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CON'NA,y] in botany. See Cassia Fistula. 
CON'NARUS, /'. [y.oma.poc, is the name of a tree de- 
fcribed at length in Aihenaeus.] In botany, a genus of 
the clafs monadelphia, order decandria, natural order 
dumofie. The generic characters are—Calyx : perian- 
thium one-Ieafed, five-parted, ereft, tomentofe, perma¬ 
nent. Corolla : petals five, lanceolate, ereCt, equal. 
Stamina : filaments ten, fubulate, ereCt, connected at the 
bafe ; alternately of the length of the flower, and alter¬ 
nately very ihort; anther® roundilh. Piftillum: germ 
roundilh ; ftyle cylindric ; ftigma obtufe. Pericarpium : 
capfule oblong, gibbous, one-celled, two-valved. Seed: 
fingle, ovate, large.— EJfential Char abler. Style one ; ftig- 
ma fimple ; capfule, two-valved, one-celled, one-feeded. 
Species, r. Connarus monocarpos, or Ceylon fumach. 
It rifes with a woody italic eight or ten feet high, hard, 
rigid, covered with a blackiih bark, dividing at the top 
into two or three branches ; leaves alternate, trifoliate, 
on long petioles ; leaflets ovate, fmooth, entire, thick, 
each on fliort petiolules, and remaining green the whole 
year; flowers in large upright racemes at the ends of the 
branches ; they are fmall, hairy, of a greeniih yellow co¬ 
lour, and rarely produce feeds in Europe. Native of the 
ifland of Ceylon. 
2. Connarus Africanus: leaves ternate, lanceolate- 
elliptic, veins protuberant underneath. Native of the 
mountains of Sierra Leone. 
3. Connarus fantaloides : leaves pinnate, leaflets ovate- 
acuminate, peduncles axillary aggregate, flowers racemed. 
Native of tire Eaft Indies. 
4. Connarus mimufoidcs: leaves pinnate, with about 
ten pairs of oval-oblong emarginate leaflets, racemes ax¬ 
illary. Native of the iflands of Nicobar. 
Propagation and Culture. This plant is ufually propa¬ 
gated in the gardens by laying down the young branches, 
which, if tongued, (in the manner praCtifed for carnal 
tions,) and duly watered, will put out roots in twelve 
months, when they may be cut off from the old plants, 
and each planted in a feparate fmall pot, filled with frefh 
light earth, plunging them into a moderate hot-bed, to 
forward their taking new root, obferving to (hade them 
from die fun every day, and to water them as they may 
require it; after this the plants lhould be treated in the 
fame way as other exotic plants w hich are not too ten¬ 
der, placing them in a dry ftove in winter, and for about 
three months in the fummer they may be removed into 
the open air, in a warm (heltered fituation. 
CONNA'SCENCE, \_con and nafcor, Lat.] Common 
birth'; production at the lame time; community of birth. 
Being produced together with another being.—Chriftians 
have baptized thebe geminous births and double connafcen- 
t.ir.i, as containing in them a diftinCtion of foul. Brown .—. 
The a£t of linking or growing together : improperly.— 
Symphalis denotes a connajcencc, or growing together. 
IViJbnan. 
CONNA'TE, adj. [from con and natus, Lat. ] Born with 
another; being of the fame birth.—-Many, who deny all 
.connate notions in the fpeculutive intellect, do yet admit 
them in this. South. 
CON'NATE LEAF, in botany, is when two oppofite 
leaves are fo united at their babes as’to have the appear¬ 
ance of one leaf: as in the garden honeyfuckle. * This 
term is applied alfo to filaments and anthers, united into 
one body ; as in the dalles monadelphia and fyngenefia. 
CONNA'TURA L, adj. \_cdn and natural. ] United with 
the being; connected by nature: 
Firft, in man’s mind we find an appetite 
To learn and know the truth of every thing; 
Which is connatural , and born with it. Davies. 
Participation of the fame nature : 
Is there no way, befides 
Thefe painful palfages, how we may come 
’.fo death, and mix with our connatural duff. Milton. 
CONNATURA'LITYj f. Participation of the fame 
CON 
nature; natural infeparability.—There Is a comaturaliy 
and congruity between that knowledge and thole habits, 
and that future eftate of the foul. Hale. 
CONNA'TURALLY, adv. In coexiftence with na¬ 
ture ; originally.—Some common notions feem connatu- 
rally engraven in the foul, antecedently to difcuflive ra¬ 
tiocination. Hale. 
CONNA'TUR ALNESS, f. Participation of the fame 
nature ; natural union.—Such is the connaturalnefs of our 
corruptions, except we looked for an account hereafter. 
Pcarfon. 
CON'N AUGHT, one of the four provinces of Ireland, 
bounded on tire north by the Atlantic ocean; on the eaft 
by the counties of Fermanagh, Cavan, Longford, Well- 
meath, and King’s county; on the fouth by the county 
of Clare and the lea ; on the weft by the fea. It contains 
five counties, viz. Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Rofcommon, 
and Sligo, which include 29(1 parifhes, 4108 fquare miles, 
and 95,821 houfes ; one archbiflropric, and five bilhoprics. 
It was formerly a kingdom of itfelf, till the reign of 
Henry II. and feveral times after attempted to throw off 
the dominion of their conquerors. 
CONNAU'X, a town of France, in the department of 
the Gard, and chief place of a canton, in the diftritb of 
Uzes ; three leagues north-eaft of Uzes. 
To CONNE'CT, v. a. \_conneBo, Lat.] To join ; to 
link ; to unite ; to conjoin ; to fallen together.—The 
corpufcles that conftitute the quicklilver will be fo con~ 
?ictfid to one another, that, inftead of a fluid body, they 
will appear in the form of a red powder. Boyle. —lo 
unite by intervention, as a cement.—-The natural order of 
the connecting ideas muff direct the fyllogifms ; and a man 
muff fee the connection of each intermediate idea with 
tliofe that it conneBs, before he can ufe it in a fyllogifm. 
Locke.' —To join in a juft feries of thought, or regular 
conftruCtion of language : as, the author connects his mi¬ 
ld ns well. 
To CONNE'CT, v.n. To cohere; to have juft rela¬ 
tion to things precedent and fubfequent. This is feldom 
ufed but in converfation. 
CONNEC'TICUT, one of the united Hates of North. 
America, called by the ancient natives, Qunni/iticut, litu- 
ated between 41. and 42. 2. N. lat. and between 71. 20. 
and 73. 15.W. Ion. Its greateft breadth is feventy-two 
miles, its length one hundred miles ; bounded on the 
north by Malfachufetts; on the eaft by Rhode ifland; 
on the loiith by the found' which divides it from Long 
ifland ; and on the weft by the Hate of New York.. This 
Hate contains about 4674 fquare miles; equal to about 
2,640,000 acres. It is divided into eight counties, viz. 
Fairfield, New-Haven, Middlefex, and New-London, 
which extend along the found from weft to eaft; Litch¬ 
field, Hartford, Tolland, and Windham, extend in the 
fame direction on the border of the Hate of Maflachufetts. 
The counties are divided and fubdivided into townfhips 
andp.rilhes ; in each of which is one or more places of pub¬ 
lic worlhip, and fchool-houfes at convenient diftances. 
The number of townfhips is about one hundred. Each 
townfhip is a corporation inverted with powers fufficient 
for their own internal regulation. The number of re- 
preferitatives is about one hundred and fixty. The prin¬ 
cipal rivers in this Hate are, Connecticut, Houfatonick, 
the Thames, and their branches, which, with fuch others 
as are worthy of notice, are defcribed under their re- 
fpeGive names. The whole of the fea-coaft is indented 
with harbours, many of which are fafe and commodious ; 
thofe of New-London and New-Haven are the moft im¬ 
portant. This ftate fends feven reprefentatives to the 
Congrefs. 
Connecticut, though fubjeCt to the extremes of heat 
and cold, in their leafons, and to frequent hidden 
changes, is very healthft.il. It is generally broken land, 
made up of mountains, hills and vallies ; and is exceed¬ 
ingly well watered. Some fmall parts of it are thin and 
barren. Its principal productions are Indian corn, rye, 
wheat 
