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Anifeed. It flowers in June, and the feeds ripen in 
autumn. 
The fecond fort differs from the firft, in having taller 
4 lalks, which are not fo much fpotted. The leaves 
are much narrower, and of a paler green ; and this 
difference is conftant, for I have cultivated it near 
twenty years in the Chelfea garden, where it has not 
varied. The feeds were fent me from Germany, 
where it grows naturally. This is biennial as the 
former. 
The third fort grows naturally near the Gape of Good 
Hope, in Africa, from whence the feeds were brought 
to Holland, where the plants have been preferved in 
fome of their curious gardens of plants. The feeds 
of this plant were fent me by the late Dr. Boerhaave, 
profeffor of Botany at Leyden. This plant rarely 
grows more than nine inches high ; the lower leaves 
are divided fomewhat like thofe of the fmall wild Rue, 
and are of a grayifh colour ; thofe upon the ftalk are 
much narrower, but of the fame colour •, thefe are 
terminated by umbels of white flowers, each of the 
larger umbels being compofed of three fmall ones ; 
the involucrum hath three narrow leaves, fituated 
under the umbel. This flowers in July, and ripens 
feed in autumn, foon after which the plants decay. 
The firft fort grows wild in moft parts of England, 
fo is feldom allowed room in gardens, becaufe it is 
fuppofed to have a poifonous quality •, fome phyficians 
have affirmed that it is fo to all animals, while others 
have affured us, that it is eaten by the inhabitants of 
fome parts of Italy when it is young, and is by them 
efteemed a great dainty. Mr. Ray mentions that he 
has found the gizzard of a thruffi, full of Hemlock 
feeds, with four or five grains of Corn, intermixed 
with it, which, in the time of harveft, that bird had 
neglefted for Hemlock, fo very fond was it of that 
feed which we reckon pernicious. However, it is very 
certain, that fcarce any animal will eat the green herb; 
for it is very common to fee the grafs, and moft other 
weeds eat clofe where cattle are allowed to feed, and 
all the plants of Hemlock, which were growing left 
untouched. 
This plant is efteemed by many phyficians, as an ex- 
cellent remedy to diflolve fchirrous tumors ; and 
fome have greatly recommended it for cancers, and 
moft of them agree, that it may be prefcribed as a 
good narcotic. 
The fecond fort is preferved in fome botanic gardens 
for the fake of variety. If the feeds of this are per- 
mitted to fcatter, the plants will come up in plenty, 
fo if they are not rooted out, will become as trouble- 
fome weeds as the firft fort. 
The third fort is an humble plant, and being tender, 
will never become troublefome ; for unlefs the winters 
are very favourable, this plant will not live in the 
open air in England. The feeds of this fort ffiould 
be fo- wn in pots in autumn foon after they are ripe, 
and placed under a common frame in winter, where 
they may be expofed to the open air at all times when 
the weather is mild, and only covered in bad weather. 
The plants will come up very early in the fpring, and 
muft then be expofed to the open air conftantly when 
the weather will permit, otherwife they will draw up 
very weak. As thefe plants do not bear tranlplant- 
ing well, they fhould be thinned, and not more than 
four or five left in each pot ;. and as the plants have 
no great beauty, a few of them will be lufficient to 
continue the fort, where a variety of plants are pre- 
ferved. The other culture is only to keep them clean 
from weeds, and in very dry weather to water them. 
There is another fpecies of this genus according to 
moft of the botanifts, which is now feparated from it, 
and placed fingiy, under the title of iEthufa. This 
was titled, Cicuta minor petrofelino fimilis, by Caf- 
par Bauhin, i. e. Smaller Hemlock with the appearance 
of Parfley. This is a weed which frequently is found 
in gardens, efpecially in rich ground, and is gene- 
rally fuppofed to be very poifonous : fome perfons 
who have ignorantly gathered this herb, and ufed it 
for Parfiey, having been poifoned by it. Therefore 
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it was formerly called Fools Parfley. This may be 
diftinguiftied from Parfley, by the narrownefs of the 
fmall leaves, which are alfo more pointed, .and of a 
darker green. But thofe who are afraid of being de- 
ceived in this, fhould always ufe the curled Parfley, 
which is fo different from this, that it cannot be 
miftaken for it. 
CGNNARUS. Zeylon Sumach. 
The Characters are, 
It hath a woolly ere hi empalement of one leaf, cut into five 
fegments , which is permanent , and five fpear-fioaped erect 
petals which are equal ; it has ten awl-fhaped ftamina , 
which are joined at their bafc , and are alternately long 
and fhort , terminated by roimdifio fummits , and a round 
germen fupporting a cylindrical ftyle , crowned by an ob~ 
tufe fiigma ; the empalement afterward becomes an obloiqg 
gibbous capfule opening with two valves , having one cell , 
inclofing one large oval feed. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond order of 
Linnsus’s fifteenth clafs, intitled Monodelphia De~ 
candria, the flower having ten ftamina, which are 
joined in one houfe. 
We know but one Species of this genus, viz. , 
Connarus ( Monocarpos ). Flor. Zeyl. 248. One feeded 
Connarus. Rhus Zeylanicus trifoliatus, phafeoli facie, 
floribus copiofis fpicatrs. Burn. Zeyl. 199. tab. 89. 
This plant grows naturally in India; it rifes with a 
ligneous ftalk eight or ten feet high, which is hard, 
rigid, and covered with a black bark, and diyides 
upward into two or three branches, garnifhed with 
trifoliate leaves, having long foot-ftalks placed al- 
ternate ; the lobes are oval, fmooth, and entire, each 
having a fhort petiolus fattened to the foot-ftalk ; 
thefe remain green the whole year : the flowers are 
produced in large panicles at the extremity of the 
branches, they are fmall, hairy, and of a greenifh 
yellow colour, but are rarely fucceeded by feeds in 
Europe. 
This plant is ufually propagated in the gardens by- 
laying down the young branches* which, if tongued, 
(in the manner pradtifed for Carnations) and duly 
watered, will put out roots in twelve months, when 
they may be cut off from the old plants, and each 
planted in a feparate fmall pot, filled with frefti light 
earth, plunging them into a moderate hot-bed, to 
forward their taking new root, obferving to fhade 
them from the fun every day, and to water them as 
they may require it : after this the plants fhould be 
treated in the fame way as other exotic plants which 
are not too tender, placing them in a dry ftove in 
winter, and for about three months in the fummer 
they may be removed into the open air* in a warm 
flickered fituation. 
The cuttings of this plant will fometimes take root, 
if they are planted in pots, plunged into a moderate 
hot-bed of tanners bark, and clofely covered with 
hand-glaffes, or fmall bell-glaffes; but unlefs they are 
carefully managed they feldom fucceed. 
If frefti feeds can be procured from abroad, they 
fhould be fown in fmall pots, plunged into a mo- 
derate hot-bed, and when the plants are fit to remove 
they fhould be feparated, planting each into a feparate 
pot, and plunged into a moderate hot- bed, treating 
them in the manner as the layers. 
CONOCARPODENDRON. See Protea. 
CONOCARPUS. Lin. Gen. Plant. 236. Rudbeckia. 
Houft. Nov. Gen. 21. Button-tree, vulgb. 
The Characters are, 
The flowers are collebied in a globular head , each ftanding 
in a fcaly empalement. At the bottom is fituated a large 
compreff'ed germen , crowned by the empalement of the 
flower , which is fmall , fharp-pcinted , and divided into 
five parts at the top. The flower hath five petals ; it 
hath five , or fometimes ten flender ftamina , which extend 
beyond the petals,- terminated by globular fummits . The 
germen is large , comprejjed, and oh tufe, fupporting a Jingle 
ftyle which is longer than the ftamina, and is crowned by 
an obtufe fiigma. 'The germen afterward becomes a Jingle 
feed , inciofed in the fcde of the fruit , 'which is fhaped like 
the cone of Alder, 
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