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OR, BOTANICAL DICTIONARY. 



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.Seeds: four. These plants are all hardy, and may be pro- 

 pagated by seeds which they sometimes produce here. 



The species are, 



1. Cunila Mariana; Mint-leaved Cunila. Leaves ovate, 

 serrate ; corymbs terminating, dichotomous. There are two 

 varieties of this species j one has narrower leaves and larger 

 heads, and the leaves have very little scent ; whereas those 

 of the common sort smell so like Pennyroyal as scarcely to be 

 distinguished from it. It is perennial, flowering from July 

 to September ; and a native of North America. This may 

 be increased by planting cuttings in the spring in the same 

 manner as is practised for Mint ; they will take root freely, 

 and flourish exceedingly, if planted in a moist soil. 



2. Cunila Pulegioides ; Pennyroyal-leaved Cunila. Leaves 

 oblong, two-toothed ; flowers in whorls. Annual ; a span 

 high, and brachiate ; whorls of flowers the whole length of 

 the plant; corolla white, with a violet-coloured throat ; the 

 upper lip scarcely emarginate. It has a strong scent, and an 

 infusion of it is used in North America, by persons who have 

 taken cold, or have pains in their limbs. Native of dry 

 places in North America. It flowers with us in August. 



3. Cunila Thymoides ; Thyme-leaved Cunila. Leaves 

 oval, very entire ; flowers in whorls ; stem four-cornered, 

 erect, a span in height, with a few simple short branches. 

 Whorls of flowers the whole length of the stem. Annual : 

 and a native of the country about Montpellier. 



1. Cunila Capitata. Leaves ovate ; flowers terminating ; 

 umbel roundish ; stem a palm in height ; leaves somewhat 

 oblong, naked ; calices smooth and even, streaked ; corollas 

 purple; anthera? black. Native of Siberia. 



Cuniringhamia ; a genus of the class Tetrandria, order 

 Monogynia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix : perianth one- 

 leafed, four-toothed, very small, permanent. Corolla .- one- 

 petalled ; tube short ; border four-cleft, acute ; nectary a 

 rim surrounding the base of the style. Stamina : filamenta 

 four, the same length with the border of the corolla, inserted 

 in the throat ; antherae roundish. Pistil -. germen roundish, 

 inferior ; style filiform, bifid ; stigmas obtuse. Pericarp .- 

 berry ovate, crowned, one-celled. Seed : single, ovate, two- 

 celled, with oblong kernels. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. 

 Calix : very small four-toothed. Corolla : four-cleft, with a 

 short tube. Berry : crowned with a two-celled two-seeded 

 nut. The species are, 



1. Cunninghamia Sarmentosa. A sort of ramping shrub, 

 with the stem about six feet high, and four or five inches in 

 diameter. The bark is reddish, wrinkled, and cloven ; the 

 wood whitish. As the shrub grows, it pushes out towards 

 right and leftlong twiggy branches, which apply themselves 

 to the trunks of large trees, and insensibly climb to their 

 tops, where they also spread, but in the same kind of long 

 twin-gy branches, many of which hang pendent to within six 



i<rht feet of the ground. The leaves are six inches long, 

 four broad, two on each knot, opposite. The flowers, 

 which are small, grow in spikes, proceeding from the bosoms 

 of the leaves towards the extremities of the twigs ; their co- 

 lour is bluish ; the calix reddish. This shrub is found on 

 trees which grow near the Crique de Galibis. 



2. Cunninghamia Bifurcata. Leaves egg-shaped, acute at 

 both ends, nearly smooth ; peduncles forked at their upper 

 part ; flowers unilateral. 



3. Cunninghamia Nitida. Leaves egg-shaped, quite 

 imooth, shining ; peduncles dichotomous. This, and the 

 foregoing, natives of the Caribbee islands. 



4. Cunninghamia Verticillata. Leaves inversely egg-shap- 

 ed, acuminate, whorled, generally in threes ; peduncles 

 axillary, forked. Native of the isle of France and Bourbon. 



Cunonia ; a genus of the class Decandria, order Digynia. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix : perianth five-leaved, 

 very small ; leaflets ovate, concave, acute. Corolla: petals 

 five, obovate, spreading, sessile. Staminn : filamenta ten, 

 subulate, the length of the corolla ; anthera roundish, twin. 

 Pistil t germen conic ; styles two, subulate, longer than the 

 corolla ; stigmas obtuse. Pericarp : capsule oblong, acu- 

 minate, two-celled. Seeds : very many, roundish. ESSEN- 

 TIAL CHARACTER. Corolla : five-petalled. CaKv : five- 

 leaved. Capsule: two celled, acuminate, many-seeded. Styles: 

 longer than the flower. The only known species is, 



1. Cunonia Capensis. A shrub : leaves opposite, pinnate, 

 with an odd leaflet, sessile, and not larger than the rest ; 

 leaflets often seven, lanceolate, smooth, serrate ; racemes 

 terminating, in pairs, simple, with many one-flowered scat- 

 tered pedicels springing from one point. Native of the Cape 

 of Good Hope. 



Cupania j a genus of the class Octandria, order Monogy- 

 nia. GEXKRIC CHARACTER. Calix : perianth five-leaved, 

 inferior ; leaflets oblong, erect. Corolla : petals five, cowled 

 at top, upright. Stamina : filamenta eight, capillary, longer 

 than the calix, erect ; antherae incumbent. Pistil : germen 

 ovate ; style short, trifid ; stigmas blunt. Pericarp : capsule 

 coriaceous, turbinate-ovate.three-lobed, three-celled, three- 

 valved. Seed: solitary, roundish, with a bell-shaped crenate 

 aril embracing the seed like a calix. Observe, many of the 

 flowers are abortive. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Calix : 

 five-leaved. Petals : five, cowled at the top. Style : trifid. 



Capsule : three-celled. Seeds : solitary, arilled. The 



species are, 



1. Cupania Tomentosa. Leaves pinnate, obovate, retuse, 

 ferruginous-tomentose underneath. Jacquin describes this 



j tree as twelve feet high, the younger branches and ribs of 

 the leaves slightly tomentose ; leaves alternate, half a foot 

 long ; leaflets usually three pairs, alternate ; flowers small, 

 numerous, with yellowish petals, in the shape of an isosceles 

 triangle inverted, whence the name trigonis. Native of the 

 woods of Hispaniola. 



2. Cupania Glabra. Leaves pinnate, ovate, obtuse cre- 

 nate, smooth. It rises to the height of twelve or fourteen 

 feet. The leaves are large, and the wood soft and useless. 

 This shrubby tree is common in the lower hills of Jamaica, 

 where it is called loblolly -tree. 



3. Cupania Saponarioides. Leaves pinnate, oblong, entire, 

 rugged underneath. Native of the West Indies. 



Cupressus : a genus of the class Moncccia, order Mon- 

 adelphia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Male Flowers, about 

 twenty, disposed in an egg-shaped catkin. Calix : scale 

 roundish, acuminate, concave, pedicelled, peltate. Corolla : 

 none. Stamina : filamenta none ; anthera two or four, oval- 

 roundish, one-celled, adnate to the base of the innersideof 

 the scale. Female Flowers, from eight to ten, clustered into 

 a small short cone. Calix : scale egg-shaped, thickish, 

 spreading. Corolla: none. Pistil; scarcely discernible ; but 

 at the base of each scale there are several points which ap- 

 pear to be germina, with simple or double sessile stigmas. 

 Pericarp : a strobile ; scales thickened, at first shut, after- 

 wardsexpanding, orbicular, angular, generally peltate, con- 

 vex and almost pointed on the outside, a little concave within, 

 appearing like the heads of nails. Seeds : several, small, ob- 

 long, angular. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Males. Catkin : im- 

 bricated. Calix: ascale. Corolla : none. Antliera: twoorfour, 

 sessile, without filaments. Females. Catkin strobilaceous. 

 Calix : a scale. Corolla : none. Stigma : one or two con- 

 cave points. Nut : angular. These trees are all propa- 

 gated by seeds, sown early in the spring, on a bed of warm dry 



