After which, thofe which are planted out for good, will 
•require no other treatment but to keep them clean 
from weeds •„ and as they advance in height, they 
fhould be fupported by kicks, otherwife the ftrong 
winds in autumn often break them •, and thofe which 
were placed in a nurfery-bed, when they have obtained 
proper ftrength, fhould be taken up and tranlplanted 
with balls of earth to their roots, where they are de- 
figned to Hand for flowering. 
As thefe plants continue to produce flowers till the 
froft puts a flop to them, they merit a place in every 
curious garden, efpecially thofe which do not ramble 
and fpreadtoo much. The firft is the leak deferving 
of either, fo is feldom preferved, but in botanic gar- 
dens for the fake of variety. 
CORIANDRUM. Lin. Gen. Plant. 318. Tourn. 
Ink. R. H, 316. tab. 168. [of K opCdpov, of K ipu, Gr. 
a tick ; fo called, either becaufe it has the fcent of this 
infedt, or, as others fay, becaufe it drives away or 
kills them; and Midp©-’, Gr. the ifle where it grew 
plentifully.] Coriander. 
* The Characters are, 
It is a -plant with an umbellated flower ; the univerfal 
umbel hath but flew rays , the partial umbels have 
many. The firft hath no involucrum , but the latter hath 
a three-leaved one ; the proper empalement is divided into 
five parts ; the rays of' the principal umbel are difform. 
The hermaphrodite flowers which form the di/k , have five 
equal heart-foaped petals, which ar e inflexed , but thofe oft 
the rays have five unequal petals of the fame form ; they 
have each jive ftamina , terminated by roundtfh fummits. 
The germen which is Jituated under the flower , flupports 
two Jtyles , crowned by flmatt radiated ftigmas ; the germen 
afterward becomes a fpherical fruit , divided into two 
parts , each having a hemifpherical concave feed. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the lecond fedtion 
of Linnsus’s fifth clafs, intitled Pentandria Digynia, 
the flower having five kamina and two kyles. 
The Species are, 
1. Coriandrum ( Sativum ) frudibus globofls. Hort. 
Cliff. 100. Coriander with globular fruit. Coriandrum 
majus. C. B. P. 158. Greater Coriander. 
2 . Coriandrum (Tefticulatum) frudibus didymis. Hort. 
Cliff. 100. Coriander with twin fruit. Coriandrum 
minus tekiculatum. C. B. P. 158. 
The firft of thefe fpecies is the mok common kind, 
which is cultivated in the European gardens and fields 
for the feeds, which are ufed in medicine. The fe- 
cond fort is lefs common than the firk, and is feldom 
found but in botanic gardens in thefe parts of Eu- 
rope. Thefe plants grow naturally in the fouth of 
France, Spain, and Italy ; but the firk fort has been 
long cultivated in the gardens and fields, though at 
prefent there is not near fo much of it fown in Eng- 
land as was fome years pak. 
Thefe plants are propagated by fowing their feeds 
in the autumn, in an open lituation, on a bed of 
good frefh earth ; and when the plants are come up, 
they fhould be hoed out to about four inches dikance 
every way, clearing them from weeds ; by which 
management thefe plants will grow krong, and pro- 
duce a greater quantity of good feeds. The firk fort 
was formerly cultivated in the gardens as a fallad 
herb, and in the Eak-Indies is Hill much cultivated ; 
for the plant is of great ufe in mok of their compound 
diilies, as a culinary herb, and the feeds are alfo much 
ekeemed for the like purpofes ; but in Europe neither 
of them are now much ufed. 
The fecond fort will rife eafily from feeds, if they are 
fown in the autumn ; but thofe which are fown in the 
fpring rarely fucceed, or at leak do not come up till 
the following fpring. 
CORIARIA. Lin. Gen. Plant. 458. Niffol. Ad. 
Reg. 1 71 1. Myrtle-leaved Sumach, vulgo. 
The Characters are, 
It is male and hermaphrodite in different plants ; the male 
flowers have a five-leaved empalement ; the flower has 
jive leaves , which are joined to the empalement ; thefe 
have ten fender ftamina , term-mated by oblong fummits ; 
the hermaphrodite flowers have the like empalement , and I 
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the flame number of petals , and in the center are placed 
jive point als, which turn to a berry , inclofmg five kidney - 
jhaped feeds. 
This is ranged in the ninth fedion of Linnaeus’s 
twenty-iecond clafs, intitled Dicecia Decandria, the 
plants having male and hermaphrodite flowers on dif- 
ferent roots. 
The Species are, 
1. Coriaria ( Myrtifolia ) foliis ovato oblongis. Hort. 
Uplal. 299. . Myrtle-leaved Sumach , with oblong Oval 
leaves. Coriaria vulgaris mas. Niffol. Ad. 1711. 
2. Coriaria ( Fomina ) vulgaris foernina. Lin. Hort. 
Cliff. Fe?nale Myrtle-leaved Sumach. 
The forthwith male flowers has been the mok com- 
mon in England, the other having been very rarely 
raffed in our gardens : 'a few years pak, when fome 
plants were raifed from feeds, which came from Italy, 
in the Chelfea garden, where the plants fo raffed 
have mok of them proved of the hermaphrodite fort, 
and have produced great quantities of feeds, which 
have grown, though there is not one plant of the 
male fort at prefent in the garden ; the not finding 
any plants in the Enghlff gardens, but thofe with 
male flowers, occafioned my Writing abroad for the 
feeds. . Thefe grow wild in great plenty about Mont- 
pelier in France, where it is ufed for tanning of lea- 
ther ; and, from this ufe, has been titled by the bota- 
niks, Rhus coriariorum, i. e. Tanners Sumach. 
Thefe fhrubs feldom grow more than three or four 
feet high ; and as they creep at the root, they fend 
forth many kerns, whereby they form a thicket, fo 
may be planted to fill up vacancies in wildernels quar- 
ters ; 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 krange that Monfieur Niffol, who lived upon ’ 
the place where thefe grew in plenty, who conkituted 
this genus, in the Memoirs of the Acadamy at Paris, 
has taken no notice of their being male and herma- 
phrodite in different plants. 
It may be propagated plentifully from the fuckers, 
which are produced from the creeping roots in great 
abundance ; thefe fhould be taken off in March, and 
planted into a nurfery to form good roots, where 
they may continue one or two years, and then muk be 
removed to the places where they are to remain. 
This plant delights in a loamy foil which is not too 
kiff, and fhould be placed where it may have flicker 
from the north and eak winds ; where it will endure 
the cold of our ordinary winters very well, and will 
flower better than if it is preferved in pots and flicker- 
ed in the winter, as hath been by fome pradtifed. 
C O R I N D U M. See Cardiospermum. 
COR. IS. Lin. Gen. Plant. 216. Tourn. Ink. 652. 
tab. 423. We have no Englifh name for this plant. 
The Characters are, 
The empalement of the flower is of one leaf, with a 
/welling belly f but clo fled at the top , where it is divided 
into jive parts, which are crowned by jive flpines ; the 
flower hath one irregular petal, whofle tube is the length 
of the empalement, and flpread open at the top , where it is 
divided into jive oblong figments, which are obtufle and 
indented ; it hath five briftly ftamina , terminated by fingle 
fummits. In the center is Jituated a round germen, /up- 
per ting a fender declining fly le, crowned by a thick fltigma ; 
the empalement afterward becomes a globular capflule , hav- 
ing jive valves, inclofmg fever al fmall oval feeds. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firk fedtion of 
Linnaeus’s fifth clafs, intitled Pentandria Monogynia, 
the flower having five ftamina and one ftyle. 
We have but one Species of this plant, viz. 
Coris ( Monfpelienfis ). Hort. Cliff. 68. Coris casrulea 
maritima. C. B. P. 280. Blue maritime Coris. 
There are two other varieties of this plant, one with a 
red, and the other a white flower, but thefe are only- 
accidental varieties arifins; from the fame feeds. 
Thefe plants grow wild about Montpelier, and in 
many other parts of the fouth of France, and alfo in 
Italy ; they feldom grow above fix inches high, and 
fpread 
