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imitating him in thofe infamous pleafures which have 
too much difgraced tlie fcholars of that age and country. 
His premature death is faid by Paul Jovius to have been 
the confequence of his vicious difpofition ; for being at 
an entertainment with fome of his pupils, and indulging 
in licentious difcourfe, one of them, unreftrained by any 
refpedVfor fuch a matter, threw either a cup of water, 
or a bottle, at him, with which affront he was fo much 
affefted that he died a few days after, in 1505, in his 
fortieth year. Crinitus wrote a work, in twenty-five 
books, entitled, De Honejia Difciplina, treating, in imita¬ 
tion of Aulus Gellius, on various queftions of erudition; 
alfo, De Poetis Latinis, in five books, which, though held 
cheap by Voflius, as defective in accuracy, gained him 
much applaufe, by being the firft work of the kind. He 
likewife compofed many Latin poems, inferted in the firft 
volume of Delicto: Poctarum Italorum. 
CRI'NITZ, a town of Germany, in the circle of Lower 
Saxony, and territory of Erzgcbirg : fix miles fouth of 
Zwickau. 
lo CRIN'KLE, v. n. [/irinckelen, Dut.] To go in and 
out; to run in flexures: diminutive of crankle : 
LTnlefs fome fweetnefs at the bottom lie, 
Who cares for all the crinkling of the pie ? King's Cookery. 
To CRTN'KLE, v. a. To mould into inequalities. 
CRIN'KLE, f. A wrinkle; a finuofity ; the hole in a 
fail which receives the rope that draws it up to the yard. 
CRINODEN'DRUM,y; [from nguov, a lily, and hvfyov, 
a tree; lily-tree.] In botany, a genus of the clafs mona- 
delphia, order decandria. The generic charadlers are— 
Calyx: none. Corolla: bell-fhaped; petals fix, oblong, 
erect, fpreading at the tip. Stamina : filaments ten, 
erect, united at bottom ; antherte ovate, ereft. Piftillum: 
germ fuperior, ovate; ftyle fubulate, a little longer than 
the ftamens. Pericarpium : capfule coriaceous, obtufe- 
ly three-cornered, one-celled, gaping elaftically at top. 
Seeds: three, roundifli.— FJfentialCharader. Calyx, none; 
corolla bell-fhaped, fix-petalled; capfule one-celled, 
gaping elaftically at top. 
The crinodendron patagua, which is the only fpecies 
at prefent known, is a fuperb ever-green branchy tree, 
with a body of feven feet in diameter. The leaves are 
oppofite, a great deal longer than the petioles, of a bright 
green, lanceolate, and ferrated : the flowers are fcattered 
and axillary, the peduncles one-flowered, the flowers 
having the odour of lilies. The feeds are of the fize of 
a lentil. It is a native of Chili. Joannes Ignatius Mo¬ 
lina was its firft difcoverer and defcriber. 
CRINOMY'RON,/: [from ygivov, a lily, and 
ointment.] An emollient ointment compofed chiefly of 
lilies. 
CRINO'NIS, f. [from crinis, Lat. a hair.] A difeafe 
mentioned by Parre, which, he fays, proceeds from fmall 
hairs flicking in the back. 
CRINO'SE, or Crinate, ad], [crinis. Lat.] Hairy. 
CRINO'SITY, f. Hairinefs. 
CRI'NUM, f. [derivation unknown.] In botany, a 
genus ot the clafs hexandria, order monogynia, natural 
order of fpathacete. The generic characters are—Calyx: 
involucre fpathe-form, two-leaved, oblong, umbellulife- 
rous, after gaping reflected. Corolla: one-petalled, fun- 
nel-form ; tube oblong, cylindric, inflected ; border fix- 
parted ; divifions lanceolate-linear, obtufe, concave, re¬ 
flected, of which the three alternate ones are diftinguifhed 
by a hooked appendicle. Stamina: filaments fix, fubu¬ 
late, trom the bafe of the border, of the length of the 
border, converging; antherte oblong, linear, riling up¬ 
wards, incumbent. Piftillum: germ inferior; ftyle fili¬ 
form, length of the flower; ftigma three-cleft, very 
fmall. Pericarpium: capfule fubovate, three-celled, cou 
vered with the calyx. Seeds: feveral. It differs from 
pancratium only in the want of a neCtary. LTIerit.—• 
FJfential Charatler. (Syft.) Corolla funnel-form, monope- 
talous, fix-paifed; three alternate fegments uncinate; 
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germ at the bottom of the corolla, covered; ftamina 
diftant.—(Lin. Fil. inHort. Kew.) Corolla funnel-form, 
half fix-cleft; tube filiform; border patulous recurved, 
fegments fubulate channelled ; filaments inferted in the 
throat of the tube, diftinCt. 
Species. 1. Crinum Afiaticum, or Afiatic crinum : 
leaves keeled. Root folid, turbinate, furrounded with 
long branching fibres; ftem fiiort, thick, coated, white, 
fingle ; leaves three feet long, three inches wide, fubu- 
late-linear, ereft, ftriated, thick, imbricate ; flowers white, 
large, in a firnple flat umbel. Linnaeus obferves, that 
the leaves are equitant in two rows. Native of Malabar, 
Ceylon, Tranquebar, Cochin-china, &c. Rumphius ex¬ 
tols the efficacy of tire roots againft poifon both of ler- 
pents and arrows, in cedematous fweliings, &c. Gaertner 
makes this a diftinft genus, under the name of bulbine ; 
affirming that it differs as much from crinum, as alftroe- 
meria from hemerocallis. For crinum has a fuperior, 
prifmatic, three-valved, capfule, and very fmall feeds, 
perpendicularly imbricate, and terminated by a membra¬ 
naceous wing, as in pinus : whereas the capfule in this 
is inferior, membranaceous, inflated and valvelefs; the 
feeds three-fided, membranaceous angles; the divifions 
of the corolla alfo are not hooked at the end; but his 
crinum is our agapanthus umbellatus. 
1. Crinum Americanum, or great American crinum : 
leaves oblong-lanceolate, very Imooth at tire edge, with 
the end contracted and hooked ; flowers pedicelled, with 
tire tube fhorter than the border. Flowering-ftem a foot 
and a half in height, the thicknefs of a finger, (lightly 
compreffed, coming out not from the center of the leaves, 
but on one fide; leaves two feet and more in length, and 
a hand broad, furrowed on the upper furface, and keeled 
on the lower, fmooth, ft iff, light green, (lightly waved 
on the edge, thickilh, (harp-pointed, pierced with many 
largifh pores: flowers before they open pale yellow, but 
when open of a milky whitenefs, and of no difagreeable 
.fmell: they open fuccellively, each lading a day or two. 
Native of South America ; flowering in July and Auguft. 
3. Crinum erubefcens, or fmall American crinum : 
leaves lanceolate, cartilaginous-crenulate, the end pro¬ 
duced and unfolded ; flowers feftile ; tube longer than 
the border. The flower-ftem arifes immediately from the 
root, on the outlide of the leaves, and is about two feet 
high ; on the top are eight or ten flowers, in form of an 
umbel, clofely joined at their bafe, but fpreading above. 
They are of a beautiful white colour, and fmell very 
fweet. The ftamens are ftretched out to a confiderable 
length beyond the petals. After the flowers are paft, 
the germ fwells, and becomes an oblong bulb. The 
plants generally flower three or four times in a year, but 
at no regular feafon; as the petals are of a very tender 
texture, they do not continue in beauty longer than four 
or five days. Native of the Spanith Weft Indies; Miller 
received roots of this and the foregoing fpecies, at lead 
as early as the year 1756, from Panama and Carthagena, 
probably fome years earlier, and cultivated them in the 
botanic garden at Chelfea. 
4. Crinum tenellum, or tender crinum : fpathe many- 
flowered, corollas equal, leaves filiform. Found at the 
Cape of Good Hope, by Sparmann. According to the 
opinion of the younger Linnaeus and Solander, this is a 
leucoium, or perhaps a new genus. 
5. Crinum lineare, or linear crinum: leaves linear; 
corollas bell-form, with two fegments narrower than 
the reft. Flowers large, white. Found at the Cape by 
Thunberg. 
6. Crinum-iiervofunr, or nerve-leaved crinum : leaves 
roundifh, nerved; filaments widened at the bafe. Native 
of the Philippine iflands; obferved by Monf. Poivre. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe bulbs ar.e very orna¬ 
mental plants for the ftove. They are eafily propagated 
by offsets, which the roots put out in plenty ; or by the 
bulbs which fucceed the flowers, and ripen perfectly 
here. Thefe muft be planted in pots filled with rich 
earth. 
