ing them into their holes. 'The mifchief is chiefly 

 doiie in the night : whenever you obferve this, you 

 fhQuld every morning look over your plat of plants ; 

 and wherever you lee any plants eaten off, ftir the 

 ground round about t!ie place withyour fingers an inch 

 deep, and you Vv'ill certainly find them out. This is 

 the only mcdiod I know of deftroying them. 

 CATKINS, or lULUS. 



This IS, by the bocanifts, called Flos' Amentaceus : 

 it is an aggregate of fummits, which are joined toge- 

 ther In form of a rope or cat's tail, and is the male 

 flower cf the trees which produce them; as the 

 Fir;, Pines, Cedars, Walnuts, Birch-trees, and 

 Willows. 



C A T E S B iE A. Lin. Gen. Plant. 121. Hift. Carolin. 



t - ' 



,r«e>f ft a 



/ 



Vol. II. p. 100. The Lily Thorn. 

 The Characters are, 



II hilt h a fmnll permanent empalement of one leaf ivith 

 jl-vc Jhr.rp indentures-^ the fio'vjer is of one leaf funnel- 

 fljciptcU having a very long tuky which gradually widens 

 to [ke top^ where it is four-cornerned andfpread open \ it 

 hath four fiamina riftng in the neck of the tube ^ terminated 

 by' olkn'r ere^t fummits ', the romdijh germen is fituatcd 



flower^ fupporting a jtcnder Jlyle^ crotvned by a 



ftngle ftigma, 

 berry 



' w 



ift 



angular^ feeds, 



This genus of plants is ranged in the firft feclion of 

 Linnceus's fourth clafs, intitled Tetrandria Monogy- 



- nla^ the flower having four (lamina and one ftyle./ 



We have but one Species of this plant, viz. ' ' 



CATESBiiiA. Lin. Sp. Plant. 109. The Lily Thorn. 



. Frutcx fpinofus Buxi foliis, plurimis fimul nafcenti- 



bus, flore tetrapetaloide, pendulo, fordide fiavo, tu- 



. bo longifllmo, fruau ovali croceo, femma parva con- 



"tinente. Catefb. Hift. Carol. Vol. II. p. 100. 



This Ihrub was difcovered by Mr. Caten:)y, nearNaf- 



fau town, in the ifland of Providence, where he faw 



two of them growing, which were all he ever faw ; 



from thefe he gathered the feeds, and brought them 



to Ene;land in 1726, from which many plants were 



, railed in the Englifh gardens, feme of which have 



fmce flowered here. - .•. - 



. It rifcs with a branching ftem to the height of tenor 



. twelve feet, which is covered with a pale ruffct bark ; 



; the branches come out alternately from the bottom to 



. the top, which are garnifhed with fmall leaves, re- 



fcmbling thofe of the Box-tree, coming out in cluf- 



tcrs all round the branches, at certain diftances ; the 



flowers come out finglefrom the fide of the branches, 



hanging downward ; they are tubulous, and near fix 



inches long, very narrow at their bafe, but widening 



. upward toward the top, where it is divided into four 



- parts which fpread open, and are reflexed backward ; 

 . thefe are of a dull yellow colour. After the flower 



decays, the germen fwells to an oval flefliy berry the 

 . fize of a middling Plumb, hollow within, and filled 

 with fmall angular feeds. • .• , . 

 This fl:rub is propagated by feeds, which muft be 

 procured from the country where it naturally grows. 

 If the entire ftult are brought oyer in fand, the feeds 

 will be better preferved : when they arrive in England, 

 .the feeds mufl:be fown in fmall pots filled with light 

 fmdy earth, and plunged into a moderate hot-bed of 

 tanners bark, and now and then moderately w^atered. 

 If the feeds are good, the plants will appear In about 

 fix weeks after fowing •, when, if the heat of the bed 

 declines, the tan fliould be turned over to the bottom, 

 and, if neceflary, fome frefh added to renew the 

 heat, for thefe plants make but little progrefs the 

 firft year. When the pots are again plunged into tlie 

 tan-bed, they muft have frelh air admitted to them 

 every day in proportion to the warmth of the feafon, 

 and frequently refreflicd with water, in fmall quan- 

 tities, for much wet will certainly kill them ; if the 

 nights fiiould prove colH, the glafltrs fliould be co- 

 vered with mats every evening. As thefe plants 

 grow flowly, they will not require to be removed out 

 of tlie feed-pots the firft year. In the autumn the 

 .pots fl::ould be removed into the ftove, and plunged 



jiKO the tan-bed. During the winter, the plants fliould 



E 



be watered with great caution, and in fpring tliey 

 fliould h^ carefully taken up, and each planted 

 in a feparate fmall pot filled with light fandy earth, 

 and plunged into a frefli hot-bed of tanners bark, be- 

 ing careful to ftiade them until they have taken frcfh 

 root, as alfo to refrefli them with water gently, as 

 they may require it ; and in fummer, w^hen the wea- 

 ther is warm, they flaould have a good fliare of air ad- 

 mitted to them-, but in autumn muft be removed 

 into the ftove, where they ftiould conftantly remain, 

 and muft be treated afterward in the fame manner as 

 other tender exotic plants. 



This plant miay be propagated by planting cuttings 

 in fmall pots filled with light earth, during the months 

 of June and July. The pots flnould be plunged intvi 

 a moderate hot-bed of tanners bark, anti the cuttinp^s 

 clofely covered with fmall bell-glaifes to exclude the 

 external air. If this is properly performed, the cut- 

 tings will put out roots in about tv/o or three months, 

 when they may be carefully feparated, planting each 

 intoa fmall pot filled with light earth, and plunged into 

 the hot-bed again, and afterward muft be treated as 

 the feedling plants. • ;.: 



Moft of thofe plants which were raifed from Mr. 

 Catefl3y's feeds, were killed by the feyere winter in 

 1 739 '5 but feven years ago I received fome frefli feeds, 

 which fucceeded fo well, as to enable me to commu- 

 nicate plants to feveral curious p'erfons in England 

 and PloUand. "^ ■ ■» 



C A C A U L I S, Baftard Parfley. 



This is one of the umbelliferous plants with oblong 





'\r 



the 



agam. 



feeds, which are a little furrowecf and prickly : 

 petals of the flower are unequal and heart-fliaped. 

 There are* feveral fpecies of this plant preferved in 

 the botanic gardens ; but as there is no great beauty 

 or ufe in any cf them, I fliall pais them over with 

 only obferving, that if any perfon hath a mind to cul- 

 tiv^ate them, thebeft feafon to fow their feeds is in 

 autumn, foon after they are ripe \ for if the feeds are 

 kept till fpring, the plants feldom produce ripe feeds 



They are moft of them biennial, and require 

 to be fown every year. We have four or five fpecies 

 of them, which grow wild in England, ■•iil^ 



CAULI FERGUS plants [of Caulis \Lat. a ftalk, 

 and/fr(7, to bear ;] fuch plants as have a true ftalk. 



CAULIS, is that part of a plant v/hich rifes fingle 

 above the earth, from whence the leaves or little 

 branches put forth, as Jungius defines" it; or it is the 

 upper part of a plant ftretched forth to an height, fo 

 that the fore parts differ not from the hind, nor the 

 right from the left. In trees and flirubs it is called 

 Caudix i in corn Culmus ; the ftalk of any herb \ the 

 ftem, trunk, or body of a tree. Lat. : . 



CEANOTHUS. Lin. Gen. Plant. 237. Euonymus. 

 Com. Hort. New Jerfey Thea. 

 - The Characters are, - 



I. 



2. 



6 



It hath a turbinated e^npakment of one lerf which is 

 permanent^ cut into five acute fegments which clofe toge- 

 ther ;■ the fewer hath five roundijh equal petals which 

 fpread open^ and are Jefs than the empakment \ it bath 

 five efe5l fiamina^ placed oppofite to the petals^ and are 

 of equal lengthy terminated by roundiflo fummits^ and a 

 three-cornered germen^ fuppcrting a cylindrical ftyle^ crown- 

 ed by an cbttife ftigma, T^he germen afterward becomes a 

 dry capfule with three cells^ i7i which are lodged three 

 oval feeds, ■ ■ 



This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fection oi 

 LinnjEus's fifth clafs, intitled Peritandria Monogynia, 

 the flower having five ftamina and one ftyle. 



The Species are, '" . 

 Ceanothus {Amcricant's) foliis trinerviis. Lin. Sp. 

 Plant, 155. Ceanothus with leaves having three nerves, 

 Euonymus Nervi Belgii corni foemina: foliis. Hort. 

 Amft. I. 167. New England Dogwood 

 nel leaves^ commonly called New Jerfey Thea, 

 Ceanothus {Jfricanus) foliis lanceolatis enerviis, 

 ftipulis fubrotundis. Lin. Sp. Plant, 196. Ceanothi(S 

 with fp ear -fj aped leaves without nerves y and rcundifdfii- 



pnU, Alaternoides Africanalauri ferrate folio. Coin. 



Prxl. 61. tab. II. 



:?. Ceakothvs 



with female Cor- 



