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feparate (mall Pot, and plunged into 

 a frefti Hot-bed to bring them for- 

 ward i and in June they fliould be 

 inured by degrees to the open Air, 

 and afterward fome of them may be 

 ftiaken out of the Pots, and planted 

 in a warm Border; where, if the 

 Seafon is good, they will flower in 

 the Middle of July, and ripen their 

 Seeds the Beginning of September. 

 U CORIANDRUM, Coriander. 

 The Characters are ; 

 If bath a jibrofe annual Root : the 

 lower Leaves are broad, but the 

 I vfper Leaves are deeply cut into fine 

 I"* Segments: the Petals of the Flower 

 \ are urn qua I, and Jhaped like an Heart : 

 < the Fruit is composed of two hemifphe- 

 ! rical,and fome times fpherical, Seeds. 

 The Species are ; 



1. Coriandrum majus. C. B. 

 Greater Coriander. 



2. Coriandrum minus, teficula- 

 turn. C. B. Smaller tefticulated Co- 

 riander. 



3. Coriandrum fylvefre foe ti- 

 ll diffmurn. C. B. 



The firft of thefe Species is the 

 moll common Kind, which is cul- 

 tivated in the European Gardens and 

 Fields for the Seeds, which are us'd 

 in Medicine. The fecond Sort is 

 lefs common than the firft, and is 

 feldom found but in Botanic Gar- 

 dens in thefe Parts of Europe. The 

 third Sort, as mentioned in Co/par 

 Bauhins Pinax, and cited b}' the 

 learned Boerhaave, in his Catalogue 

 of the Leyden Garden, is fo like the 

 firft, that I could find no Difference 

 between them when compared toge- 

 ther, tho 1 I received the Seeds of 

 this Kind from the Leyden Garden. 



Thefe Plants are propagated by 

 fowing their Seeds early in the Spring, 

 in an open Situation, in a Bed of 

 good freih Earth; and when the 

 Plants are come up, they mould be 

 hoed out to about four Inches Di- 

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ftance every Way, clearing them from 

 Weeds ; by which Management thefe 

 Plants will grow ftrong, and produce 

 a greater Quantity of good Seeds. 

 The firft Sort was formerly culti- 

 vated in Gardens as a Sallad-herb. 



CORIARIA, Myrtle-leav'd Su- 

 mach, VulgO. 



The Characters are ; 



// is Male and Female in different 

 Plants : the Male Flowers have a 

 five-leaved Empalement : the Flenver 

 has fiv: Leaves, which are joined /a 

 the E./ipalement : thefe have ten 

 fender Stamina : the Female Flowers 

 have the like Empalement, and the 

 fame Number of Petals: and in the 

 Centre are placed five Pointals, which 

 turn to a Berry, inchfng five kidney" 

 fvaped Seeds. 



The Species are ; 



1 . Co r 1 a R 1 a vulgaris mas. Niffith 

 Aft. 1 7 1 1 . Male Myrtle-leav'd Su- 

 mach*. 



2. ^ORIARIA vulgaris fatmina. 

 Lin. Hor77*Clijf. Female Myrde- 

 leav d Sumach. 



The Sort with Male Flowers is the 

 moft common in Englrnd, the other 

 being very rarely feen in any of the 

 Gardens. Thefe grovV wild in great 

 Plenty about Montpelier in France, 

 where it is ufed for Tanning of Lea- 

 ther ; and, from this Ufe, has been 

 titled by theBotanifts, Rhus coriarh- 

 rum; i.e. Tanners Sumach. 



Thefe Shrubs feldom grow more 

 than three or four Feet high; and 

 as they creep at the Root, they fend 

 forth many Stems, whereby they 

 form a Thicket j fo may be planted 

 to fill up Vacancies in Wildernefs- 

 quarters; but they are improper for 

 fmall Gardens, where they will take 

 up too much room: and as there is 

 no great Beauty in the Flowers, they 

 are only admitted for Variety. 



It is ftrange that Monfieur AV /p/, 

 who lived upon the Place voere 



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