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fpread near the furface of the ground like heath ; and 
in June, when they are full of flowers, they make a 
very pretty appearance. 
They may be propagated by fowing their feeds in the 
fpring, on a bed of frelh earth ; and when the plants 
are about an inch high, they fhould be tranfplanted, 
fome of them into pots filled with frefh light earth, 
that they may be flickered in winter ; and the others 
into a warm border, where they will endure the cold 
of our ordinary winters very well, but in fevere froft 
they are generally deftroyed •, for which reafon, it will 
be proper to have fome plants of each fort in pots, 
which may be put under a common hot-bed frame in 
winter, where they may be covered in frofty weather ; 
but when it is mild, they fhould have a great fhare 
of free air : thefe plants fometimes produce ripe feeds 
in England ; but as they do not conftantly perfedt 
their feeds, it will be proper to increafe them from 
flips and cuttings, which will take root, if planted 
about the end of Auguft on a very gentle Iiot-bed, 
and iliaded from the fun and duly watered. 
COR IS PER MUM. Lin. Gen. Plant. 12. Juffi 
A£fr. R. S. 1712. Tickfeed. 
The Characters are. 
The flower hath no empalement , it hath two comprejfled 
incurved petals, which ftand oppofite and are equal-, it 
hath one , two, or three ftamina, which arc floor ter than 
the petals, terminated byfingle fummits , with a comprejfled 
pointed germen, fupporting two hairy jlyles, crowned by 
acute ftigmas. The germen afterward becomes one oval 
comprejfled fleed, with an acute border . 
This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond fedlion 
of Linnteus’s firft clafs, intitled Monandria Digynia, 
the flower having one ftamina and two ftyles. 
The Species are, 
1, Corispermum ( Hyflopifloliim ) floribus lateralibusHort. 
Upfal. 2. Tickfeed with flowers on the fide of the flalks. 
Corifpermum Hyflopifolium. Jufti A£t. R. S. 1712. 
Hyjflop-leaved Tickfeed. 
2. Corispermum ( Squarroflum ) fpicis fquarrofls.' Hort. 
Upfal. 3. Tickfeed with rough fpikes. Rhagroftis foliis 
arundinaceis. Buxb. Cent. 3. p. 30. Rhagroflis with 
Reed-like leaves. 
Thefe plants are preferved in botanic gardens for the 
fake of variety *, but as they have no beauty, are fel- 
dom cultivated in other gardens. 
The firft fort is an annual plant, which, if fuftered to 
fcatter its feeds, the ground will be plentifully flocked 
with the plants, which will require no other care but 
to prevent the weeds from over-growing them. 
The fecond will not grow but in marlhy places, 
where there is Handing water j over the furface of 
which this plant will foon extend, when once it is 
eftablifhed. 
As we had no Englifh name to this genus, I have 
given it this of Tickfeed, which correfponds with the 
Greek name. 
CORK-TREE. See Quercus. 
CORN-FLAG. See Gladiolus. 
CORNICULATEPLANTS [Plante Corni- 
culate,] are fuch, as after each flower, produce many 
horned feed-pods, called Siliquae, 
COR N-M ARIGOLD. See Chrysanthemum. 
CORN-SAL LAD. See Valeriana. 
CORNU S. Lin. Gen. Plant. 139. Tourn. Inft. 641. 
tab. 410. [fo called, of Cornu, Lat. a horn •, becaufe 
its wood, or the fhell of its fruit, is hard as a horn.] 
The Cornelian Cherry. 
The Characters are. 
It hath many flowers included in one common four-leaved 
involucrum, which is coloured. The flowers have each 
a fmall empalement , fitting on the germen, which is in- 
dented in four parts. They have four plain petals , which 
are fmaller than the leaves of the involucrum , and four 
ere T ftamina, which are longer than the petals, termi- 
nated by roundifh fummits. The round germen fituated be- 
low the empalement , fupports a fender flyle, crowned by 
an obtufe ftigma. The germen afterward becomes an oval, 
or roundbfh berry, inclofng a nut, with two cells , having 
cm oblong kernel 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fedtioh of 
Linnieus’s' fourth clafs, intitled Tetrandria Mono- 
gynia, the flowers having four ftamina and but one 
ftyle. 
The Specirs are, 
1. Cornus (ft anguine a) arborea, cymis nudis. It. Weft- 
goth. Lin. Sp. Plant, 117. Dogwood-tree with naked 
fljoots. Cornus feemina. C. B. P. 447. Female Dog- 
wood, and the Virga Sanguinea. Matth. 
2. Cornus {Mas) arborea, umbellis involucrum mquan- 
tibus. Hort. Cliff. 38. Tree Dogwood with umbels equal 
to the involucrum. Cornus hortenfis mas. C. B. P. 447= 
Male Cornel, or Cornelian Cherry-tree . 
3. Cornus {Florida) arborea, involucro maximo, folio- 
lis obverse cordatis. Hort. Cliff. 38. Tree Dogwood 
with a very large involucrum , and obverfe heart-Jhaped 
leaves. Cornus mas, Virginiana, flofeulis in corymbo 
digeftis, a perianthio tetrapetalo albo radiatini cindEs. 
Pluk. Aim. 120. 
4. Cornus ( Feemina ) arborea, foliis lanceolatis, acutis, 
nervofis, floribus corymbofis terminalibus. Tree Dog- 
wood with fpear-floaped acute leaves which are veined, 
and flowers difpofed in a corymbus, terminating the 
branches. Cornus foemina Virginiana anguftiore fo- 
lio. Edit, prior. Female Virginia Dogwood with a nar- 
rower leaf. 
5. Cornus ( Amomum ) arborea foliis ovatis petiolatis, 
floribus corymbofis terminalibus. Tree Dogwood with 
oval leaves having foot-ftalks, and flowers collebled into a 
corymbus at the end of the branches. Cornus Ameri- 
cana fylveftris, domefticte fimilis, bacca caerulei colo- 
ns elegantiffima, Amomum Novae Anglise quorun- 
dam. Pluk. Phyt. tab. 169. f. 3. By fome fuppofed to 
be the true Amomum of New England. 
6 . Cornus {Candidijfima) arborea foliis lanceolatis, acu- 
tis, glabris, umbellis involucro minoribus, baccis 
ovatis. Tree Dogwood with flmooth, fpear-Jhaped, pointed, 
leaves, umbels fmaller than the involucrum, and oval ber- 
ries. Cornus feemina candidiflimis foliis Americana. 
Pluk. Aim. 120. 
7. Cornus (' Tartarica ) arborea foliis oblongo ovatis, ner- 
vofis, inferne albis, floribus corymbofis terminalibus. 
Tree Dogwood with oblong , oval, veined leaves, white on 
their under fide , and flowers growing in a corymbus at the 
end of the branches. Cornus fylveftris fructu albo. 
Amman. Ruth. Wild Dogwood with a white fruit. 
8. Cornus {Suecica) herbacea ramis binis. FI. Lapp. 55. 
Herbaceous Dogwood with double branches. Cornus pu- 
mila herbacea, chamaepericlymenum didta. Hort. 
Elth. 108. Low herbaceous Dogwood, called Dwarf Ho- 
neyfuckle. 
The firft of thefe trees is very common in the hedges 
in divers parts of England, and is feldom preferved 
in gardens. The fruit of this plant is often brought 
into the markets, and fold for Buckthorn berries, 
from which it may be eaflly diftinguifhed, if the ber- 
ries are opened to obferve how many ftones there are 
in each ; which in this fruit is but one, but in the 
Buckthorn four, and they may be eaflly diftinguifhed 
by rubbing the juice of the berries on paper ; that of 
the Buckthorn will ftain the paper green, whereas the 
juice of this ftains it purple. This tree is called Virga 
Sanguinea, from the young fhoots being of a fine red 
colour. There is a variety of this tree with variegated 
leaves, which is preferved in the nurferies, but is not 
much efteemed. 
The fecond fort is very common in the Englifh gar- 
dens, where it was formerly propagated for its fruit, 
which was by fome people preferved to make tarts. It 
is alfo ufed in medicine as an aftringent and cooler : 
there is alfo an officinal preparation of this fruit, call- 
ed Rob de Cornis. Of this there are two or three, 
varieties, which differ only in the colour of their 
fruit, but that with the red fruit is the moft common 
in England. 
As the fruit of this tree is not atprefent much efteem- 
ed, the nurfery-men about London propagate it as 
one of the forts which is commonly fold as a flowering 
lhr,ub, and is by fome people valued for coming fo 
early to flower for if the feafon is mild, the 
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