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The third fort is very common in moil parts of I 
America, where it is cultivated as a culinary fruit •, j 
of this fort there are alfo feveral varieties, which differ 
in their form and fize ; fome of thefe are flat, others 
round •, fome are fhaped like a bottle, and others are 
oblong, their outer cover or rind being white when 
ripe, and covered with large protuberances or warts. 
The fruit are commonly gathered when they are half 
grown, and boiled by the inhabitants of America to 
eat as a fauce with their meat ; but in England they 
are only cultivated by way of curiofity, few perfons 
having a relifh for them here, where they have a great 
variety of better efculent plants at that feafon, when 
theie are fit for ufe. Thefe may be propagated in 
the fame manner as the fecond fort. 
The fourth fort is alfo very common in North Ame- 
rica, where it is cultivated for the fame purpofes as 
the third. This very often grows with a ftrong, 
bulky, ere6t ftalk, without putting out runners from 
the fide, as the other forts, but frequently varies ; 
for after it has been cultivated a few years in the 
fame garden, the plants will become trailing like 
the others, and extend their branches to as great 
diftance •, and yet I have known when part of the 
feeds, taken out from the fame fruit have been fown 
in another garden, at a confiderable diftance, the 
fruit have been the fame, and the plants have grown 
ered, when thofe which were fown in the fame garden, 
have produced trailing plants with larger fruit of a 
different lhape. 
The fruit of the fifth fort hath a hard fhell when 
ripe like the firft, which may be dried and preferved 
many years : thefe are of very different forms and 
fize ; fome are ff aped like a Pear, and are no bigger 
than a large Catherine Pear ; fome are as large as 
quart bottles, and almoft of the fame form ; others 
are round and fhaped like an Orange, and are of the 
fame fize and colour, but thefe are very variable *, 
for I have cultivated moft of the forts near forty 
years, and have not been able, with all poflible care, 
to preferve the varieties longer than two or three 
years in the fame garden, without procuring frefh 
feeds from fome diftant place. Whether thefe changes 
are brought about by the admixture of the farina 
with each other, or from what caufe I cannot fay, 
becaufe I have frequently planted them at as great 
diftance from each other as I poffibly could in the 
fame garden, and yet the effeeft has been the fame 
as when near. 
The firft fort requires to be treated more tenderly 
than the others, in order to procure ripe fruit ; fo 
the feeds fhould be fown upon a moderate hot-bed in 
April, and the plants afterward planted each into a 
penny pot, and plunged into a very moderate hot- 
bed to bring them forward ; but they muft not be 
tenderly treated, for if they have not a large ff are of 
free air admitted to them every day, they will draw 
up weak. When the plants are grown too large to 
be continued in the pots, there fhould be holes dug 
where they are defigned to grow, and three or four 
barrows full of hot dung put into each j thefe fhould 
be covered with earth, into which the plants muft 
be planted, and covered with hand-glaffes till they 
run out. 
There are fome people who plant thefe plants by the 
fides of arbours, over which they train the vines ; fo 
that in a fhort time they will cover the whole arbour, 
and afford a ftrong fhade, and upon fome of thefe 
arbours I have feen the longeft fruit. There are 
others who plant them near walls, pales, or hedges, 
to which they faften the Vines, and train them to a 
great height : the Orange-fhaped Gourd is the fort 
which is moft commonly fo planted for the ornament 
of its fruit, which has a pretty effedt, efpecially when 
feen at fome diftance. All the forts require a large 
fupply of water in dry weather. 
Thefe plants requiring fo much room to fpread, and 
their fruit being very little valued in England, hath 
occasioned their not being cultivated amongft us ; we 
having fo many plants, roots, or fruits, which are 
CUN 
greatly preferable to thofe for kitchen ufes : but In 
fome parts of America, where provi lions are not in 
fo great plenty, or fo great variety, thefe fruits may 
be very acceptable. 
CUI ETE See Crescentia. 
CULMIFEROUS PLANTS [fo called of 
Culmus, Lat. ftraw or haulm,] are fuch as have a- 
fimooth jointed ftalk, ufually hollow, and at each ioint 
wrapped about with fingle, narrow, Sharp-pointed 
leaves •, and their feeds are contained in chaffy hulks, 
as Wheat, Barley, &c. 
CUMINOIDES. See Lagoecia. 
CUMINUM. Lin. Gen. Plant. 313. Mor. U.mb. 
K vy.iw, Gr. Cumin. 
The Characters are. 
It hath an umbelliferous flower-, the general umbel is com- 
pofed of f mailer , which are divided into four parts their 
involucrum is longer than the umbel. The great umbel is 
uniform-, the flowers have five unequal petals, whofe bor- 
ders are inflexed , and five fingle ftamina , terminated by 
fiender fummits. It hath a large germen fituated under 
the flower , fupporting two fmall ftyles , crowned by fingle 
ftigmas. The germen afterward becomes an oval ftriated 
fruit , compofed of two oval feeds , which are convex and 
furrowed on one fide , and plain on the other. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond fedtion 
of Linnaeus’s filth clafs, intitled Pentandria Digynia, 
the flower having five ftamina and two ftyles. 
We have but one Species of this genus, viz. 
Cuminum ( Cyminum .) Lin. Mat. Med. 139. Cumin. 
Cuminum femine longiore. C. B. P. 146. Cumin with 
a longer feed. 
This plant is annual, perilhing foon after the feeds 
are ripe •, it feldom rifes more than nine or ten inches 
high, in the warm countries where it is cultivated ; 
but I have never feen it grow more than three or 
four inches high in England, where I have fometimes 
had the plants come fo far as to flower very well, but 
never to produce feeds. The leaves of this plant are 
divided into long narrow fegments like thofe of 
Fennel, but much fmaller ; they are of a deep green* 
and generally turn backward at their extremity ; the 
flowers grow in fmall umbels at the top of the {talks; 
thefe are compofed of five unequal petals, which are 
of a pale bluff colour, and are fucceeded by long, 
channelled, aromatic feeds. 
The feeds of this plant is the only part ufed in me- 
dicine ; thefe are ranged among the greater hot feeds ; 
they confift of very warm diffolving parts, and are 
efteemed good to expel wind out of the ftomach and 
bowels, fo they are frequently put into clyfters for 
that purpofe, and are fometimes given in powder ; 
and outwardly applied, they are of great fervice to 
eafe the pains of the breaft or fide. 
This plant is propagated for fale in the ifland of 
Malta, where it is called Cumino aigro, i. e. hot 
Cumin. But Anife, which they alfo propagate in 
no lefs quantity, they call Cumino dulce, i. e. fiweet 
Cumin. So that many of the old botanifts were 
miftaken, when they made two fpecies of Cumin, 
viz. acre and dulce. 
If the feeds of this plant are fown in fmall pots filled 
with light kitchen-garden earth, and plunged into a 
very moderate hot-bed to bring up the plants, and 
thefe after having been gradually inured to the open 
air, turned out of the pots, and planted in a warm 
border of good earth, preferving the balls of earth 
to their roots, and afterward kept clean from weeds, 
the plants will flower pretty well, and by thus 
bringing of the plants forward in the fpring, they may 
perfect their feeds in very warm feafons. 
C UNI LA. See Sideritis. 
CUNONIA. Buttn. Cun. tab. 1. Antholyza. Lin. 
Gen. Plant. 56. 
The Characters are, 
The flowers grow alternate in an imbricated J pike , each 
having a flpatha or /heath, compofed of two fpear-Jhaped 
concave leaves -, the flower hath one ringent petal, having 
a fhort fender tube , which is dilated at the chaps , and 
comprejfed on the fides \ the upper lip is arched , and 
jlretched 
