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towers will appear by the beginning of February j 
and though there is no great beauty in the flowers, 
yet, as they are generally produced in plenty, at a 
feafon when few other flowers appear upon trees, a 
few plants of them may be admitted for variety. 
The fruit of this tree is feldom ripe before Septem- 
ber. The tree will grow eighteen or twenty feet 
high, and make a large head. 
The third fort is an American, from whence the feeds 
have been brought to England : this is found in all 
northern parts of America, as are alfo the fourth, 
fifth, and fixth forts, being natives of the woods in 
Virginia, New England, Maryland, and Carolina. 
Thefe are all of them very hardy, and thrive well in 
the open air in England, fo are cultivated by the nur- 
fery-men near London, to add to the variety of their 
hardy trees : thefe grow to the fame height with our 
common female Dogberry, and make a much better 
appearance. The fhoots of the fifth fort are of a beau- 
tiful red colour in winter •, and in fummer the leaves 
being large, of a whitifh colour on their under 
fide, and the bunches of white flowers growing at the 
extremity of every branch, renders this fhrub valua- 
ble ; and in autumn, when the large bunches of blue 
berries are ripe, they make a fine appearance. 
The third fort is now very common in the nurferies, 
where it is known by the name of Virginia Dogwood. 
This fort is of much humbler growth than either of 
the former, feldom rifing above feven or eight feet 
high, but is generally well garnifhed with leaves, 
which are larger than either of the other forts. This 
does not flower fo plentifully as the other forts, nor 
have I yet feen any of thefe fhrubs, which have pro- 
duced berries in England, though they are as hardy 
as the other. 
There is a variety of this with a red involucrum or 
cover to the flowers, which adds to the beauty of the 
.plant j this was found wild in Virginia by Mr. Ba- 
nifter, and afterward by Mr. Catefby. This and the 
former fort are great ornaments to the woods in A- 
merica, firft by their early flowering in the fpring be- 
fore the green leaves appear •, and in the winter they 
are alfo beautiful when the berries are ripe, which hang 
upon the fhrubs till the fpring. 
The eighth fort grows upon Cheviot-hills in Nor- 
thumberland, and alfo upon the Alps, and other 
mountainous places in the northern countries, but is 
very difficult to preferve in gardens ; the only me- 
thod is, to remove the plants from the places of their 
natural growth, with good balls of earth to their 
roots, and plant them in a moift fhady fituation, 
where they are not annoyed by the roots of other 
plants. In fuch a fituation they may be preferved 
two or three years, but it rarely happens that they 
will continue much longer. This is a low herbaceous 
plant, whofe ftalks decay in the autumn. 
All the forts of Dogwood may be propagated by their 
feeds, which, if fown in autumn foon after they are 
ripe, will moft of them come up the following fpring ; 
but if the feeds are not fown in autumn, they will lie 
a year in the ground before the plants will appear, 
and when the year proves dry, they will lbmetimes 
regain two years in the ground •, therefore the place 
fhouid not be difturbed, where thefe feeds are fown, 
under two years, if the plants fnould not come up 
fooner. When the plants are come up, they fhouid 
be duly watered in dry weather, and kept clean from 
weeds ; and the autumn following they may be re- 
moved, and planted in beds in the nurfery, where 
they may remain two years, by which time they will 
be fit to tranfplant where they are to remain for good. 
They are alfo propagated by fuckers, and laying 
down the branches. Moft of the forts produce plen- 
ty of fuckers, efpecially when they are planted on a 
moift light foil, which may be taken off from the old 
plants in autumn, and planted into a nurfery for a 
year or two, and then may be tranfplanted into the 
places where they are to remain ; but thofe plants 
which are propagated by fuckers, rarely have fo good 
roots as thofe. which are propagated by layers, and 
- being much more inclinable to {hoot otit Tuckers, 
whereby they will fill, the ground round them with 
their fpawn, they are not near fo valuable as thofe 
plants which are railed from layers. 
CORNUTIA. Plum, Nov. Gen. 17. Lin. Gen. 
Plant. 684. Agnanthus. IVaill. A& R, 1722. We 
have no Englifh name for this plant. It is fo called 
from Cornutus, a phyftcian of Paris, who publifhed 
a hiftory of Canada plants 
The Characters are. 
The flozver hath a j mall permanent empalemmt of one 
leaf which is tubular , and indented in five parts at the 
top. The flower is of one petal , having a cylindrical 
tube , which is much longer than the empalement , and di- 
vided into four parts at the top ; the upper fltgment is 
round and eredt, the two fide ones fpread apart * and the 
lower is round and entire. It hath four fiamina , two of 
thefe are longer than the tube , the other are floor ter ; they 
are terminated by inclining fummits. In the center is fitu- 
ated the roundifh germen , fupporting a long ftyle , divided 
into two parts , crowned by tzvo thick Jiigmas . The ger- 
rtien afterward becomes a globular berry , fitting upon thi 
empalemmt , inclofing fever al kidney-jhaped feeds. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond fedion 
of Linnteus’s fourteenth clafs, intitled Didynamk 
Angiofpermia, the flowers having two long and 
two fhort ftamina, and the feeds are included in a 
capfule. 
There is but one Species of this genus, viz. 
Cornutia [fPy rami data). Hort. Cliff. 319. Cornutia 
flore pyramidato aeruleo, foliis iicanis. Nov. Gen. 
32. Cornutia with a blue pyramidal flower and hoary 
leaves. 
This plant was firft difcovered by father Plunder in 
America, who gave it the name. It is found in plen- 
ty in feveral of the iflands in the Weft-Indies, as alfo 
at Campeachy and La Vera Cruz, from both which 
places I received the feeds, which were colleded by 
my late ingenious friend Dr. William Houftoun, and 
afterward by Mr. Robert Millar, from the fame coun- 
try. It grows to the height of ten or twelve feet ; 
the branches are four-cornered, grow ftraggling, and 
the leaves are placed oppofite. The flowers are pro- 
duced in fpikes at the end of the branches, which are 
of a fine blue colour ; thefe ufually appear in autumn, 
and lbmetimes will remain in beauty for two months 
or more. 
It is propagated by feeds, which fhouid be fown early 
in the fpring on a hot-bed ; and when the plants are 
come up, they fhouid be tranfplanted each into a fe- 
parate halfpenny pot, filled with light frefh earth, and 
plunged into' a hot-bed of tanners bark, ohferving to 
ftiade them until they have taken root; after which 
they fhouid have frefh air let into the bed, in propor- 
tion to the warmth of the feafon, and fhouid be fre- 
quently watered (for it naturally grows on fwarnpy 
foils.) When the plants have filled thefe pots with 
their roots, they fhouid be Ihifted into others of a 
larger fize, and plunged into a hot-bed again, where 
they fhouid be continued till Gftober, when they rnulfc 
be removed into the bark-ftove, and plunged into the 
tan, for otherwife it will be very difficult to preferve 
them through the winter. The ftove in which thefe 
plants are placed fhouid be kept to the temperate heat 
marked on Mr. Fowler’s thermometers, which will 
agree better with them than a hotter ftove. The third 
year from feeds thefe plants will flower, when they 
make a fine appearance in the ftove, but they neyer 
perfedt their feeds in England. 
They may alfo be propagated by cuttings, which, if 
planted into pots filled with earth, and plunged into 
a bark-bed, obferving to fhade and water them, will 
take root, andmuft be afterwards treated as the feed- 
ling plants. ' ' 
CORONA IMPERIAL IS. See Fritillarm. 
CORONA SOLIS. See Helianthus. 
CORONILL A, jointed-podded Colutea. 
The Characters are, 
The flower hath ■ a fhort permanent empalement of one 
leaf which is compreffed , bifid , and efefit. li hath a 
butterfly 
