line on the thorax, and dreaks on the fhells, gold Gytheata. Cic. offic. 
red. Inhabits clear water at the Cape of Good Hope. G YTH'IUM, the name of the famed Spartan fea- 
10. Gyrinusorientalis: beneath pale ferruginous, above port of the ifland of Cerago, the ancient Cytheus. It 
brady black ; fhells each fide comprefled, flightly driate, was vidted by D. and N. Stephanopoli in the year 1798. 
bronzed, four-toothed behind. Body roundifli ; fliells One half of it is covered by the fea, but vilible under its 
as long as the body. waves, and the other is on dry land, They date its 
11. Gyrinus viola aquatica: beneath pale ferruginous, circumference to be about twelve miles. Its harbour 
above black, with a moufe-coloured down. Inhabits mud have been completely flieltered, and impregnable 
fait waters. both by fea and land. Among the curidfi.ties, is a fort 
GYROCAR'PUS,y. in botany, the Catamaran- of amphitheatre cut out ofa rock; a very remarkable 
Wood Tree, defcribed by Dr/Rudel. The generic defile, which could not, have been formed without in- 
charadtersare_Hermaphrodite: Calyx: above, four- credible labour. Several infcriptions and other curio¬ 
leaved, unequal. Corolla, none. Nedlary, four clubbed fifties are alfio mentioned as having been difcovered by 
olands. Stamens, four. Pidil, one. Style, none. Cap- thefe vifitors. A ilatue of Liberty, taken out of the 
fiule ' one-celled, one-feeded, ending in two long mem- ruins of the temple of Yidlory, in the pofledion of the 
branaceous wings. Male: Calyx, five-leirved, equal, ex-bey of Maina, they begged as a prefent for Bona- 
Nedtary and ftamens as in the hermaphrodite, without parte ; it was given to them, and is now in his cabinet.- 
pifiil- The goddefs holds a long pike in her right hand, and : 
1 Gyrocarpus Jacquini, a Angle fpecies. Trunk in ge- in her left a code mounted with a laurel crown. The 
neral eredt. Bark fmooth, greenifb adi-colour. Branches device is, Nih>j, 6 «voclo(. 
thin, irregularly fpreading in every diredlipn. Leaves GY'THOW, orjETHOW, a fmall ifland in the Eng- 
approximated about the extremities of the branchlets, lifh Channel; between the idand of Guernfey and the 
petioled, broad-hearted, three-neryed, frequently flight- Greater Sark. 
ly lobed, above fmooth, below downy; there are two To GYVE, v. a. To fetter; to fliackle ; enchain; to 
pitSvon the upper fide of the bafe; length and breadth' enfnare.—With as little a web as this, will I enfnare as 
various, but in general five or fix inches each way. great a fly as Caflio. Ay, fmile upon her, do. I will 
Flowers very lmall, yellow; hermaphrodite flowers lo- gyve thee in thine own courtfhip. Shakefpeare, 
