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flowers will appear by the beginning of February -, 

 and though there is no great beauty in the flowers, 

 yet, as they are generally produced in plenty, at a 

 leaion when few other flowers appear upon trees, a 

 few plants of them may be admitted for variety. 

 The fmit of this tree is fcldom ripe before Septem- 

 ber. The tree will grow eighteen or twenty feet 



high, and make a large head. 



The third fort is an American, from whence t!ie feeds 

 have been brought to England : this is found in all 

 northen; parts of America, as are alfo the fourth, 

 fifth, and fixth forts, being natives of the woods in 

 Virginia, New England, Maryland, and Carolina. 

 Thefe are all of them very hardy, and thrive well in 

 the open air in England, fo are cultivated by thenur- 

 fery-men near London, to add to the variety of their 

 hardy trees : thefe grow to the fame height with our 

 common female Dogberry, and make a much better 

 appearance. Thefhoots of the fifth fort are of a beau- 

 tiful red colour in winter; and in fummer the leaves 

 being large, of a whitifh colour on their under 

 fide, and the bunches of white flowers growing at the 

 extremity of every branch, renders this flirub valua- 

 ble V and in autumn, v/hen the large bunches of blue 

 berries are ripe, they make a fine appearance. 

 The third fort is now very common in the nurfcries, 

 where it is known by the name of Virginia Dogwood. 

 This fort is of much hun:ibler growth than either oi 

 the former, feldom rifing above feven or eight feet 

 high, but is generally well garnlfhcd with leaves, 

 which are larger than either of the other forts. This 

 does not flower fo plentifully as the other forts, nor 

 have I yet feen any of thefe fhrubs, which have pro- 

 duced berries in England, though they are^ as hardy 

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. There is a variety of this with a red involucrum or 

 cover to the flowers, which adds to th^_ beauty of the 



. plant ; this was found wild in Virginia by Mr. Ba- 



^.niller, and afterward by Mr. Catelby. .vThis and the 

 former fort are o-reat ornaments to the woods in A- 



...merica, firft by their early flowering in the fpring be- 



. fore the green leaves appear ; arid in the winter they 



V are alfo beautiful when the berries are ripe, which hane 



,. upon the flirubs till the fpring. '■ 

 ■ The eighth fort grows, upon Cheviot-hills in Nor- 

 thumberland, and alfo upon the Alps, and other 

 mountainous places in the northern countries, but is 

 very difliculc to preferve In gardens ; the only me- 

 thod is, to remove the plants from the places of their 



. natural growth, with good balls of earth to their 

 roots, and plant them in a moifl: fliady fituation, 



.- where they are not annoyed by the roots of other 



^plants. In fuch a fituation they may be preferved 

 two or three years, but ic rarely happens that they 

 will continue much longer. This is a low herbaceous 

 plant, whofe fl:alks decay in the autumn. 

 All the forts of Dogwood may be propagated by their 

 feeds, which, if fown in autumn foon after they are 



. ripe, will moft of them come up the following Ipring ; 

 but if the feeds are not fown in autumn, they will lie 

 a year In the ground before the plants will appear, 

 and when the year proves dry, they will fometimes 



^ remain two years in the ground > therefore the place 

 fliould not be difturbed, where thefe feeds are fown, 

 under two years, if the plants fliould not come up 

 fooner. When the plants are come up, they fliould 

 be duly watered in dry weather, and kept clean from 



^ weeds ^ and the autumn following they may be re- 

 moved, and planted in beds in the nurfery, where 

 theymay remain two years, by which tfme they will 



' be fit to tranfplant where they are to remain for good. 



. They are alfo propagated by fuckers, and^ layino- 

 down the branches. Moil of the forts produce plen- 

 ty of fuckers, efpecially when they are planted on a 

 moifl: light foil, which may be taken off^from the old 

 plants in autumn, and planted into a nurfery for a 

 year or two, and then may be tranfplanted into the 

 places where they are to remain; but thofe plants 



. v/hich are propagated by fuckers, rarely have fo g.ood 

 ;-'.ocs as thofe which are propagated by layers j and 



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being much more inclinable to fiioot out fuckc'rs, 

 whereby they will nil the ground round them with 

 tlicir fpawn, they are not near fo valuable a^ thoic 

 plants which are raifedfrom layers. 

 CORNUTIA. Plum. Nov. Gen. 17. Lin. Gen, 

 Plant. 684. Agnanthus. 'Vaill. Adt. R. 1722. We 

 have noEnglifn name for this plant. It is fo called 

 from Cornuius, a phyficran of Paris, who pubhfhed 

 a hifrory of Canada plants 

 The Characters are. 

 The Jlo'wer htith a fmall permanent empdkment of one 



leaf vj'hich is iuhuiar^ and indented in five parts at th 

 top, T'he fiower is of one petals having a cylindrical 

 tube^ ':i'hicb is much longer than the empdement^ and di- 

 vided into four parts at the top j the tipper ftgment is 

 round and ere^^ the tivofide ones fpread apart, and the 

 lower is round and entire. It hath four ftamina^ tvi'9 of 

 thefe are longer than the tube, the other are fhorier % they 

 are terrdnated by inclining fummits. In the center isfiiu- 

 atedthe roundiflo germen, fupporting a longftyk, divided 

 into two parts, crozvned by tzvo thick Jligmas. The gtr- 

 men afterward becomes a globular berry, fitting upon the 

 empalememt, inclcftngfcveral kidney-fijaped feeds. 

 This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond feftion 

 \ of Linnseus's fourteenth clafs, intitled Didynamia 

 ' Angiofpermia, the flowers having two long and 

 two ftiort ftamina, and the feeds are included in a 

 caplule. .: ' / 



There is but one Srcciis of this genus, viz. 

 CoRNUTiA {Pyramidata). Hort. Clift". 319. ■ Cornutia 

 flore pyramidato cteruleo, foliis iicanis, Nov. Gen. 

 -32. ' Cornutia ^with a blue pyraraidal flower dnd hoary 

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Tins plant y/as firft difcovered by father Plumier in 



I America, who gave it the name., It is found in plen- 



\ • tyin fevcral of the iflands inthe Weft-Indies, as alfo 

 at Campeachy and La Vera Cruz, from both which 

 places I received the feeds, "which were colleded by 



■ my late ingenious friend Dr. Williann Houftoun, and 

 afterward by Mr. Robert Millar, from thefame coun- 

 try. It grows to the height of ten or twelve feet ; 

 the branches are four-cornered, grow ftraggling, and 

 the leaves are placed oppofite. The flowers are pre- 

 duced in ipikes at the end of the branches, which are 

 of a fine blue colour ; thefe ufually appear in autumn, 

 and fometimes will remain in beauty for two months 

 or more. 



It is propagated by feeds, v^hich fliould be fown early 

 in the fpring on a hot-bed; and when the plants aie 

 come up, they fliould be tranfplanted each into a k- 

 parate halfpenny pot, filled v/ith light irefli earth, and 

 plunged into a hot-bed of tanners bark, obferving to 

 .fliade them until they have taken root; after whica 

 they fliould have frefli air let into the bed, in propor- 

 tion to the warmth of the feafon, and Ihould be ne- 

 quently watered (for it naturally grows on fwampy 

 foils.) When the plants have filled thefe pots with 

 their roots, they fliould be fliiftcd into others of a 

 larger fize, and plunged into a hot-bed again, v/here 

 they fliould be continued till Oftobcr, when they muft 

 be removed into the bark-ftove, and plunged into the 

 tan, for otherwife it will be very difficult to preferve 

 them through the winter. The ftove in which theje 

 plants are placed fliould be kept to the temperate heat 

 marked on Mr. Fowler's thermometers, which will 

 agree better with them than a hotter ftove. The third 

 year from feeds thefe plants will flower, when they 



, make a fine appearance in the ftove, but they never 

 perfeft their feeds in England. ^ ' 



They may alfo be propagated by cuttings, which, If 

 planted into pots filled with earth, and plunged into 

 a bark-bedj ^obfervino; to flbade and water them, will 

 take root, and muft be afterwards treated as the leed- 

 llng plants. 



CORONA IMPERIALIS. Sec Fritillaria. 



CORONA SOLIS. See Helianthus. 



C O R O N I L L A, Jointed-podded Colutea. 

 The Characters arc. 

 The flower hath a flsort permanent empalemcnt of one 

 leaf, which is compreffed, bifd, and ere^f. ■' // hath a 



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