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into fmall pots filled with light earth, and plunged into a 
hot-bed of tanners bark in the f'pring, and treated in the 
fame manner as other tender exotic feeds, giving them 
now and then a little water to promote their vegetation. 
When the plants are come up about two inches high, they 
fliould be tranfplanted each into a feparate'pot, filled with 
light firndy earth, and plunged again in a hot-bed of tanners 
barkjobferving toihade the glafiesin the heat ofthe day,until 
the plants have taken new root; they mull alfo be frequent¬ 
ly refrefhed with water, but it mull not be given in too 
large quantities. As the fummer advances, thefe plants 
Ihould have air admitted to them in proportion to the 
warmth of the feafon ; and, when they have filled thefe 
fmall pots with their roots, they Ihould be turned out and 
tranfplanted into other pots of a larger fize, but they mull 
not be too large ; for the roots of thefe plants fliould be 
confined, nor ihould the earth in which they are planted 
be rich, but a light fandy foil is bell for them ; after they 
are new potted they fliould be plunged into the hot-bed 
again, obferving to water them now and then, as alfo to 
admit air under the glades every day in proportion to the 
warmth of the feafon. When the plants are grown about 
a foot high, they fhould have a larger lhare of air in order 
to harden them before the winter, but they fliould not be 
wholly expofed to the open air. In the winter thefe plants . 
fliould be placed in a warm Hove, ar.d during that feafon 
they fliould have very little water given to them, efpeci- 
nlly in cold weather, left it fliould rot their roots. In the 
following fpring thefe plants fhould be (biffed again into 
other pots, at which time you fhould take away as much 
as you conveniently can of the old earth from their roots, 
and afterwards cut oft' the decayed fibres; then put them 
into pots filled with the fame light fandy earth, and plunge 
them into the bark-bed again, for thefe plants.will not 
thrive well unlefs they are conftantly kept in tan : and, as 
they abound with milky juice, they fliould be fparingly 
watered, for they are impatient of moifture, efpecially 
during the winter feafon. When by any accident the tops 
of thefe plants are injured, they frequently put out (hoots 
from their roots, which, if carefully taken up and potted, 
will make good plants. 
CER'BERUS, f. one of the new conftellations formed 
by Hevelius out of the unformed ftai s, and added to the 
forty-eight old afterifms. It contains only four liars, which 
are enumerated under Hercules, in the Britannic cata¬ 
logue. 
CERBERUS, in fabulous hiftory, a three-headed maf- 
tiff, born of Typhon and Echidna, and placed to guard 
the gates of hell. He fawmed upon thofe who entered, but 
devoured all who attempted to get back. He was, how¬ 
ever, mallered by Hercules, who dragged him up to the 
earth, where in ftruggling a foam dropped from his mouth, 
which produced the poifonous herb called aconite, or 
* wolf’s bane. Some have fuppofed that Cerberus is the fym- 
bol of the earth, or of all-devouring time : and that its 
three mouths reprefent the prelent, paft, and future. The 
vidlory obtained by Hercules over this monfter, denotes 
the conqueft which this hero is faid to have acquired over 
his paflions. Mr. Bryant fuppofes that the notion both of 
Cerberus and Hades being fubterraneous deities, took its 
rife from the temples of old being fituated near vaft ca¬ 
verns, which were efteemed pafthges to the realms below. 
Enfebius from Plutarch fays, that Cerberus was the Sun; 
but it was. properly Kir-Abor, the place of the Sun, the 
parent of light. The fame temple had different names 
from the diversity of the god’s titles, who was there wor¬ 
shipped. It was called Tor-Caph-El, which the Greeks 
changed to Tpixs^aXcc : it was alfo called Tor-Keren, Turris 
Regia, which they exprefied Tputapwc; and hence arofe 
the fi£lion that Calien-Ades, or Cerberus, was a triple- 
headed monfter. 
CER/BOLI, a fmall i(land, or rock, in the Mediterra¬ 
nean, near the coaft of Tufcany, a little to the north of 
the., ill and of Elva. 
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CER'CA, a town of Italy, in the Vercnefe, belonging 
to the (late of Venice : four miles weft Legnano. 
CER'CF.LE, f. a crofs or device in armorial bearings; 
for which See Heraldry. 
CERCENAS / CO, a town of Piedmont, in the marqui- 
fateofSaluzzo : twenty-one miles fouth-fouth-weft of Turin. 
CERCHA'RO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of 
Naples, and province of Calabria Citra : fix miles north- 
north-eaft of Caflaro. 
CERCHIAIRT, a river of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, which runs into the Gulf of Tarento, nine miles 
eaft-north-eaft of Cafiano. 
CERCHN A'LEUM, [from Gr. to make a noife.] 
A wheezing, or bubbling noife made by the trachea in 
breathing. 
CER'C 1 S ,_/1 fpatbula, a name of Theophraf- 
tus’s.J The Judas-tree; in botany, a genus of the 
clafs decandi ia, order moiiogynia, natural order of lomen- 
tacese. The generic characters are—Calyx : perianthium 
one-leafed, very fhort, bell-(liaped, gibbous below, melli¬ 
ferous ; mouth five-toothed, ere£t, obtufe. Corolla: pen- 
tapetalous, inferted into the calyx, refembling a papilio¬ 
naceous corolla. Wings : petals two, bent upwards, af¬ 
fixed by long claws. Standard : petal one, ioundilh, 
clawed beneath the wings, and (hotter than the wings* 
Keel: petals two, converging into a cordate figure, inclu¬ 
ding the organs of generation, affixed by claws. Nedlary, 
a ftyie-fliaped gland, below the germ. Stamina: filaments 
ten, diftindl, (ubulate, bent downwards, of w'hich four 
are longer than the reft, covered. Anthers: oblong, in¬ 
cumbent, rifing upwards. Piftillum : germ linear-lanceo¬ 
late, pedicelled. Style of the length and fituation of the 
ftamens. Stigma : obtufe, afeending. Pericarpium : le¬ 
gume oblong, obliquely acuminate, unilocular. Seeds: 
lomeVoundiffi, connected to the fuperior future .—EJfential 
CharaSler —Calyx: five-toothed, gibbous below. Corol¬ 
la: papilionaceous, Standard: (hort, beneath the wings. 
Legume. 
Species, i. Cercis filiquaftrum, or common judas-trees 
leaves cordate-orbicular fmooth. This fpecies is by the 
Spaniards and Portuguefe called the tree of love : it rifes 
with an upright trunk to the height of twenty feet, cover¬ 
ed with a dark brown bark, dividing upwards into many 
irregular branches, with leaves placed irregularly on the 
branches, on long foot-ftalks ; they are of a pale green on 
their upper, and of a greyiffi colour on their under, fide* 
and fall off in autumn. The flowers come out on every 
fide the branches, and many times from the ftem of the 
tree in large clufters, ariling from the fame point, on ffiort 
peduncles ; they are of a very bright purple colour, and 
make a fine appearance, efpecially when the branches are 
covered pretty thick with them : they come out in the 
fpring with the leaves, and are in full beauty before the 
leaves have attained half their fize. The flower is papili¬ 
onaceous, and having an agreeable poignancy, is frequent- 
ly eaten in (alads. When the flowers fall off, the germ be¬ 
comes a long flat pod, containing one rovt' of roundifti 
feeds, a little comprefled ; but thefe do not often fucceed 
the flowers in this country upon ftandard trees, for the 
birds pick off the flowers when fully open ; but, where they 
have been planted againft good a(pe£led walls, the pods, 
in warm feafons, have ripened very well. Thefe trees are 
ufually planted with other flowering trees and ftrubs for 
ornaments to pleafure-gardens, and, for their Angular 
beaut}', deferve a place as well as mod other forts; for, 
wdien they are arrived to a good fize, they are produftive 
of flowers, fo as that the branches aie often clofely cover¬ 
ed with them ; and the Angular fhape of their leaves makes 
a very pretty variety in the fummer, and they are feldom 
damaged by infefts. This tree flowers in May, wdien 
planted in the full air, but againll warm walls it is a fort¬ 
night or three weeks earlier. The wood of this tree is very 
beautifully veined with black and green, and taking a (ins 
poliflx may be converted to many ufes. There are two va¬ 
rieties 
