GALANTHUS—GENTIANA. ' 99 
leaves, pedunculate; flowers pedicelled; calyx acuminate villose; legume 
compressed, villose; flowers small, purple. Milk plant. Pine barrens. 
global”la , leafets shining above ; stem smooth. 
GALANTHUS. 6—1. (Narcissi.) [From gala , milk, anthos , flower, in allusion to its white¬ 
ness.] 
nival'is, (snow-drop, w. Ap. AO leaves linear, keeled, acute, radical; scape 
1-flowered. Ex. 
GALEGA. 16—10. ( Leguminosce .) [From gala, milk, because it increases the milk of ani¬ 
mals who eat it.] 
Virginia'vui , (goats’ rue, r-y. w. Ju. 'll-.) erect; leafets 8-12 pairs, oval-oblong, 
mucronate, white-villose beneath; raceme terminal; legumes falcate, vil¬ 
lose. 1 f. 
GALEOPSIS. 13—1. ( Labiatce ,) [From gale, a weasel, opsis, appearance.! 
laaa'num, .(red hemp-nettle, r-w. Ju. 0.) stem hairy, not swollen below the 
joints; leaves on short petioles, lanceolate, serrate, hairy; flowerswhorled; 
upper lip of the corolla slightly crenate. 1 f. Waste grounds.' Introduced. 
tetra'kit, stem hispid, swollen between the joints ; flowers rose-coloured, with 
a white tube, lower lip dotted with purple. 
GALIUM. 4—1. ( Rubiacece .) [From gala, milk, some species having the property of coagu¬ 
lating milk.] 
trifi'dum, (bed-straw, w. Ju. 74-.) s t e m procumbent, scabrous backwards; cau- 
line leaves in fives; branch leaves in fours, linear, obtuse, scabrous at the 
margin and on the nerves ; terminal, few-flowered ; pedicel short; corollas 
mostly 3-cleft. 
aspreV'lum, (rough bed-straw w. Ju. A) stem diffuse, very branching, prick¬ 
ly backwards; leaves in fives and sixes, lanceolate, acuminate; margins 
and nerves prickly; pedicels short. 18-24 i. 
tincto'rium , (dier’s cleavers, w. Ju.) stem diffuse, smoothish ; leaves linear;, 
cauline leaves in sixes, branch leaves in fours; peduncles terminal, elon¬ 
gated, mostly 3-flowered. Wet woods. Stem weak and branching. Leaves 
very narrow. Corolla mostly 4-cleft. Used as a red die. 
GAULTHERIA. 10—1. (Ericas.) [From Gaulthier, a physician and naturalist.] 
'procum'bens, (spicy wintergreen, w. J. 'll-- or h ) stem procumbent ; branches 
erect; leaves "obovate, acute at the base; flowers few, nodding. Berries 
red, consisting in part of the permanent calyx; a little mealy, pleasant 
tasted. 
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GAURA. 8—1. ( Onagrce .) 
bien”nis, (r-y. Au. J'.) stem having leaves purplish, sessile, lanceolate, tooth¬ 
ed; flowers in terminal spikes. Banks of streams. 
GELSEMINUM. 5—2. ( Bignonece .) 
sempemi'rens, (y. March AO stem twining, smooth, glabrous; leaves oppo¬ 
site, perennial, lanceolate, entire, dark green above,paler beneath; petioles 
short. S. Nearly allied to Bignonia. 
GENISTA. 16—10. ( Leguminosce .) [From genu, a knee, on account of its joints.] 
tincto'rea , (dier’s broom, y. Ju. h>0 root creeping, stem sub-erect, suffruticose; 
branches terete, striate, erect; leaves lanceolate, smooth; flowers in spiked 
racemes; legumes smooth. Hills. Introduced. Affords a yellow die. Ex. 
GENTIANA. 5—2. ( Gentiancc .) [From Gentius, king of Illyria.] 
quinqueflo'ra , stem square, branched ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, sub clasping, 
acute, 3-nerved, flowers somewhat in fives, axillary and terminal; corolla 
sub-campanulate, 5-cleft, segments lanceolate, mucronate, calyx very short. 
Woods. Aug. Flowers small, pale blue. 
ochroleu'ca, large flowers, yellowish white, striped inside with blue and purple. 
crini'ta, (fringed gentian, b. Sept. A ) stem terete; branches long, 1-flower¬ 
ed; leaves lanceolate, acute; corolla 4-cleft; divisions obovate, gash cili- 
ate. 18 i. 
sapona'ria, (b. Oct. AO leaves ovate, lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved ; flowers 
whorl-cay itate, sessile; corolla ventricose, closed, 10 cleft; interior segments 
unequally 3-cleft, as long as the exterior ones; segments of the calyx ovate* 
shorter than the tube. 18 i. Soap gentian. 
