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tofe leaves. It Rowers in September end October; na¬ 
tive of the Weft Indies and Japan. 
7. Corchorus Japonicus, or Japan corchorus : cap Tales 
round, fmooth ; leaves doubly ferrate. Stem fhrubby, 
two feet high and more, fmooth. Native of Japan, where 
it is cultivated tor the elegance of its flowers, which ap¬ 
pear in February and the following months. 
8. Corchorns hirtus, or rough corchorns: capfules 
oblong; they and the item hairy ; leaves oblong, equally 
ferrate. Root annual; Item upright, round, branched, 
efpeciafiy at the top, from two to three feet high; flowers 
without fcent, axillary, peduncled, folitary, or in pairs; 
feeds black, angular, fmall. Native of the Weft Indies. 
9. Corcliorus filiquofus, or germander-leaved corcho- 
rus : capfules linear, comprelfed, two-valved; leaves 
lanceolate, equally ferrate. It is an herbaceous plant, 
but branched like a ftirub, with a round fmooth ftem, 
and alternate upright pubefcent branches. It flowers 
from June to Auguft; in its own country almoft the 
whole year. Very common in aH the fugar-colonies, in 
dry fandy places, teldom riftng above two feet and a half. 
It is generally tiled for befoms by the negroes. 
Other fpecie^ from Miller. 10. Corchorns tetragonus, 
or four-cornered corchorus: leaves ovate-cordate, cre- 
nate; capfules four-cornered, reflected at the points. 
Height about two feet, dividing into fmall branches; 
flowers very fmall, pale yellow, fucceeded by fw el ling, 
rough, four-cornered, leed-veftels, about'an inch long, 
flatted at the top, where there are four reflex horns, giv-. 
ing them fome refemblance to the clove. Native of both 
Indies. 
11Corchorus linearis, or linear corchorus: leaves 
lanceolate, ferrate-toothed ; capfules linear, comprelled, 
two-valved. Height three feet, with feveral weak ftde- 
branches; leaves about three inches long, and one inch 
bi'oad in the middle, leflening gradually to both ends, 
fitting dole to the brandies ; the flowers come out (ingly 
cppofite to the leaves ; t hey are very fmall, of a pale yel¬ 
low, and are lucceeded by feed-vetlds near two inches 
long, flat, two-celled, with fmall angular feeds. Native 
of Carthagena, in New Spain. 
12. Corchorus bifurcatus, or bifurcated corchorus : 
leaves cordate, ferrate ; capfules linear, comprelled, hav¬ 
ing two horns at the points. This rifes with a ftrong 
herbaceous ftalk between three and four feet high, fend¬ 
ing cut feveral fide branches, which grow ered ; leaves 
on long ftender petioles ; and between them many fmaller 
leaves nearly of the fame form, fitting clofe to the 
branches ; the flowers come out from the fide of the 
branches, on ftiort peduncles, are very fmall, of a pale 
yellow, and are fucceeded by fiat feed-veflels near three 
inches long, ending in two horns; they are two-celled, 
and filled witlufmall angular feeds. Native of Jamaica, 
whence the feeds were lent by Dr. Houftoun. 
13. Corchorus fafcicularis, or bunched corchorus: 
capfules oblong, fubfefiile, hairy, mucronate, two or 
three together; leaves lanceolate-oblong, fmooth; fer- 
ratures equal. Native of the Eaft Indies. 
14. Corchorus fiexuofus, or bent corchorus: leaves 
doubly-ferrate, cufpidate; ftem flexuofe. 15. Corcho¬ 
rus ferratus, or ferrated corchorus: leaves oblong, fer¬ 
rate, cufpidate; branches fmooth. 16. Corchorus fcan- 
dens, or climbing corchorus : leaves ovate, fetaceous- 
ferrate, oppoiite ; ftem and branches flexuofe-fcandent. 
Thefe three are natives of Japan. 
Propagation and Culture. All thefe forts are too tender 
to thrive in England in the open air, therefore their feeds 
mult be fown on a hot-bed in the fpring; and, when the 
plants are come up fit to remove, they fhould be trans¬ 
planted on a frefli hot-bed to bring the plants forward, 
otherwise they will not ripen feeds. After the plants 
are rooted in the new hot-bed, they muft have free air 
admitted to them every day, in proportion to the warmth 
of the feafon, for they muft not be drawn up weak; when 
the plants have obtained ftrength, they fhould be tranf- 
planted each into a feparate pot, and plunged into a Hot¬ 
bed, cbferving to fhade them from the fun till they have 
taken root; then they muft have a large fliare of air 
every day, and fhould be frequently refreflied with wa¬ 
ter ; and in June they fhould be gradually inured to the 
open air, and part of them may be fliaken out of the pots, 
and planted in a warm border, where, if the feafon proves 
warm, they will flower and perfeff their feeds; but, as 
thefe will lometimes fail, it will be proper to put one or 
two. plants of each fort into pots, which fhould be placed 
in a glafs-cafe, where they may be fereened from bad 
weather ; and from thefe goad feeds may always be ob¬ 
tained. The fixth fort may alfo be treated in the fame 
manner during the fummer feafon ; but in autumn the 
plants muft be removed into the ftove, and plunged into 
the bark-bed: and thefe will flower early the fecond 
year, and ripen feeds. 
COR'CIA, a town of the ifland of Corfica : fourteen 
miles north-north-weft of Corte. 
CORCIEU'X, a town of France, in the department of 
Vofges, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt of 
Bruyeres: two leagues and a half louth-fouth-weft of 
St. Diey. 
COR'CUI.UM, J. [from cor, Lat. the heart.] In bo-' 
tany, the elfence of a feed, or rudiments of the future 
plant, attached to and contained within the lobe-feed, 
in the fliape of a little heart. See Botany, vol. iii. 
p. 250. 
CORCY'RA, in ancient geography, an ifland in the 
Ionian Sea, oppofite to Theiprotia, a diftridt of Epirus, 
called Sc/ieria, and Phccacia , by Homer. In Callimachus 
it is called Drepane, from the curvity of its figure. It 
was famous for the fiiipwreck of Ulyfi’es and the gardens 
oh Alcinous : now Corfu. 
CORCY'RA NI'GRA, an ifland in the Adriatic, on 
the coaft of Dalmatia, called Mclczna by the Greeks to 
diftinguifli it from the ifland in the Ionian Sea. The epi¬ 
thet Nigra was added, from its woods of tall trees with 
which it is almoft covered: now Curzola. 
CORCZY'EZ, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Volhynia: forty-fix miles north of Conftantinow. 
CORC'ZYN, or Kortschin, a town of Poland, in 
the palatinate of Sandomirz, on the Viftula: forty-eight 
miles weft-fouth-weft of Sandomirz. 
CORD, f. [cort, Welfh ; chorda', Lat. corde, Fr.] A 
rope ; a firing compofed of feveral ftrands or twifts. See 
Chord. —She let them down by a coid through the win¬ 
dow. JoJh. ii. 5. 
Form'd of the fineft complicated thread, 
Thefe nuni'rous curds are thro’ the body fpread. Blac/unore. 
The cords extended., in fetting up tents, furnifh feveral 
metaphors in feripture.—Thine eyes fha.ll fee Jerufaiem 
a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that fhall not be taken 
down ; none of the ftakes thereof fhall ever be removed, 
neither fhall any of the cords thereof be broken. Ifaiah, 
xxxiii. 20.—A quantity of wood for fuel, fuppofed to be 
meafured with a cord ; a pile eight feet long, four high, 
and four broad. 
CORD-MAKER,/. One whofe trade is to make ropes; 
a rope-maker. 
CORD-WOOD,/! Wood piled up for fuel, to be fold 
by the cord. 
'To CORD, v. a. To bind with ropes; to fallen with 
cords ; to clofe by a bandage. 
CORD'AGE,y. A quantity of cords; the ropes of a 
fhip.—Spain furnifhed a fort of rufli called fpartum, ufe- 
ful for cordage and other parts of (hipping. Arbutknot. 
The naval cordage of the earlier ages was only thongs 
of leather. Thefe primitive ropes were retained by the 
Caledonians in the third century. The nations to the 
north of the Baltic had them in the ninth or tenth cen¬ 
turies : and the inhabitants of the weftern ifles of-Scot¬ 
land 
