430 CUC 
lefs. Native of Siberia ; flowers from June to Auguft, 
and is perennial. 
io. Cucubalus catholicus, or panicled campion : pe¬ 
tals two-parted, flowers panicled, ftamens long, leaves 
lanceolate-ovate. This is a perennial plant, fending out 
many long leaves near the ground ; between thefe arife 
round vifeid (talks three feet high (or from eighteen 
inches to that height), having'at each joint two long nar¬ 
row leaves, ending in acute points. Flowers in a nodding 
panicle ; calyx ventricofe, inflated, not finuated or an¬ 
gular ; petals white; antherse reddifh ; flyles white; 
capfule fu'oglobular. Linnaeus affirms, that the calyx is 
dufky or brown ; Krocker fays, it is either of a very pale 
whitifh bay, or elfe greenifh and glaucous, netted with 
bay-coloured veins. Native of Italy, Sicily, and Silefia. 
It flowers in Auguft. Dillcnius’s lychnisno£lurna non vifeofa 
is a variety of this. It is perennial ; root-leaves many, 
oblong, narrow, (the firft broader,) fmooth, without 
veins. Stems two feet high and more, round, fmooth, 
purplifn towards the top, glaucous, not vifeid; towards 
the middle and upper part come out branches in pairs, 
of a purplifh green colour, dividing into others that are 
fimilar, which put forth flowers in June and July: at 
firft the flowers are crowded into an oblong pendulous 
fpike; then they become loofer and form a thin nodding 
panicle ; and, when the feeds grow ripe, the whole 
panicle becomes eredt. It was fent over by Boerhaave, 
and cultivated in the Eltham garden. 
ri. Cucubalusmolliffimus, orvelvet campion : petals 
half-two-parted, panicle dichotomous, (iem and leaves 
foft like velvet, root-leaves fpatulate ; Items many, ra¬ 
ther ft iff, eredt, a foot high, fomewhat tonientofe, very 
foft : branches at bottom alternate, fhorter. Perennial, 
flirubby. Native of the fea-coalts of Italy. 
12. Cucubalus otites, or Spanifh campion, or catch- 
fly : flowers dioecous, petals linear, undivided ; Items 
from one to two feet high, upright, the lower partcloath- 
ed with a few oppoflte leaves ; the upper part is naked 
and clammy ; the male flowers often produce abortive 
piftils, and the females abortive ftamens. The male plant, 
fays Haller, h is a larger flower, and a redder calyx : the 
female has a fmalier flower, and a green calyx. The 
male plants often grow four or five feet high ; but thofe 
of the female are leldom above three feet. The flowers 
of the former are produced in loofe (pikes from the lower 
joints of the (talk, but, on the upper part, they Hand in 
Angle peduncles, in clufters, quite round the ftalks ; thefe 
are fmall, and of a greenifh colour. The female plants 
have three or four flowers growing upon each peduncle, 
which arife from the fldes of the ftulk. According to 
Scopoli, the male flowers are apetalous, and have the ru¬ 
diment of a three-ftyled germ. With us both fexes have 
the fame narrow entire yellowifh petals. In Tartary it 
is found with an hermaphrodite flower, but rarely fo with 
us. Native of Germany, Denmark, Swifferland, the Va¬ 
lais, France, Italy, Carnioia, Spain, Siberia, England, in 
gravelly and fandy foils; as in gravel-pits, on the north 
fide of Newmarket, about Chippenham; beyond Barton 
Mills, in the way to Brandon, and beyond Brandon, in 
theroadtoHillfborough; near Swafil\amandNarborough, 
Norfolk. It flowers in July and Auguft. It is marked 
by Linnaeus, Villars, Krocker, &c.as perennial. Miller 
fays biennial ; and fo it is marked in the Kew catalogue. 
Gerarde calls it great bajlard welde, or woade-, he had the 
feeds from Padua, and expedted the flowers in 1597. 
Parkinfon names it greater Spani/h catchjly. They did not 
know that it was a native of England ; Ray feems firft to 
have noticed this : Ray alfo fays it is known in Suffolk, 
by the name of “ Star of the Earth,” and is in great re¬ 
pute as a remedy for the hydrophobia. Though Ray 
has no doubt of its efficacy, we lliould be forry now to 
depend on fuch a remedy in fuch a diforder. 
• 13. Cucubalus reflexus, or reflexed campion : flowers 
fpikedalternate inone row, fubfeflile, petals fubbipartite, 
obfeure. Linnaeus defires that this may be compared with 
CUC 
Jilene mutabilis, of which, perhaps, it may be only a va¬ 
riety. According to Morifon, the Item is a foot high, 
and eredt ; two narrow hirfute leaves at each joint; to¬ 
wards the top it bears white flowers, with narrow petals 
cloven to the middle, all turned one way ; capfules ob¬ 
long, hirfute on the outiide ; feedsblackifh. Magnol thus 
deferibes his plant: Root white, fibrous; Item (fometimes 
there are two) a palm and half in height ; at the top of 
the fiema fpike of flowers, bent down at firft like a fcor- 
pion’s tail, but gradually becoming eredt after the flowers 
fall. It is an annual plant; Linnaeus marks it as peren¬ 
nial. Native of Montpellier. Ray found-Morifon’s plant 
about Naples and Medina. 
14. Cucubalus faxifragus, or faxifrage campion : petals 
bifid, calyxes ftriated, the terminating ones fubfeflile, the 
fide ones peduncled ; root perennial ; ftem a palm in 
height, with linear leaflets ; native of the Levant. 
15. Cucubalus pumilio, or dwarf campion : ftems one- 
flowered, (horter than the flow'er; found near Geneva ; 
in Styria, and the mountains bordering on Carinthia; on. 
the mountains of Italy and Moravia. Perennial. 
16. Cucubalus glutinofus, or glutinous campion ; pe¬ 
tals two-parted, calyxes club-fhaped, panicle dichoto¬ 
mous, fpreading very much, ftamens and piftils ftraight. 
17. Cucubalus paniculatus, or panicled campion : root- 
leaves ovate, acute, ftem-leaves lanceolate, oppolite ; 
flowers panicled, eredt. This is a biennial plant'; root- 
leaves many, on long petioles. From among thefe arifes 
an upright Italic, fending out two oppolite fide-branches 
at each joint; under each of thefe is one lanceolate-acute 
leaf. The fide-branches, and alfo the upright (terns, are 
terminated by whitifh flowers, formed into a panicle, and 
(landing eredt. They appear in June, and are fucceeded 
by feeds which ripen in autumn. Native of Spain and 
Italy, whence Mr. Miller had thd feeds ; he cultivated 
it in 1759. 
Propagation and Culture. The firft fpecies delights in 
(hade, and will thrive in almoft any foil. It is apt to 
multiply too faft by its creeping roots. The fecond is a 
rambling weed, and feldom cultivated. The root (trikes 
fo deep into the ground, as not eafily to be deftroyed by 
the plough ; and therefore it is frequently feen growing 
in bundles among corn. The third is biennial, generally 
perilhing when it has produced feeds; but unlefs it is 
fown upon very dry rubbifti, and in a warm (ituation, the 
plants will not live through the winter in England; for, 
when they are in good ground, they grow large, and are 
fo replete with moifture, as to be aifedted by the firftfroft 
in the autumn ; but, where they have grown upon an 
old wall, have been knowm to efcape, when all thofe 
were killed which grew in the ground. The reft are 
propagated by feeds, which fliould be fown where the 
plants are defigned to remain; for, as they fend out long 
top-roots, they do not bear tranfplanting, unlefs while 
the plants are young. The twelfth is very hardy, and 
will thrive in almoft any foil or (ituation, but agrees beft 
with a dry foil. It is necelfary to have Come male plants 
among the females, to have perfedt feeds. See Lychnis 
and Silene. 
CU'CUJUS, f. in entomology, a genus of infedts be¬ 
longing to the order coleoptera, the characters of which 
are : antennae filiform ; feelers four, equal, the laft joint 
truncate and thicker ; lip fhort, bifid; the divilions linear 
and diftant: body depreffed. Gmelin enumerates only 
eleven fpecies ; two of which, the cucujus deprejfus, and 
the caruleus, are figured of their natural fize in the en¬ 
graving. They inhabit every quarter of the globe, though 
they are feldom feen, being moftly found in rotten wood. 
This genus was originally formed by profeflor Fabricius. 
The name, however, is not new ; it had been already ap¬ 
plied by Geoffroy to the Bupreftes; and it has been ufed 
to defignate a fort of Indian infect which (hines in the 
night like a glow-worm. It is difficult to diftinguilh the 
generic characters of the cucujus without the help of a 
good miciofcope. 
1, Cucujus 
