C H R 
There are many varieties, but the flowers of all are 
final). It is found both wild and cultivated, in China 
and Cochinchina. 
Propagation and. Culture, i. This plant will perfect feeds 
in England, when the feafons are favourable; but, as 
■cuttings take root very eafily during any of the fummer 
months, the feeds are rarely fown. Being a native of 
warm countries, it will not live in the open air in Eng¬ 
land during the winter; therefore, when the cuttings 
have made good roots, they Ihould be each planted into 
a feparate pot, and placed in the Ihade till they have 
taken frefh root; then remove them to a fheltered fitua- 
tion till autumn, and thence into the green-lioufe, giving 
them free air in mild weather, and frequently refrefhing 
them with gentle waterings in winter. In fummer they 
will require more moifture, and fhould be treated in the 
lame manner as other hardier exotics. 
2. Multiplies very fail by its creeping roots, and will 
thrive in any foil or fituation. 
6. Sow the feeds in a ihady border; they will come up 
in about fix weeks, Tranfpjant them, when fit to re¬ 
move, into another ihady border, where they may remain, 
and keep them clean from weeds. 
7. 12. Thefe rarely gerfeft feeds in England, but being 
perennials, may eafily be increafed by parting the roots. 
The belt time for this is in autumn. 
8. This fort ripens every year in England, by which 
the plant is eafily propagated ; for, if the feeds are fown 
in the fpring on a common border, the plants will come 
up in fix weeks; when thefe are fit to remove, they 
may be tranfplanted into a nurfery-bed, at about a foot 
diilance every way, and kept clean from weeds till au¬ 
tumn, when they may be removed to the places where 
they are defigned to remain. As thefe plants extend their 
branches pretty far on every fide, they ihould be allowed 
at leail two feet room ; therefore they are not very pro¬ 
per furniture for fmall gardens, where there is not room 
for thefe large growing plants; but in large gardens they 
may have a place for the fake of variety. If planted in 
poor dry land, or upon lime-rubbifli, they will not grow 
fo vigorous as in good ground; but they will endure the 
cold better, and continue longer; when very fucculent, 
they are apt to rot in winter; but, where they grow 
from the joints of old walls, they continue in vigour fe¬ 
deral years. 
i 7 - In order to deflroy this weed, Linnaeus recom¬ 
mends to dung the ground in autumn ; then to give the 
land a fummer fallow, and to harrow in about five days 
after lowing. 
20. Is very hardy, will live in the open air, and may 
be increafed eafily by flips ; but does not perfect feeds in 
England, unlefs in warm dry feafons. 
22. Thefe plants are always efteemed as annual, fo the 
feeds are ufually fown upon a fiender hot-bed in the 
fpring, and the plants treated in the fame manner as the 
African marigold, for the culture of which we (hall refer 
the reader to the article Tagetes ; but, as the plants 
which rife from feeds do many of them produce fingle 
flowers, although'the feeds are faved from the bell double 
flowers, therefore many perfons now propagate thefe 
plants from cuttings, whereby they continue the double 
forts only ; thefe cuttings, taken from the plants the be¬ 
ginning of September, and planted in pots, will readily 
take root; and, if they are placed under a hot-bed frame 
to fereen them from the froft in winter, letting them have 
free air in mild weather, they will live through the win¬ 
ter ; and in the fpring thefe plants may be tranfplanted 
into the borders of the flower-garden, where they will 
flower in June, and continue in fucceffion till the froft 
puts a (top to them. By this method all the varieties 
may be continued without variation, but the plants which 
are propagated this way by cuttings will become barren 
foon, and will not produce feeds. See Amellus, Ana- 
cyclus, Anthemis, Arctotis, Athanasia, Bal- 
timora, Bidens, Brunia, Bvphthalmum, Cacalia, 
Vol. IV. No. 220. 
C H R 569 
Carpesium, Chrysogonum, Coreopsis, Cotula, 
Eclipta, Ethulia, Hglenium, Helianthus, Oste- 
osp£rmum,Othonna, Polymni a, Protea, Senecig, 
SlLPHIUM, SpiLANTHUS, and-VERBESINA. 
CHRYSAN'THIUS, a philofopher in the age of Ju¬ 
lian, known for the great number of volumes he wrote. 
CHRYSA'OR, a fon of Medufa by Neptune. Some 
report, that hefprung from the blood of Medufa, armed 
with a golden fword, whence his name^pvero? «op. ■ He 
married Calirrhoe, one of the Oceanides, by whom he had 
Geryon, Echidna, and the Chimsera. Hcfiod. 
CHRYSAO'REUS, a l’urname of Jupiter, from his 
temple at Stratonice, where ail the Carians aflembled upon 
any public emergency. Strabo'. 
CHRY.SER'MUS, a Corinthian, who wrote an hiftory 
of Peloponnefus, and of India, befides a treatife on rivers. 
CHRY'SES, aprieftof Apollo, and father of Aftynome, 
called from him Chryfeis. When Lyrneffus was taken, 
and the fpoils divided among the conquerors, Chryfeis 
fell to the fliare of Agamemnon. Chryfes, upon this, 
went to the Grecian camp to folicit his daughter’s refto- 
ration; and when his prayers were fruitlefs, he implored 
the aid of Apollo, who vilited the Greeks with a plague, 
and obliged them to rellore Chryfeis. Homer. 
CHRYSIP'PUS, a natural fon of Pelops, highly fa¬ 
voured by his father, for which Hippodamia, his ltep- 
mother, ordered her own fons, Atreus and Thyeftes, to 
kill him, on account of which they were banifhed. Some 
fay that Hippodamia’s fons refuled to murder Chryfippus, 
and that flie did it herfelf. They farther, fay,-that Chry- 
flppus had been carried away by Laius, king of Thebes, 
to gratify his unnatural lulls, and that he was in his arms 
when Hippodamia killed him. Afollodoriis .—A famous 
ftoic philolopher of Tarlus, who wrote about 311 treadles. 
Among his curious opinions was his approbation of a pa¬ 
rent’s marriage with his child, and his wifh that dead 
bodies Ihould be eaten rather than buried. Being told 
that fome perfons fpoke ill of him, “ It is no matter,’’ 
faid he, “ I will live fo that they lhall not be believed.” 
He died through excels of wine; or, as others fay, from 
laughing too much on feeing an afs eating figs on a filver 
plate, 207 B. C. in the 80th year of his age. Val. Max. 
CHRY'SIS,/. the Golden-Fly; in entomology, a 
genus of infefts belonging to the order of hymenoptera. 
The mouth is armed with jaws, but has no probofeis; 
the antennas are filiform, bent, and confift of twelve arti¬ 
culations 5 the abdomen is arched, with a fcale on each 
fide; the anus is dentated, and armed with a fting ; the 
wings lie plain; and the body appears as if gilt. The 
ignita, or flaming chryfis, is beautified. The fore-part of 
its head is green and gold, and the hinder azure. The 
thorax is likewife azured over, with a mixture of green, 
and terminates at its extremity with lliarp points on both 
fides. The abdomen is green and gold before, and of a 
coppery-red behind, imitating molten copper highly po- 
liflied. The whole infeft: is dotted on its upper part, 
which gives it a great refplendency of colour. The an¬ 
tennas are black, and legs green intermixed with gold. 
This fpecies dwells in holes of walls between the Hopes, 
and in the mortar that cements them. It is often feen 
iffuing from fuch holes, where it nellies and performs its 
work. The larvae,, which refembles t.hofe of the walp, 
likewife inhabit the holes of decayed walls.'. Of this in* 
left there are twenty-feven fpecies now afeertained. 
CHRY'SIS,/. in botany. See Helianthus. 
CHRYSI'PRIX, f. [from golden, and %|» 
liair.] In botany, a genus of the clafs polygamiu, order 
dioecia, natural order of calamarias. The generic eba- 
rafters are—-Calyx: glumes bivalve, many, imbricate; 
valvelets ovate-oblong, clofe, cartilaginous, permanent. 
Corolla: chaffs extremely numerous, heaped into a faf- 
cicle, l'etaceous, membranaceous, coloured, bright, longer 
than the calyx, permanent. Stamina: filaments folitary, 
between the chaffs capillary, the length of the chaffs; 
antheras linear, growing on each filament, except the tip 
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