GRATIOLA

a genus of scrophularia ceo us plants, is world-wide in distribution. The best-known species is G. officinal is, the common hedge hy op, which was formerly used in medicine. Trish orator and statesman; 6. Dublin; after studying law in London was called to Irish Bar; entered Irish Parliament, 1775; as leader of nation a! party, advocated removal of authority exercised by Brit. Parliament over Irish Parliament, his attitude leading to enrollment of 80,000 Irish volunteers, ostensibly for defense of Ireland; Britain was compelled to yield to Irish demands, and Ireland obtained Home Rule. In 1800 he opposed bill for Union of Great Britain and Treland, to which parliamentary corruption and Irish rebellion of 1798 had led; but he afterwards sat in the United Parliament, and until his death worked ince antly for Catholic emancipation.