Galipot

[Fr.] (Chem.) A white semi-solid substance. It is resinous, and found as an exudation upon the pine and fir trees, especially on the maritime fir, and is found, chiefly in winter, incrusting the wounds and abrasions of the tree. It consists almost entirely of a colorle crystallizable resin called pimelic acid. Galita. ( ga - lē'ta,) an island in the Mediterranean, lying off the N. coast of Tunis; Lat. 37° 31′ N., Lon. 8° 55′ Е. Galit'zin, BASIL, a Ru ian nobleman, who was B. 1633, and in 1680 became minister of the Czar Fédor Alexowitz, whom he persuaded to abolish the titles of nobility, and to let his subjects rise 36 to dignities by merit. He was in great favor with the regent, Prince Sophia, sister of the czars Peter I. and Ivan, and during her regency po e ed C supreme power. The intrigues of the regent, however, against her brother Peter being discovered, she was confined in a monastery, and Galitzin exiled. D. 1713. See GALLITZIN. Ga'lium, n. [Gr. gala , milk the flowers of one species being used for curdling milk.] ( Bot . ) The typical genus of the order Galiaceæ. The species G. aparine is the common Goose-gra or Cleavers. The inspi ated juice or extract of this plant has been used with succe in lepra and other cutaneous diseases. The extracts of G. rigidum and G. mol lugo have been employed in epilepsy. G. verum (Fig. 1103), the Yellow Bedstraw, rare in New Eng- Fig . 1103.-YELLOW BEDSTRAW. land, has a slender, erect ( Galium verum .) stem, 1-2 feet high, with a, top of stem, showing leaves and short, opposite, leafy, unflowers; b, c, 2 views of a flower. equal branches. The roots dye red. The flowers are used in England to curdle milk. Gal’ivant's Ferry, in South Carolina, a post-township of Horry co.