COR 
Natural order of Personatse. Vitices Jus- 
sieu. Essential character : calyx five- 
toothed ; stamina longer than the corolla; 
style very long ; berry one-seeded. There 
are two species, fir. C. pyraniidata , hoary- 
leaved cornutia ; and C. quinata ; the former 
is a native of the West Indies, Carapeachy, 
and la Vera Cruz, the latter of China in the 
woods near Canton. 
COROLLA, among botanists, the most 
conspicuous part of a flower, surrounding 
the organs of generation, and composed of 
one or more flower-leaves, most commonly 
called petals, to distinguish them from the 
leaves of the plant : according as there is 
one, two, or three of these petals, the co- 
rolla is said to be monopetalous, dipetalous, 
tripetaloHS, -SiC. 
COROLLARY is an useful consequence 
drawn from something already advanced or 
demonstrated : thus it being demonstrated 
that a triangle which has two equal sides, 
has also two angles equal ; this corollary 
will follow, that a triangle which has three 
sides equal, has also its three angles equal. 
CORONARL/E, in botany, the tenth 
order of plants, in Linnaeus Fragments of a 
Natural Method. Under this name Lin- 
nmus gives a great number of genera, most 
of which furnish veiy beautiful flowers, as 
the hyacinthirs, agave, polyanthus, &c. 
CORONATION, the public and solemn 
confirming the title, and acknowledging the 
l ight of governing to a king or queen ; at 
which time the prince swears reciprocally to 
the people, to observe the laws, customs, 
and privileges of the kingdom, and to act 
and do all firings conformable thereto. 
CORONER, an ancient officer of this 
kingdom, so called because he is wholly 
employed for the king and crown. "The 
office of coroners especially concerns the 
pleas of the crown ; and they are conserva- 
tors of the peace in the county where 
elected, being usually two for each county. 
Their authority is judicial and ministerial : 
judicial where a person comes to a violent 
death ; to take and enter appeals of murder, 
pronounce judgment on outlawries, &c. and 
to enquire into the lands, goods, arid escape 
of murderers, treasure- trove, wreck of the 
sea, deoclands, &c. The ministerial power 
is when coroners execute the king’s writs, 
on exception taken to the sheriff, as being 
party in a suit, of kin to either of the par- 
ties, or on the default of the sheriff, &c. 
The authority of the coroner does not ter- 
minate on the demise of the king. On 
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default of sheriffs, coroners are fo impannel 
juries, and to return issues on juries not 
appearing, &c. 
The coroner shall have for his fee, upon 
every inquistion taken upon the view of the 
body slain, ISs. 4d. of the goods and chat- 
tels of him that is the slayer and murderer, 
if he have any goods ; and if he have no 
goods, of such amerciament, as any town- 
ship should happen to be amerced for the 
escape of the murderer. 3 Hen. VIT. But 
as the said fee of 13s. 4d. is not an adequate 
reward for the general execution of the said 
office, therefore for every inquisition, not 
taken upon view of a body dying in gaol, 
the coroner shall have 20s. and also 9d. for 
every mile he shall be compelled to travel 
from his usual place of abode to take such 
inquisition; to be paid by order of the 
justices in sessions, out of the county rates. 
25 Geo. II. c. 29. s. 1. 
CORONILLA, in botany, a genus of the 
Diadelphia Decandria class and order. Na- 
tural order of Papilionaceae, or Legumi- 
nosae. Essential character: calyx two- 
lipped, the upper teeth connate ; standard 
scarcely longer than the wings ; legume 
contracted between the seeds. There are 
fourteen species, mostly natives of the 
South of France, Switzerland, Italy, and 
Geneva. 
CORPORAL, an inferior officer under a 
Serjeant, in a company of foot, who has. 
charge over one of the divisions, places and 
relieves centinels, and keeps good order in 
the corps de garde ; he also receives the> 
word from the inferior rounds, which passes 
by his corps de garde. This officer carries 
a fusee, and is commonly an old soldier : 
there are generally three corporals in each 
company. 
Corporal of a ship, an officer who has. 
the charge of setting and relieving the 
watches and centries, and who sees that 
the soldiers and sailors keep their arms 
neat and clean : he teaches them how to 
use their arms, and has a mate under him. 
CORPORATION, a body politic, or in- 
corporate, so called because the persons or 
members are joined into one body, and are 
qualified to take and grant, &c. Corpora- 
tions are eitlrer spiritual or temporal ; spiri- 
tual, as bishops, deans, archdeacons, par- 
sons, vicars, &c. Temporal, as mayor, 
commonalty, baililf, burgesses, &c. .'Ind' 
some corporations are of a mixed nature, 
composed of spiritual and temporal per- 
sons, such as heads of colleges and hospi- 
