n variety of that. Native of Canada, Labrador, and New¬ 
foundland; flowers in Auguft. 
io. Cornus circinata, or round-leaved dogwood : 
branches warted ; leaves orbiculate, tomentofe, and 
hoary underneath ; cymes deprefled. This flirub is the 
height of a man : Item upright, branched, grey ; branches 
oppofite, fomewhat fpreading, round, very thick, green, 
with browniih warts; twigs like the branches, with rings 
at the joints, flightly tinged with purple ; flowers pedi- 
celled, upright, white, five lines wide ; fruit a berry-form 
drupe, hollowed at the bafe, retaining the ftyle, foft, 
pale blue turning whitifh, three lines in diameter ; nut 
roundifh, flatted, nerved,, a line and a half in diameter. 
It is diftinguifhed by its orbicular, wrinkled, very green, 
leaves, and its very thick tubercled branches. It flowers 
in the fummer, frequently twice, but very rarely ripens 
a few of the fruit in autumn. It is a native of Pennfyl- 
vania, and has been long cultivated, but not commonly, 
in France. 
it. Cornus ftritta, or upright dogwood: branches 
firict; leaves ovate, concolor, almoft naked ; cymes pani- 
cled. This grows to the height of two fathoms. Stems 
feveral, upright, brownirti. It has the habit of cornus 
fanguinea and fericea, but recedes far from them, in 
having the flowers in panicles: thefe are fmaller than in 
cornus' paniculata, and the antherse are blue. It was 
introduced long fjnee from North America, but is yet 
fcarce. The fruit appears too late to ripen here. Tlie 
leaves continue green till froft comes on. 
12. Cornus paniculata, or New Holland dogwood : 
branches ereft; leaves ovate, hoary underneath ; cymes 
panicled. This flirub is the height of a man. It is dif- 
tindl from all tlie other forts, in having the cymes elon¬ 
gated into a tliyrfe or panicle. It is handfome, and very 
full of flowers, which come out in the fpring, or early 
in the fummer ; in autumn it is loaded with fruit during 
feveral months. Native of North America. Thefe Ame¬ 
rican forts are equally hardy >vith our common dogwood, 
grow as tall, and make a much better appearance. 
Propagation and Culture. All the forts of dogwood may 
be propagated by their feeds, which, if fown in autumn 
ibon after they are ripe, will mod of them come up the 
following fpring; but, if tlie feeds are not fown in au- 
tupin, they will lie a-year in the ground before the plants 
will appear, and, when the year proves dry, will fome- 
times remain two years in tlie ground ; therefore the place 
fliould not be difhirbed, where thefe feeds are fown, un¬ 
der two years, if the plants fliould not come up fooner. 
When the plants are come up, they fliould be duly wa¬ 
tered in dry weather, and kept clean from weeds ; and 
the autumn following they may be removed, and planted 
in beds in the nurfery, where they may remain two years, 
by which time they will be fit to tranfplant where they 
are to remain. The belt feafon for this is the autumn. 
They are alio propagated by fuckers, and laying down 
tlie branches. -Mod: of the forts produce plenty of fuck¬ 
ers, efpeeially when they are planted on a moift light 
foil, which may be taken off from the old plants in au¬ 
tumn, and planted into a nurfery for a year or two, and 
then may be transplanted into the places where they are 
to remain ; but thole plants which are propagated by 
fuckers rarely have fo good roots as thofe which are pro¬ 
pagated by layers ; and being much more inclinable to 
fiioot out fuckers, they are not near fo valuable as plants 
railed from layers. Some of the fcarcer lorts from Ame¬ 
rica are fometjmes engrafted into the fourth or fifth. 
I he eighth fort is very difficult to preferve in gardens; 
tlie only method is, to remove the plants from the places 
of their natural growth, with good balls of earth to their 
roots, and plant them in a moift fliady fituation, where 
they are not annoyed by the roots of other plants. In 
fiuh a fituation they may be preferved two or three years, 
but it rarely happens that they will continue much longer. 
See Amyris, Laurus, and Memecylon. 
V OL. V. No. z66 , 
To CORNU'TE, v. a. [cornutus, Lat.] To beftow 
horns; to cuckold. 
CORNU'TED, adj. [cornutus, Lat.] Grafted with 
horns ; homed ; cuckolded. 
CORNU'TIA, f. [fo called by Plunder from Jacob 
Cornutus, a phyfician of Paris, who publifhed a hiftory of 
Canadian plants, 1635.] In botany, a genus of tlie clafs 
didynamia, order gymnofpermia, natural order of peri'o- 
natae. The generic characters are—Calyx : perianthium 
one-leafed, roundifh, very fmall, tubular, five-toothed, 
permanent. Corolla: one-petalled, ringent; tube cy- 
lindric, much longer than the calyx ; border four-cleft, 
upper diyifibns eredl, roundifh ; lateral ones diftant, lower' 
roundifh, entire. Stamina: filaments four, of which two 
projebt beyond the tube of tlie corolla ; antherar fimple, 
inclining. Piftillum : germ roundifh; ftyle very long, 
two-parted; ftigmas thickifh. Pericarpium: berry glo- 
bof'e, at the bafe comprehended by the calyx. Seed: 
fingle, kidney-form.— EJJbitial Charac.hr. Calyx, five¬ 
toothed ; ftamina, longer than the corolla ; ftyle, very 
long ; berry, one-feeded. 
Species. 1. Cornutia pyramidata, or hoary-leaved ccr- 
nutia.: leaves oppofite, ovate; flowers in terminating 
corymbs. This fpecies grows to the height of ten or 
twelve feet. The branches are four-cornered, and grow 
draggling; flowers in corymbs at the ends of the branches; 
they are of a fine blue colour, ufually appear in autumn, 
and fometimes remain in beauty two months and more. 
This plant was firft difeovered by Plunder in America. 
It is found in plenty in feveral of tlie iflands in the Weft 
Indies, as alfo at Campeachy, and Vera Cruz, from both 
of which places feeds were lent to Mr. Miller, firft by 
Dr. Houftoun, and afterwards by Mr. Robert Millar. 
2. Cornutia quinata, or five-cornered cornutia: leaves 
quinate, lanceolate-ovate ; flowers in racemes. This is 
a middle-fized tree, with fpreading round branches; flow¬ 
ers greenifh yellow. Native of China, in the woods near 
Canton. 
Propagation and Culture. Cornutia is propagated by 
feeds, which fliould be fown early in tlie fpring on a hot¬ 
bed ; and when the plants are come up, they fliould be 
transplanted each into a feparate halfpenny pot, filled 
with light frefli earth, and plunged into a hot-bed of 
tanners’ bark, observing to fliade them until they have 
taken root; after which they fliould have frefli air let in¬ 
to the bed, in proportion to the warmth of tlie feafon, 
and fliould be frequently watered, for it naturally grows 
on fvvampy foils. When the plants have filled thefe pots 
with their roots, they fliould be fliifted into others of a 
larger fize, and plunged into a hot-bed again, where they 
fliould be continued till October, when they mull be 
removed into the bark-ftove, and plunged into the tan, 
for otherwife it will be very difficult to preferve them 
through the winter. The ftove in which thefe plants are 
placed fliould be kept to the temperate heat marked on 
Mr. Fowler’s thermometers, which will agree better with 
them than a hotter ftove. The third year from feeds 
thefe plants will flower, when they make a fine appear¬ 
ance in the ftove, but they never perfect their feeds in 
England. They may alfo be propagated by cuttings, 
which, if planted into pots filled with earth, and plunged 
into a bark-bed, obfervingto (bade and water them, will 
take root, and muff be afterwards treated as the fcedling 
plants. See Premna. 
CORNU'TO, f. [from cornutus, Lat.] A man horned; 
a cuckold.—The peaking cornuto, her hufband, dwelling 
in a continual larum of jealoufy. Shakefpeare. 
CORNU'TUS, a ftoic philofopher, of Africa, precep. 
tor to Perfius the fatyrili. He wrote fome treatifes on 
philofophy and rhetoric. Perfeus. —A Roman, faved from 
the prolcription of Marius, by his fervants, who hung 
up a dead man in his room, and faid it was their matter. 
Plutarch. 
CQRN'WALL, [Connpealh. Sax. from the Latin, 
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