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Culture. — The propagation of these plants is 

 easily effected, either by slipping or dividing the 

 roots in autumn, when the stalks decay, plant- 

 ing them out where they are to remain, keeping 

 them clean from weeds, and cutting down the 

 stalks annually in autumn, when they begin to 

 decay. The third and fourth sorts may be ren- 

 dered more forward by the use of a hot-bed. 

 They are all well calculated for the more large 

 borders and clumps, introducing them in the 

 vacant spaces between shrubs ; as they exhibit a 

 plentiful bloom till late in the autumn. 



COKI ANDP.I UW, a genus containing a plant 

 of the herbaceous culinary annual kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Pvntandria 

 Digijn'ia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 iinii'llutcc. 



The characters are : that the calyx is an uni- 

 versal umbel, with few rays : partial with very 

 many : involucre universal scarce one-leaved : 

 partial three-leaved, halved, linear : the perianth 

 proper tivc-toothed, standingout : the corolla uni- 

 versal difform, rayed : Hosciiles of the disk abor- 

 tive: proper of the disk hermaphrodite : petals 

 five, inflcx-emarginate, equal : proper of the ray, 

 hermaphrodite: petals five, inflex-hearted, un- 

 equal, of which the exterior is very large, two- 

 parted ; but the nearest lateral ones have a very 

 large division : the stamina have five simple fila- 

 ments: anthers roundish: the pistillum is an 

 inferior germ : styles two, distant : stigmas of 

 the ray headed : there is no pericarpium : fruit 

 spherical bipartite : the seeds two, hemispheric 

 and concave. 



The species cultivated is C. sativum, Com- 

 mon or Great Coriander. 



It has an annual small root ; the stem a 

 foot or a foot and half in height, smooth and 

 branched : the root-leaves larger, doubly pinnate : 

 pinnules broad, gashed on every side, serrate and 

 even half-two-lobed : upper leaves very finely 

 divided, also doubly pinnate : the pinnules linear, 

 slender, divided into two or three segments: pe- 

 tals white, or reddish. It flowers in June and 

 July ; and the seeds ripen in July and August. 



The leaves have a strong disagreeable scent ; 

 butfheseeds are grateful to the taste, and, when 

 lacrusteel with sugar, sold by the confectioners. 

 They, as well as the plant, are also sometimes 

 used for culinary purposes. 



Culture. — This is managed by sowing the seed 

 in the spring, or beginning of summer, in shallow 

 drills, half an inch deep, and six inches asunder, 

 keeping them afterwards free from weeds. As 

 the plants soon run up to seed, five or six sow- 

 ings should be made, from March till the latter 

 end of summer, the last on a warm border, or in 

 a bed to be defended with a frame, &c, in order 



to provide young green leaves more conveniently", 

 as they maybe wanted in winter. 



When cultivated for seed, it should be sown 

 early in March, either in drills a foot apart, or 

 broad-cast, and raked in: when the plants are 

 an inch or two in height, they should be hoed 

 to six or eight inches distance. They produce ripe 

 seed about August ; when the seed-stems should 

 be carefully pulled or cut in proper time : as the 

 seeds are but slightly attached, if particular care 

 is not taken in gathering soon enough, and cut- 

 ting the stalks, a great part sheds and is lost. 

 When cut, they should be put into a cloth, and 

 thrashed out as soon as possible. The young 

 leaves are used as culinary herbs, and the seeds 

 for different purposes. 



It is a proper plant for shrubbery borders, 

 and clumps, to increase the variety, where its 

 creeping roots send up many small suckers for 

 future increase. 



CORIARIA, a genus comprising a plant of 

 the deciduous flowering hardy shrubby kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Dioecia 

 Decandrla. 



The characters are : that in the male the calyx 

 is a five-leaved perianth, very short : leaflets 

 subovate, concave : the corolla has five petals, 

 very like the calyx, connected : the stamina con- 

 sist of ten filaments, length of the corolla : an- 

 thers oblong, two-parted : in the female, the calyx 

 is a five-leaved perianth very short; leaflets sub- 

 ovate, concave : the corolla has five petals, cus- 

 pidate, calyciform, converging: the stamina con- 

 sist of ten filaments (live within the calyx ; five 

 within the petals) very short : anthers barren : 

 the pistillum has five germs, compressed, inward- 

 ly conjoined : styles as many, bristle-form, long : 

 stigmas simple : there is no pericarpium : live 

 fleshy, ovate-lanceolate, three-sided petals, with 

 one of the angles looking inwards, covering the 

 seeds : the seeds five, kidney-form. 



The species mostly cultivated is C. myrti- 

 folia, Tanner's or Myrtle-leaved Sumach. 



It is a shrub which seldom grows more than 

 three or four feet high. It creeps at the root, 

 and sends forth many'stems. In the male plant, 

 the flower-buds are often in pairs from the scar 

 of the fallen leaves. Male aments, cylindric, op- 

 posite, in pairs (one from each bud), leafless : pairs 

 from one to five, below the polygamous aments: 

 the flowers are separated by flesh v, concave scales : 

 the hermaphrodite buds also solitary or in pairs, 

 above the former, in several pairs ; some males 

 being mixed with the hermaphrodites. The other 

 buds, occupying the ends of the branches, have 

 male flowers only, in leafless aments. 



In the female plant, very many flower-buds 

 are placed along the branches, opposite by pairs: 

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