COTYLEDON. 
she circumftances of the flowers being upright, and the 
bradtes toothed in the firft ; whereas in the fecond, the 
flowers hang down, and the bra dies are entire. Morifon 
remarks, alfo, that the root of the yellow navel-wort is 
not round like a turnip, but oblong and creeping; the 
leaves larger and growing more clofe, not fo perfectly 
peltate, but more open about the infertion of the petiole. 
Mr. Woodward obferves, that the flowers are not al¬ 
ways pendant in the Imaller fpecimens of common na- 
vel-wc-rt. 
Yellow navel-wort is found in Somerfetfliire, and in 
well-riding of Yorkfliire. 
/?. Root tuberous, roundifh : the wdiole plant is fuccu- 
lent, and lias a Alining frofled appearance ; ftem nearly 
upright, lliglitly angular, from fix to nine inches high, 
frequently purple ; leaves thick, flefliy, circular, con¬ 
cave on the upper furface, with a hollow dimple nearly 
in the center, juft oppolite to the infertion of the petiole, 
which is round. From this appearance this plant has 
the name of navel-wort ; flowers in long terminating 
bunches, of a white greenifh hue. Native of Judea, 
Spain, Portugal, Italy, Britain; on moift rocks and walls. 
With us in an old gravel-pit at Hig'hbury-barn, near 
London ; at Peterborough, Northampton ; and Thorpe, 
between Peterborough and Wandesford ; Slate-pit rocks 
at Smithland in Leicefterfhire ; Church Brampton in 
Northamptonfliire ; about Troutbeck in Weftmoreland ; 
in Cornwall and other parts of the weft ; Godftow-bridge 
in Oxfordfliire ; about Malvern in Worceftcrfliire ; Shep- 
ton-Mullet in Somerfetfliire ; Caernarvonfhire and Me- 
rionethfliire in Wales; in fome of the Scotch iflands, 
as Arran, Y-columbkil, &c. It flowers from June to 
Aug uft. 
7. Cotyledon Hifpanica, or Spanifti navel-wort: leaves 
o’long, almoft columnar; flowers fafcicled. Stem ftm- 
ple, columnar, almoft eredt, a finger’s length in height; 
leaves bluntifh, fellile, fomewhat hairy, flattifli above, 
dotted with dufky red. The general appearance is that 
of fedum album. Native of Africa, the Levant, and 
Spain; biennial. 
8. Cotyledon papillaris, or papillary navel-wort: leaves 
oppolite, columnar-ovate ; flowers corymbed. 9. Coty¬ 
ledon mamillaris, or mamillary navel-wort: leaves alter¬ 
nate, columnar-ovate, flowers alternate, fubfefiile. 10. 
Cotyledon triflora, or three-flowered navel-wort: leaves 
ovate, entire ; flowers fubpeduncled, in threes. 11. Co¬ 
tyledon cacalioides, or chervil navel-wort: leaves colum¬ 
nar; flowers corymbed ; ftem flirubby. 12. Cotyledon re¬ 
ticulata, or netted navel-wort: leaves columnar ; flowers 
net-corymbed ; ftem Ihrubby. 13. Cotyledon paniculata, 
or panicled navel-wort : leaves oblong-ovate, leflile ; pa¬ 
nicle divaricated, racemed ; ftem fhrubby. Found at the 
Cape of Good Hope by Thunberg. The util has its 
trivial name from its yellow flowers refembling thofe of 
cacalia; as the 12th alfo has from its refemblance to fta- 
tice reticulata. 
14. Cotyledon laciniata, or cut-leaved navel-wort : 
leaves pinnatifid ; flowers four-cleft, in a panicle. Stem 
leafy to the top. According to Miller, the ftem is up¬ 
right, about a foot high, jointed, and fucculent; leaves 
broad; flowers deep yellow. Native of Egypt and the 
Ealt Indies ; flowers in July and Auguft. 
15. Cotyledon nudicaulis, or bare-ftalked navel-wort: 
leaves fpatulate-ovate ; flowers four-cleft, in a cyme. 
Stem at the end almoft naked. 
16. Cotyledon fafcicularis, c-r cl.ufter-leaved navel- 
wort : leaves wedge-fhaped, fafcicled, terminating; trunk 
thickened.; branches flefliy, fubconic. This has been 
confounded with the fecond fort, and fliould be placed 
next to it: it flowers from July to September. 
17. Cotyledon vifeofa, or vifeous navel-wort: leaves 
columnar; racemes terminating, villofe-vifcid; ftem 
branched. This has the appearance of a fedum ; root an¬ 
nual; ftem filiform, brachiate, a palm in height. Native 
of the mountains of Spain near Toledo, and elfcwhere. 
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18. Cotyledon lanceolata, or lance-leaved navel-wort: 
leaves lanceolate, ferrate at the tip, panicle villofe ; 
flowers quadrifid. This refembles cotyledon laciniata in 
habit, inflorefcence, and ovate yellow corollas, but dif¬ 
fers in having lanceolate leaves; and the ftem, pedun¬ 
cles, calyx, and corolla, villofe. 
19. Cotyledon alternans, or alternated navel-wort : 
leaves orbiculate-fpatulate, quite entire; flowers pani¬ 
cled, fmooth, quadrifid. The whole of this plant is 
fmooth. 
Propagation and Culture. The African kinds are all 
propagated by planting cuttings in any of the fummer 
months, which fliould be laid in a dry place for a fort¬ 
night or three weeks after they are taken from the plant, 
before they are planted ; for tliefe abound with juice 
through every part of the plant, which will certainly 
rot the cuttings; if they are not fullered toji.e out of 
the ground, that the wounded part may heal over, and 
the great redundancy of fap evaporate. The foil in 
which thefe plants thrive bell, is one third frefli light 
earth from a pafture, one third fand, and the other third 
part lime-mbbifh and rotten tan in equal quantities ; 
thefe fiiould be well mixed, and laid in a heap fix or 
eight months before it is ufed, turning it over five or 
fix times, that the parts may the better incorporate ; 
and before it is ufed, it will be proper to pafs it through 
a lereen, to feparate the large ftones, clods, &c. Having 
prepared the earth, and your cuttings being in a fit 
order for planting, you mu ft fill as many halfpenny pots 
with earth as you have cuttings to plant; then put one 
cutting in the middle of each pot about two or three 
inches deep or more, acco:ding to their ftrength; then 
give them a little water to fettle the earth clofe about 
them, and fet the pots in a warm fiiady place for about 
a week, to prepare the cuttings for putting forth roots; 
after which they fliould be plunged into a moderate hot¬ 
bed of tanners’ bark, which will greatly facilitate their 
rooting; but obferve to give them air, by railing the 
glades at all times when the weather will permit, as alfo 
to (hade the glalfes in the heat of the day. In about fix 
weeks or two months time after planting, thefe cuttings 
will be rooted, when you niuft begin to expofe them to 
the open air by degrees, firft drawing the pots out of the 
tan, and felting them on the top, then raife the glafles 
very high in the day-time; and in about a week after 
remove the pots into a green-houfe, and there harden 
them for another week ; after which they may be ex: 
pofed to the open air in a well defended place, obierving 
not to fet them in a place too much expofed to the fun, 
until they have been inured to the open air for fome time. 
In this place the plants may remain until the beginning 
of October, at which time you fliould remove them into 
the confervatory, placing them as near the windows as 
poflible at firft, letting them have as much free open air 
as the feafon will permit, by keeping the windows open 
whenever the weather is good : and now you niuft begin 
to abate your waterings, giving it to them fparingly; but 
you fliould not fuller their leaves to fhj'ink for want of 
moifture, which is another extreme fome people run into 
for want of a little obfervation ; for, when they are buf¬ 
fered to flirink for want of fufficient moifture to keep 
their veflels diftended, they are rendered incapable of 
difeharging this moifture whenever they receive it again. 
The fourteenth fort fliould be placed in a moderate Hove 
in winter, nor muft it be fet abroad till midfummer, for 
it is much tenderer than any of the others. 
The beft method to treat moil of thefe plants is, to 
place them in an open, airy, dry, glafs-cafe, among ficoi- 
defes and African houfeleeks, where they may enjoy as 
much of the fun-fhine as poflible, and have a free, dry, 
open air; for, if thefe are placed in a common green- 
houfe among fhrubby plants, which perfpire freely, thefe 
fucculent plants imbibe too much of the damp air, and 
thereby becoming too replete with moifture, often caft 
their leaves, and fome times their brandies decay, and 
