a@NO 
Scultetus orders that the compreffes, to make them ftick, 
be drenched with ce ee to footh the pain, and reve 
an inflammation; and the bandage to be every moif- 
tened with the fame, “il the inflammation be ae of all 
anger. 
CENISTERIA, in Antiquity, facrifices held by the 
youth of Athens, before the firlt time of cutting the hair, 
wine. 
Thefe facrifices were offered to Hercules 3 and the quan- 
tity of what was offered was regulated by law 
CNOGALA, i word ufed by Hippocrates, and other 
of the Greek auth to exprefs a mixture of milk and 
ine for cameda drinking. Others have ie it to ex- 
prefs wine alone heated, fo as to be juft as warm as new 
milk. 
CENOMANTIA, O1YOfAOLIT EL in Antiquity, a {pecies of 
divination by wine, which is done by making conjectures 
from the — motion, noife, and other accidents of the 
wine of libation 
MAUS, in Biography, a Cieily elilfed’ with the who 
afcri 
piislopty of Hower, as ell as the biographies of Crates, 
Diogenes, and other Cynic philofophers. None of his 
pieces have reached our times; but fragments of his work 
againft oracles are preferved in the fifth and fixth books 
of ees 8 6 Evangelical Preparation.”” Moreri. Brucker 
by Enfie 
C} oer. a kind of officers, or cenfors, at Athens, 
who attended at their feafts, regulated the number of cups 
each was to drink, and took care that none drank too much 
or too little. 
Thofe who would not be kept within the bounds of tem- 
he cenopte to the areopagus. 
CGNOTHERA, in Botany, from owoz, wine, and bec, 
a fearching or cate a name, as we learn from Theo- 
phraftus, beftowed upon the plant on account of its root 
having ca aught che perfume of wine from being dried; but 
whether our Cinothera be the fame as that of ‘T heophraftus 
we are at a lofs to determine. 
Michaux. Boreal- 
Lamarck Did. v. 4. 550. 
mee t. 279. (Onagra; Tournef. t. 156. Gertn. 
2.)—Clafs and order, pagel Monogynia. Nat. Ord. 
Ciicdtne, Linn, » Ju 
Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth faperior, of one leaf, deciduous ; 
tube cylindrical, ereGt, long; limb cloven into four, ob- 
long, acute, deflexe . Cor. Petals four, Sheer: 
date, flat, asi at the divifions of the calyx, and as wa 
as its fegme ilaments eight, awl-fhaped, i 
curved, Thlertd into the throat . Baxi - fhorter than 
the co anthers oblong, incumben 
inferior, “cylindrical ftyle thread- taped ie length of the 
ftamen obtufe, reflexed. Peric. 
Ils, and four valves ; 
G@NO 
Recept. columnar, ea {quare, its angles meeting 
the edges of the par 
Calyx on od Petals four. Capfule of 
ed oo and four valves, cylindrical, inferior. Seeds 
na. 
This is an ornamental genus of herbaceous plants, chiefly 
American. In the 14th edition of Sy/fema Vegetabilium are 
enumerated ten fpecies. Willdenow has fifteen, all of which 
may be found in the fecond edition of the Hortus Kewenfis. 
We fhall firft give a few examples of thefe {pecies. 
O. diennis. Common Evening Primrofe. Linn. eae P 
ot. t. 534 Fl. on t. —Leav 
seller eat flat. Stem 
W na- 
2 OQ 
5 
ct 
a) 
ws 
. t. — 
acuie. Capfules ftalked, oblong-club-fhape 
Native of Virginia ; flowerin 
erennia!. 
r, which con- 
ie to eades rele ore of the cel omameud and 
defrable of the trib 
umila. Dee 
Cénothera 
O. Linn. Sp. Pl. 493. 
urt. Ma aves | te, entire, obtufe. 
Capfules on fhort ftalks, eel obovate, angular. 
Native of North Ameri ) ay to Sep- 
tember. Root perennial Sie afcending, alent a foot 
in height, fmooth, reddifh. Leaves feffile, light ai 
tinged with red at their points, rather biunt. 
feffile, {piked, {mall, yellow, and like the laft eee remain 
expanded in the day as well as in the evening. sb 
far {maller than any other Linnzan fpecies of Gage. 
O. rofea. Rofy-flowered CEnothera. Willd. n. 14. 
Curt. Mag. t. 347.—Leaves ovate, toothed; lower ones 
lyrate. Capfules club-fhaped.—Native of Peru, and intro- 
duced into Europe in 1783 
greater part of the fummer. Root fcarcely perenmial. Stem 
about a foot in height, upright, {mooth. Leaves nearly 
feffit, pointed and tipped ie = Flowers an, on 
long flalks, of a bright mole co 
. purpurea. 
It flowers throughout the 
. Menzies, efq. i 94. very orna- 
ental fpecies, and chief aikinguithed by the foft and 
glaucous appearance of its foliage, the purple hue of its 
bloffoms, 
