The firft Sort is very common in 

 the Nurferies about London, where it 

 is propagated to intermix with other 

 flowering Shrubs : it ufually grows 

 to the Height of eight or ten Feet ; 

 the Branches grow very irregular and 

 diffus'd ; but when it flowers, which 

 it feldom does until it is pretty 

 ftrong, it makes a beautiful Figure, 

 the Flowers growing, as it were, on 

 large Plumes of Hair, which almoft 

 cover the whole Shrub : it is very 

 proper to plant among other Shrubs 

 of the fame Growth, where it will 

 make an agreeable Variety. 



This Plant is propagated by lay- 

 ing down the tender Branches,which 

 fhould have a little Slit made at one 

 of the Joints that are laid in the 

 Earth, as is praclifed in laying Car- 

 nations, which will greatly facilitate 

 their Rooting. When thty are fuf- 

 ficicntly rooted, which is commonly 

 in one Year's time, they may be 

 tranfplanted where they are to re- 

 main ; for it feems not to bear re- 

 moving well, efpeciaily when grown 

 old j the Roots trailing far under- 

 ground, which, when cut or broken, 

 do not foon recover ; and it feldom 

 produces many Fibres near the 

 Stem. 



The Wood of this Shrub is great- 

 ly ufed in the Southern Parts of 

 France, where it grows in great 

 Plenty, to dye their woollen Cloths 

 of a yellow Colour, or Feuillemorte ; 

 and the Tanners ufe the Leaves to 

 prepare their Skins ; from whence it 

 was called Co! in us Coriaria. 



The fecond Sort was brought from 

 the Bahama I Hands by Mr. Catejby ; 

 it alfo grows in molt of "the Iflands 

 in the We/I- Indies : this moots up 

 with many Stems, to the Height of 

 eight or ten Feet, and forms a Sort 

 of Thicket : the Flowers are fmall 

 and white, and are produced in Cu- 



llers : after thefe the Fruit come, 

 which are about the Size of a com- 

 mon Damafcene ; fome of them are 

 purple, fome red, and others yellow, 

 of a fweet lufcious Tafte ; and there 

 is a Succeflion of thefe Fruit moft 

 Part of the Year. 



This Sort is tender ; therefore will 

 not live in this Country, unlefs it is 

 preferved in a good Stove : it may 

 be propagated by the Stones of the 

 Fruit, which mould be brought over 

 in Sand, and put into Pots as foon as 

 they arrive; and the Pots muft be 

 plunged into a good Hot-bed ; and, 

 when the Plants come up, they muft 

 be kept in the Bark-ftove with other 

 tender Plants. 



COTONEA MALUS. Vide Cy- 

 donia. 



COTONE ASTER. /WrMefpi- 

 lus. 



COTULA FCETIDA. Vide Ch^ 

 majmelum Fostidum. 



COTYLEDON, Navelwort. 

 The Characters are ; 



It hath a Leaf Stalk, and the 

 whole Appearance, of Houjleek ; from 

 which it differs in having an oblong 

 tuhulous Flower conjijling of one Leaf 

 which is divided at the Top into five 

 Parts : the Fruit is like that of the 

 HouJIeek. 



The Difference made by Dr. Lini 

 nteus between this Genus and the 

 Craffula, is in the latter having but 

 five Stamina, and the Cotyledon ten ; 

 by which Method thefe two Genera 

 are removed to a great Diitance from 

 each other; though, in other more 

 eiTential Characters, they may be 

 brought nearer together, as they are 

 by Dr. Van Roy en, in his Flora Ley' 

 dcrfs ; fo that as the Cotyledon has 

 been leparated from the Sedum by its 

 Flower having but one Leaf, and the 

 Sedum twelve, it has alfo been fepa- 

 rated from 'the Craffula by its having 



a long 



