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the fame^ clima^te, being tareful not to give tfiem 

 much water, efpecially in winter -, as alfo when they 

 are Ihifted, to preferve the earth about thei^ rsQots, 

 otherwife they are very fubjeft to perilhi for in the 

 country where they grow naturally, they fay it is not 

 poffible to -remove thefe trees ft as to live; if the 

 plants are properly managed, they will m^ke con- 

 fiderable progreis. I have ibme plants now in the 

 Chelfea garden^ more than twelve feet high, which 



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England^ fo it might fu rely be worthy of the care 

 of the planters in America, many of whom are pof- 

 fefledof barren rocky lands, which at prefent produce 

 no profit ; but if the feeds of this tree were fown 

 thercw might turn out p;reatly to the advantage of 

 their fuccefTofs, though the prefent pofleflbrs mould 

 not live to enjoy the profit \ but I fear there are few 

 of the gentlemen in tnofe iflands, who extend their 

 thoughts fo far, as to make provifion for the rifing 



Jlamina as long as the petals^ terminated by fmall fu 

 tnitSy and a fmall germen with a large receptaiUy marked 



wttUien deep cbannek-i fuppcrting a Ihort ftyle {^ro^^j^ncd 

 tmih an obtufe trifid Jligma. The germen afterword bc^ 

 comts an oval^ blunts three-cornerea capfule^ opamg in 

 three cellsy each containing an oval frnocth feed. 

 This genus of plants is ranged in the firfl fetSion 

 of Linnius*s fifth clafs, intitled Pentandria Mono- 

 gynia, from the flower having five ftamina and one 



The Species are, , ' . . 



i, CeLastrus {BullatKs) inermls, foliis ovatls integer- 

 rimis. Lin. Sp. Plant. .196 Smooth Staff-tree with oval 

 entire leaves, Euonymus Virginianus, rotundifoliiis 



, capfulis Coccirieis elegariter bullatis. Pluk. Aim. 

 139 





generation-. : .. ....,., ■ j^l. i .. . .yj 



The third fort was difcovered by the late Dr. Plouf- 



toun at Campeachy, from whence he fent the feeds 

 to England, which fucceeded in feveral gardens-, 

 when the doftor firft obferved thefe trees, they were 

 deftitute of leaves, but were loaded with ritpe fruit : 

 and on his fecond vifit to the place, he found the 

 trees in full verdure, but no appearance of , flowers, j 

 fo he was ^at a, lofs to kno^ what genus it beionged 

 to; but as the fruit of the trees agree exadly with 

 thofe of the two former ipecies, fo I have ventured to 



join it to them, j :; ' Vl;-i ;>>J .... .:- . . ., .. 

 Thele ttees ufually rife to the height of.cighty feet, 

 or upward, and divide into many large branches to- 

 ward the top; garniftied with leaves, fomewhat re- 

 fembling thofe of the Witch Hazel, but are broader 

 at their oafe, and cut angular at their top ; thefe are 

 of an Alh-colour underneath, and are fet on the 

 branches without any order •, the fruit of this tree is 

 much larger than that of the Barbadoes Cedar, being 



ihing 



2. Celastrus (Scandens) inermis, caule volubili foliis 



ferrulatis. Lin. Sp, Plant. 285. Smooth Staff-tree v:ith 



a twining Jlalk^ whofe leave's are flightly piwed, Euony-. 



moides Canadenfis icahdens foliis ferratis, Ifnatd. Ac, 



: Reg. 1 71 6. * _ 



3. Celastrus [Pyrdcanthus) ij>inis nudis, 

 biis, foliis acuhs. Hbrt. Cliff. 72. Staff^h 



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[, Lycium 

 ^thiopicum pyracanthse foliis. Hort. Amft* i. p. 



4, Celastrus (Buxifol 

 latis, foliis obtufis, Hort. Cliff. 73. Staff-tree with 

 leaves on the fpines^ angular branches -i and obtufe leaves, 

 Lycium Portoriceiife, Buxi foliis Mguftioribus. Pluk, 

 Aim. 234. tab. 202,, f. 3. , . , 



5, Celastrus \Myrtifolius) mermis, foliis ovatis fer- 

 rulatis, ffdnbus racemofis caiite erefto. Hort. ClifF. 



72. ^Staff-tree wi^^^^^^ ovdlfdwed leaves, fli 



in long lunches' and, an ere^ ftatk. Myrtifolia 



2. p. 79. tab', i'93. 



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The firft fort grows naturally in Virgima, ihd many 



other parts of Noith America, where i^ rif^s to the 



height of eight or ten feet i but in England there are 



top, where it terminates in a point, , being upwards j few of them much , more than half that height. It 



alfo . 



core, running lengthways through the fruit, to which 



the winged leeds adhere as in th? two former •, but as 



both their fruit are fmopth on th.e,9utfide, this differs I inches long, and ^two broad, which are placed alter- 



from them, in havin^ five angles running from the 



bafe upward ; at each angte the fruit, when ripe. 



generally puts out two or three ftems from the root^ 

 which divide upward into feveral branches, covered 

 with a brown bark, garnifhed with leaves near three 



nately on the branches ; the flowers cpme out in loofe 

 fpjkes at the end of the branches ; thefe are white. 



feparates, and expofes the winged feeds, which are I made up of five oval petals, with a germen in the 



diiperfed by the winds. 

 We have no account of the wood of this tree, whether 

 it is ever ufed in buildings, or other purpofes, as 

 there have been few perfons of any curiofity in that 

 country, the cutters of Logwood being the chief 

 people who inhabit there, from whom there can be 

 little known of the produce. The plants which have 

 been raifed from the feeds in England, have made 

 great progrefs for the two firft years, but afterward 

 were but flow of growth \ for, in fix years more, they 

 did net flioot fo much as in the firft year from the 

 feed, when they grew more than three feet high. T 

 made feveral trials to propagate the trees by cuttings 

 and layers, but without fuccefs ; fo that by feeds, 

 fecms to be the only method of having them ; thefe 

 may be raifed and managed in the fame manner as 

 the two foregoing forts, and with them conftantly 

 kept in the bark-ftove. 

 CEDAR of BERMUDAS. \^ j 



^See JuNiPERus. ^ 



JAMAICA 

 CEDAR of LIBANUS. 



center, attended by five ftamina: when the flowers 

 fail off, the germen fwells to a three-cornered cap- 

 fule, of a fcarlet cbloiir, fet full of fmall protuber- 

 ances J this opens in three cells, each containing a 

 hard oval feed, covered with a thin red pulp. This 



in England. 



July 



CEDAR of CAROLINA, 

 CEDAR 



See Theobroma. 



See Larix. 

 See Tu 



CEDAR of LYCIA. 



CEDAR of PHCENICI A. 



CEDAR of VIRGINIA. 

 C E I B A. See Bombax. 



CELASTRUS. Lin. Gen. Plant. 3^2. Euonymoi- 

 des. Ifnard. Ac. R. Sc, 1716. The Staff-tree. 



The Characters are, 



The flower hath a fr 

 five HHcqual Ihnt pi 



Ihefli 



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It is propagated here by layers, which will take root 

 in one year; the young branches only are proper for 

 this purpofe, fo tnat where there is not any of thefe 

 near the ground, the main ftallcs fhould be drawn 

 down, and faftened with pegs to prevent their rifing, 

 and the young fhoots from them fhould be laid. The 

 beft time for doing this is in autumn, when they be- 

 gin to call their leaves, and by that time twelve- 

 month they will be fufficiently rooted, when they 

 fhould be cut from the^pld plant, and planted in a 

 nurfery for two or three years to get ftrength •, after 

 which they muft be removed to the places wliere they 

 are to remain. ; This Ihrub grows naturally in moiit 

 places, fo will not thrive well in a dry foil. It is vcrj" 



hardy, and bears the cold of our wmters very well, 



Jt is alfo propagated by feeds, which are frequently 

 brought from America; but as thefe rarely arrive 

 here time enough to fow before the fpring, fo the 

 plants never come up the firft year; therefore the feeds 

 may be fown either in pots, or in a bed of loamy 

 earth, keeping them clean from weeds during the 

 fummer ; and^thofe in the pots fhould be placed in the 

 fliade till the, autumn, when the pots Ihould be either 



plunged into the ground in a warm fituation, or 



placed 



