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plants. It will grow in almost any soil and situation, but 

 thrives best in a warm sunny exposure, in which the flowers 

 appear in great quantities, and are also more beautiful. 



10. Coronilla Cretica ; Cretan Coronilla. Herbaceous : 

 legumes five together, erect, columnar, jointed ; leaflets even. 

 Stems ascending, angular, even, two or three feet long ; corol- 

 las blood-red ; the standard marked with purple veins ; the 

 wings conflex on the outside ; the keels dark purple at the 

 end. Native of Candia. Sow the seeds on a bed of light 

 earth in the spring, where the plants are intended to remain, 

 and take care to thin them when too close, and keep them 

 clean from weeds. 



11. Coronilla Scandens ; Climbing Coronilla. Stem climb- 

 ing, flaccid. This has a slender, hairy, twining stalk, of a 

 brown colour, twisting round any of the shrubs that stand 

 near it, whereby it rises eight or ten feet high ; for the most 

 part composed of five oval leaflets, one inch long, and half 

 an incli broad, of a deep green. Flowers pale yellow. Native 

 ~>i South America. The seeds should be sown early in the 

 spring, on a moderate hot bed ; and when the plants are 

 come up, they should be each transplanted into a halfpenny 

 pot filled with fresh rich earth, and plunged into a hot bed of 

 tanner's bark, observing to shade them until they have taken 

 root, after which time they should have air and water in pro- 

 portion to the warmth of the season ; and when they have 

 filled these pots with their roots, they should be shifted into 

 pots of a larger size, and plunged into the hot-bed again, where 

 they must remain until autumn, when they should be removed 

 into the stove, and plunged into the tan. These plants must 

 be kept constantly in the bark stove, and placed among such 

 as require a moderate heat, where they will thrive and flower. 

 They require to be supported by tall sticks, round which 

 they will twine as Hops do ; for if they have not this support, 

 they will twist round other plants, and spoil them. They 

 are very proper plants to place against an espalier, on the 

 back part of the stove, amongst other climbing plants, where 

 they will make an agreeable variety, and if carefully managed 

 in the winter, may be preserved two or three years, and will 

 flower annually in July, and sometimes produce ripe seeds 

 iu England. 



12. Coronilla Cochin-chinensis. Suffruticose : leaflets 

 about fifteen pairs ; peduncles subtriflorous ; legumes erect, 

 torulose ; stems fcrnr feet high, upright, branched ; leaflets 

 oblong, blunt, with a slender point ; flowers yellow, axillary. 

 Native of Cochin-china. 



1;5. Coroniila Hispanica ; Spanish Coronilla. Shrubby: 

 leaflets nine, emarginate; stipules large, roundish. Supposed 

 to be the same as the third species. 



14. Coronilla Orientalis. Herbaceous: legumes numerous, 

 radiate, thick, jointed ; leaflets glaucous underneath. Root 

 perennial ; stem annual, erect, upwards of two feet high ; 

 leaflets five or six pairs, oblong ; peduncles strong, upwards 

 of six inches in length, supporting large bunches of yellow 

 flowers, succeeded by short thick pods, about an inch long. 

 It flowers in June and July, and in warm seasons will ripen 

 its seeds in autumn. There is a variety with large white 

 flowers. Native of Cappadocia. It is propagated by seeds 

 sown on a warm border of light earth in the spring, carefully 

 weeding the plants when they appear, and transplanting them, 

 as soon as they are fit to remove, into a warm border, where 

 they are to remain, and will only require to be shaded from 

 the sun, and kept free from weeds. In autumn, when the 

 stalks are decayed, if the surface of the ground be covered 

 with some old tan to keep out the frost, it will be the surest 

 method of preserving the roots, which will continue some years 

 with proper care. The plants will flower in the second year. 



Corrigiola ; a genus of the class Pentandria, order Digynia. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix : perianth five-leaved ; leaf- 

 lets ovate, concave, spreading, size of the corolla, mem- 

 branaceous on the margin, permanent. Corolla : petals five, 

 ovate, spreading, scarcely larger than the calix. Stamina : 

 filamenta five, subulate, small ; antherm simple. Pistil : 

 germen ovate, three-cornered ; style none ; stigmns three, 

 obtuse. Pericarp: none. Calix : converging. Srerl .- single, 

 ovate, three-sided. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Calix: five- 

 leaved. Petals : five. Seed . one, three-sided. The species 

 are, 



1. Corrigiola Littoralis ; Bastard Knot Grass. Stems 

 many, slender, round, with a few branches at the end, two 

 or three inches long, covered with leaves ; flowers in glomerate 

 racemes, sessile, terminating ; calix of a whitish bay-colour, 

 converging ; corolla white. It flowers in Juno and July, and 

 is annual. Native of France, Germany, Denmark, Switzer- 

 land, and Piedmont, in sandy soils, generally on the banks 

 of rivers, or near the sea. It has been found on Slapham 

 sands near Dartmouth, and near the Start point. 



2. Corrigiola Capensis. Flowers sessile ; calices green. 

 Native of the Cape. 



Cortusa ; a genus of the class Pentandria, order Mono- 

 gynia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calir. : perianth five-cleft 

 spreading, very small, permanent : divisions lanceolate, three- 

 toothed. Corolla : one-petalled, wheel shaped ; tube scarcely 

 any ; border flat, five-parted, ample ; divisions ovate, acute ; 

 throat with an elevated ring. Stamina : filamenta five, 

 obtuse ; antherae two plaited, oblong, erect, affixed to the 

 outward part. Pistil .- germen ovate ; style filiform, longer 

 than the corolla ; stigma almost headed. Pericarp .- capsule 

 oval, acuminate, half five-valved. Seeds : numerous, com- 

 pressed, cornered. Receptacle : columnar, free. ESSENTIAL 

 CHARACTER. Corolla : wheel-shaped, the throat having an 

 elevated ring. Capsule : one-celled, oval, five-valved at the 

 end. These plants are difficult to keep in a garden : the 

 only method by which they have been preserved, was by 

 planting them in pots, and placing them in a shady situation, 

 where they were regularly watered in dry weather : cold will 

 not destroy them, but rich soils or dung is very injurious, and 

 they should therefore be planted in a very light soil. The 

 only method by which we can propagate them, as they never 

 produce any seeds in England, is by parting the roots in the 

 same manner as is practised for Auriculas ; the best time for 

 this is about Michaelmas, soon after which the leaves decay. 

 The species are, 



1. Cotusa Matthioli. Calices shorter than the corolla. 

 This plant sends out many oblong smooth leaves, a little 

 indented on the edges. The peduncles come out in the 

 centre of the leaves, rise about four inches high, and support 

 an umbel of flowers, each on a ( slender short pedicle. The 

 flowers are of a flesh colour, and spread open like those of 

 the Auricula ; they appear in April and May. Native of the 

 Alps, Austria, Silesia, and Siberia. 



2. Cortusa Gmelina. Calices longer than the corolla. Very 

 like the first, but the flowers much smaller, and the calices 

 larger. The umbel has about three flowers ; the corolla is 

 white ; and the leaflets of the involucre ovate. Native of 

 Siberia. 



Corylus : a genus of the class Moncecia, order Polyandna. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. Male Flowers, disposed in a long 

 ament. Calix : ament common, imbricated on every side, 

 cylindric, permanent ; scales one-flowered, narrower at 

 the base, wider at the top, and more obtuse, inflex, three- 

 cleft ; middle division equal in length to the others, but as 

 wide again, and covering the others. Corolla : none. Stamina: 



