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fpherical, bipartite. Seeds: two, hemifpheric, concave. 
1-EJcntial Char after. Corolla, rayed ; petals inftex-emar- 
ginate ; univerfal involucre one-leafed ; partial, halved; 
fruit fpherical. 
Species, i. Coriandrum fativum, common or great co¬ 
riander : fruits globular. Root annual, fmall; Item a 
foot or afoot and half in height, fmooth, branched; 
it flowers in June and July, in corn fields, by road fides, 
and on dung-hills ; the feeds ripen in July and Auguft. 
The leaves have a ftrong difagreable feent. The feeds 
are grateful to the tafte, and, incrufted with fugar, are 
fold by the confectioners. The Edinburgh college ufe 
them as correctors in the bitter infuflon and the prepa¬ 
rations of fenna, nothing fo effectually covering the dif- 
agreeable tafte of that medicine. Native of the fouth 
of Europe, China, and Cochinchina. This plant, 
though found wild in Effex, where it has been long, cul¬ 
tivated, about Ipfwich, and in a few other places, is not 
a native of this country. 
2. Coriandrum tefticulatum, fmall or twin-fruited co¬ 
riander : fruits twin. The feent of this is much ftronger 
than that of the common fort. According to Loureiro, 
the Item is almofl upright, round, pale, ten inches high, 
with many weak diffufed branches. It is perhaps a 
plant "of a different genus, fince the univerfal involucre 
is one-leafed ; partial none ; corolla univerfal uniform ; 
fruit twin. Native of the fouth of Europe, China, and 
Cochinchina. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe plants are propagated 
by fowing their feeds in the autumn, in an open fituation, 
on a bed of good frefh earth ; when the plants are come 
up, they fhould be hoed out to about four inches dif- 
tance every way, clearing them from weeds ; by which 
management thefe plants will grow ftrong, and produce 
a great quantity of good feeds. The firft fort was for¬ 
merly cultivated in the gardens as a falad herb, and in 
the Eaft Indies is ftill much cultivated ; for the plant is 
of great ufe in moft of their compound difhes, as a culi¬ 
nary herb, and the feeds are alfo much eiteemed for the 
Eke purpofes; but in Europe neither of them are now 
much ufed. The fecond fort will rile eafily from feeds, 
fown in the autumn ; but tliofe which are l'own in the 
fpring rarely fucceed, or at lead cio not come up till the 
following fpring. For the field culture of Coriander, 
fee Carum or Caraway, vol. iii. p. 860. The produce 
of coriander is from ten to fourteen hundred weight on 
an acre, and the price varies from fixteen lhillings to for- 
ty-two fhillings; a common price is twenty-four fhillings 
for a hundred weight. If great care be not ufed, the 
larged and bed part of the feed will be loft. To prevent 
this, women and children are employed to cut it, plant 
by plant, and to put it immediately into cloths, in which 
it is carried to fome convenient part of the field, and 
there threfhed upon a fail-cloth. A few drokes of the 
flail get the feeds clean out, and the thfelhers are ready 
for another bundle in a few minutes. There is a ready 
fate for coriander feed with the didillers, druggifts, 
and confectioners. The former purchafe very large 
quantities. 
CORIA'RIA,/! [has its name from its ufe in tanning 
hides.] In botany, a genus of the clafs dioecia, order 
decandria. The generic characters are—Mate. Calyx: 
perianthium five-leaved, very fhort; leaflets fubovate, 
concave. Corolla: petals five, very like the calyx, con¬ 
nected. Stamina : filaments ten, length of the corolla ; 
anthers oblong, twO-parted. Female. Calyx: perian¬ 
thium five-leaved, very fnort; leaflets fubovate, concave. 
Corolla: petals five, cafpidate, calyciform, converging. 
Stamina : filaments ten,-(five within the calyx, five with¬ 
in the petals,) very fhort ; anthers barren. Pidillum : 
germs five, compreffed, inwardly conjoined ; flyles as 
many, bridle-form, long; ftigmas Ample. Pericarpium: 
none; five fleftiy, ovate-lanceolate, three-fided petals, 
with one of tire angles looking inwards, covering the 
feeds. Seeds: five, kidney-form, Plermaplirodite flowers 
Yol. V, No. 265, 
have been feen by others.— EJfential Character. Calyx five- 
leaved ; corolla five-petalled, very like the calyx. Mate : 
anthene two-parted. Female: flyles five; feeds five, 
covered with fucculent-berried petals. 
Species. 1. Coriariamyrtifolia, or myrtle-leaved fumach: 
leaves ovate-oblong. This flirub feldom grows more than 
three or four feet high. It creeps at the root, and fends 
forth many fteius. In the mate plant, the flower-buds are 
often in pairs from the fear of the fallen leaves. Flowers 
feparated by flefliy concave fcales. Hermaphrodite buds 
alfo.folitary or in pairs, above the former, in feveral pairs. 
This plant, according to Gouan, is polygamous, having 
liermaphrodite and mate flowers in the firft, female and 
male in the fecond, deferibed above ; hermaphrodite and 
mate on a third. Medicus deferibes a plant with herma¬ 
phrodite flowers only. It is a native not only of the 
fouth of France, but alfo of Spain, and the county of 
Nice. Cultivated in 1629, by Parkinfon. It flowers from 
May to Auguft. The plant with mate flowers only was 
common in England, till that which bears hermaphrodite 
flowers was railed in the Chelfea garden from feeds lent 
out of Italy, which produced great quantities of feeds 
that vegetated. It is conliderably aftringent, and is ufed 
not only in tanning leather, but in dying black colours. 
This fhrub fending up many Items forms a thicket, and 
therefore is ufeful to fill up vacancies in plantations of 
fhrubs; but it is improper for fmall gardens, becaufe it 
takes up too much room, and there is no great beauty in 
the flowers. 
2. Coriaria rufeifolia: leaves cordate-ovate, feflile; 
flowers hermaphrodite. Native of Chili. 
3. Coriaria larmentofa: procumbent diffufed ; leaves 
cordate-ovate, acuminate, quite entire, five-nerved, fub- 
petiolate ; racemes axillary, elongated, nodding. Native 
of New Zealand. 
Propagation and Culture. It may be propagated plenti¬ 
fully from the -fuckers, which are produced from the 
creeping roots in great abundance ; thefe fhould be taken 
off in March., and planted into a nurfery to form good 
roots, where they may continue one or two years, and 
then muft be removed to the places where they are to 
remain. It delights in a loamy foil, not too ft iff, and 
fhould be placed where it may have fhelter from the 
north and eaft winds ; where it will endure the cold of 
our ordinary winters very well, and will flower better 
than if it is preferved in pots and flickered in the winter. 
CORIDER'VA, a rock, fituated about two miles and 
a half fouth-weft from Ila, one of the weftern iflands of 
Scotland. 
CO'RIDIS FO'LIA,/] in botany. See Linconia. 
CORIDO'R, or Corridor, f in fortification, is the 
covert-way lying round about the whole compafs of the 
works of a place, between the outfide of the moat and the 
pallifadoes, being about twenty yards broad. It is alfo 
ufed, in architecture, for a gallery, or long aide, around 
a building, leading to feveral chambers at a diftance from 
each other, fometimes wholly inclofed, and fometimes 
open on one fide. 
CORIEN'TES, a fmall city within the government of 
Buenos Ayres, in South America, built by the Spaniards 
on the confluence of the Parana and Paraguay : eighty 
leagues higher than Santa Fe, on the Rio de Plata. 
CORIN'DUM,/: in botany. See Cardiospf.rmum, 
CORIN'NA, a Grecian lady, celebrated for her beauty 
and poetic talents, born at Theffu, a city in Bceotia, and 
aifciple of Myrtis, another Grecian lady. Her verfes 
were fo efteemed by the Greeks, that they gave her the 
name of the Lyric Mufe. She lived in the time of Pin_- 
dar, about 495 years before Chrift, and is faid to have 
gained the prize of lyric poetry five times from that poet ; 
but Paufanias obferves, that her beauty made the judges 
partial. Corinna wrote a great deal of poetry; but no 
more have come down to us, than fome fragments which 
may be feen in Fabricius’s Bibliotheca Graeca. 
CORIN'NUSj an ancient poet in the time of the Tro- 
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