GALBULUS

In Botany, a term invented by Gaertner, to denote a form of fruit similar to a cone, excepting that the galbulus is round, and has the heads of the carpels much enlarged. Example — the fruit of the juniper. GALEA, In Antiquity, was the headpiece or helmet used in battle by the Roman soldiers. Jam gale am Pallas et tepcla Currusque et rabiem pajrat. The galea was used for the same defensive purposes as the ca is J but differed from it in this, that while the ca is was ofjnetal, the galea was originally of hides. It was too heavy for general use; hence each army was attended by galearii, a species of military domestics, whose duty it was to carry the galeae of tha, soldiers. GALENA. {Gr. yxXiu, I shine.) Native sulphuret of lead. [s. 495]