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imn army, whofe bufinefs was to aid and alTift the mili¬ 
tary tribune in quality cf a lieutenant. 
COR'Nl'CULATE, adj. [from cornu, Lat.] A term 
in botany.— Ccrniculatc plants are fuch as produce many 
diftindt and horned pods; and corniculatc flowers are Inch 
hollow flowers as have on their upper part a kind of 
fpur, or little horn. Chambers. 
CORNl'CULUM, anciently a town of the Sabines, in 
Latium, to the call of Crultumerium, towards the Anio. 
It was burnt down by Tarquin; but reftored again, after 
the expulfion of the kings. Now in ruins, called II 
Monte Genaro. Flams. 
CORNI'I IC, adj. [from cornu and facio, Lat.] Pro¬ 
ductive of horns; making horns. 
CORNIFI'CIUS, a poet and general in the age of 
Auguftus, employed to accufe Brutus. His filler Cor- 
nifitia, was alio blcfled with a poetical genius. Plutarch. 
CORNl'GEROUS, adj. [from corniger, Lat.] Horned; 
having horns.—Nature, in other cornigerous animals, 
hath placed the horns higher, and reclining ; as in 
bucks. Brown. 
CORNIGLA'NO, a town of Italy, in the principality 
of Piedmont : five miles wefi-north-wefl of Alba. 
CORNIGLI'ANO, a town of Italy, in the Milanefe: 
fifteen miles eaft of Milan. 
CORNIL'LIA, a town of Italy, in the Hate of Genoa : 
four miles and a half fouth-weft of Spezza. 
CORNII.'LON, a town of France, in the department 
of the Gard, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict 
of Pont St. Efprit: feven miles fouth-weft of Pont St. 
Efprit. 
CORNIMO'NT, a town of France, in the department 
of the Volges, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt 
of Remiremont: three leagues and a quarter eaft of Re- 
miremont. 
COR'NISH, a townfhip of the American States, in 
Chelhire county, New Hampfhire, on the eaft bank of 
Connecticut river. Between Claremont and Plainfield, 
about fifteen miles north of Charleftown, and fixteen 
fouth of Dartmouth college. It was incorporated in 
2763. In 1790, it contained 982 inhabitants. 
COR'NISH DIAMOND, f. A name given to the 
cry flats found in digging the mines of tin in Cornwall. 
CORNI'TO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Principato Citra: feven miles fouth- 
fouth-weft of Cangiano. 
COR'NOGAL, a town of the ifland of Ceylon: thirty 
miles north-north-weft of Candi. 
CORNOUAIL'LES, before the revolution, a country 
cf France, in Bretagne. 
COR'NU AMMO'NIS,y. [np reey ammon cam, Arab.] 
Ammon’s or Jupiter’s horn, a foflil fliell found in the 
Ihape of a ram’s horn; fo called becaufe Jupiter was 
worfhipped under the Ihape of a ram. It is vulgarly 
called jfnake-Jlone, or ferpent-Jlonc, from its convoluted figure. 
See Concholocy, p. 22, and 30, of this volume. 
CORNUCO'PIA,/! [Lat.] in fabulous hiftory, a horn 
out of which proceeded plenty of all things, by a parti¬ 
cular privilege which Jupiter granted his nurfe, fup- 
pofed to be the goat Amalthea. The fable is thus inter¬ 
preted : That in I.ybia there is a little territory fhaped 
like a bullock’s horn, exceedingly fertile, given by king 
Ammon to his daughter Amalthea, whom the poets 
feign to have been Jupiter’s nurfe. In architecture, and 
fculpture, the cornucopia, or horn of plenty, is repre- 
fented under the figure of a.horn, topped with fruits, 
flowers, &c. On medals, F. Joubert obferves, the cor¬ 
nucopia is given to all deities. 
CORNUCO'PIAs, f. [fo named from the manner in 
which the flowers grow within their involucre, like a 
cornucopia, or horn of plenty.] In botany, a genus of the 
clafs triandria, order digynia, natural order' of gramina 
or gralfes. The generic charadters are—Calyx : peri- 
anthium common one-leafed, funnel-form, very large; 
mouth crenated, obtufe, from fpreading upright, many- 
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flowered ; glume one-flowered, two-valved * valves ob¬ 
long, obtufely acuminate, equal. Corolla: onc-valved ; 
in figure, fize, and fituation, very much refembling the 
valves of the glume of the calyx. Stamina: filaments 
three, capillary ; antherse oblong. Piftillum: germ tur¬ 
binate; ftyles two, capillary ; fligmas cirrhofe. Pericar- 
pium : none ; Corolla including the feed. Seed: Angle, 
turbinate, on one fide convex, on the other fide flat. 
Rather too nearly allied to alopecurus.— EJfential Cha- 
raEler. Involucre one-leafed, funnel-form, crenate, many- 
flowered; calyx two-valved ; corolla one-valved. 
Species. 1. Cornucopia cucullatum, or hooded cornu¬ 
copia: fpike beardlefs, with a crenate hood, or invo¬ 
lucre. Root annual, fibrous, branched ; flowers feveral, 
arifing from the fheaths of the upper leaves in a little 
head or fpike, projecting fomewhat beyond the invo¬ 
lucre, green, often tipped with purple; feed fmall. Of 
all gralfes this is perhaps the moll lingular, as well as 
the mod uncommon. Native of the vales about Smyrna, 
whence it was lent to England by Sherard, w'hen he was 
conful at Smyrna ; and afterwards to Linnteus, by Haffel- 
quilt. Introduced at Kew in 1788, by John Sibthorp, M. D. 
but has conftantly been cultivated in the Chelfea garden 
fince the time of Rand. 
2. Cornucopias alopecuroides, or ftiaggy cornucopia : 
fpike bearded within a hemifpheric hood, or involucre. 
This very much refembles our common fox-tail grafs, 
alopecurus pratenfis. The Angular mark of this fpecies 
is a hood in form of a pitcher, quite entire, of the fame 
confidence with the leaf, furrounding the bale of the 
fpike like a common calyx. Obferved in Italy, by Ar- 
duini. See Valeriana. 
COR'NUS, a town of the ifland of Sardinia : eighteen 
miles fouth-eaft of Bofa. 
COR'NUS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lot: ten miles eaft of Cahors. 
COR'NUS, a town of France, in the department cf 
the Aveiron, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict 
of St. Afrique : fourteen miles eaft of St. Afrique. 
COR'NUS, J. [from cornu, Lat. a horn ; on account 
of the horny hardnefs of the fruit.] In botany, a genus 
of the clafs tetrandria, order monogynia, natural order of 
ftellatas. The generic characters are—Calyx : involucre 
generally four-leaved, many-flowered ; leaflets ovate, the 
oppofite ones fmaller, coloured, deciduous ; perianthium 
very fmall, four-toothed, fuperior, deciduous. Corolla: 
petals four, oblong, acute, fiat, fmaller than the invo¬ 
lucre. Stamina : filaments four, fubulate, ereCt, longer 
than the corolla; antheras roundifli, incumbent. Pifi- 
tillum : germ roundifli, inferior; ftyle filiform, length 
of the corolla; ltigma obtufe. Pericarpium: drupe 
roundifli, umbilicated. Seed : nut heart-lhaped, or ob¬ 
long, two-celled.— EJfential Character. Involucre gene¬ 
rally four-leaved ; petals four, fuperior ; drupe with a 
two-celled nut. 
Moll of the fpecies of cornus are ftirubs, fome of which 
become fmall trees; few are herbaceous. In the latter, 
the uppermofl leaves are in whorls ; in the former, they 
are oppofite, except in the feventh, which has them al¬ 
ternate. The flowers are involucred or not, in umbels 
or cymes ; hence M. l’Heritier has made two divifions of 
this genus : the firft comprehending the involucred um'oelltd 
fpecies —1. Florida. 2. Mafcula. 8. Suecica. 9. Cana- 
denlis : the fecond, thofe which have naked cymes-, that 
is, all the reft. The cymes are either deprefled or elon¬ 
gated into a fort of thyrfe. The flowers are white, with 
fome fweetnefs. The fruit is red in cornus fuecica, Ca- 
nadenfis, florida, and mafcula; white in cornus panicu- 
lata and alba ; blue in cornus fericea, circinata, and 
ftriita ; blackifli purple or brown in cornus fanguinea 
and alternifolia. The wood lias a particular fmell, and 
in molt of the fpecies is hard and tough, particularly in 
the fecond, of which the modern Indians make their ar¬ 
rows, as the ancients did their fpears. 
Species, 1., Cornus florida, or great-flowered dogwood ; 
arboreouss 
