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wife they will rot. When the cuttings are planted, the 
pots fhould be plunged into a hot-bed of tanners’ bark, 
and now and then gently refrefhed with water; the belt 
time for planting thcfe cuttings is in June or July, that 
they may be well rooted before the cold Weather comes 
on in autumn. In winter thefe plants may be placed up¬ 
on Hands in the dry Hove; but, if in fummer they are 
plunged into the tan-bed, they will make great progrefs, 
and tlieir leaves will be large, in which confdts the great 
beauty of thefe plants. See Decumaria. 
CLUSI'NA PA'LUS, in ancient geography, a lake of 
Tufcany, extending north-weft, between Clufium and Ar- 
retium, and communicating with the Arnus and Clanis. 
Now Ckiana Palude 
CI.USI'NI FON'TES, ancient baths in Tufcany, in 
the territory of Clufium, between this laft to the north, 
and Acula to the fouth, at the diftance of eight miles 
from each. Now Bagni di S. Cafciana. 
CLU'SIUM, anciently a town of Tufcany, at the fouth 
end of the P.dus Cluliana, where it forms the Clanis ; the 
royal relidence of Porfena, three days journey from Rome 
to the north. Now Cbiuji. Ciufium Novum was a town 
of Tufcany, near the ip rings of the Tiber, in the terri¬ 
tory of-Arretium, where lies the Ager Clufinus, now 
called Cafentmo ; Clufiv.i Novi, the people. Pliny. 
CLUS'TER,/ [clyptep, Sax. kHJler, Dut.J A bunch; 
a number of things of the fame kind growing or joined 
together.— Grapes will continue trefti and moift all win¬ 
ter, if you hang them clujler by clujler in the roof of a 
warm room. Bacon. 
An elm was near, to vvhofe embraces led, 
The curling vine her iweliing clujlers l’pread. Pope. 
A number of animals gathered together: 
As bees 
Pour forth their populous youth about the hive 
In clujlers. Milton. 
There with their clafping feet together clung. 
And a long clujler from the laurel hung. Dryden. 
A body of people collefted : ufed in contempt —My friend 
took his ftation among a clujler of mob, who were making 
themfelves merry with their betters. Addifon. 
To CLUS'TER, v. n. To grow in bunches; to gather 
into bunches; to congregate : 
Great father Bacchus, to my fong repair; 
For clujlering grapes are thy peculiar care. Dryden. 
Or from the foreft falls the clujler d fnow, 
Myriads of gems. Thomfon. 
'To CLUS'TER, <v. a. To collect any thing into bodies. 
CLUS'PERY, adj. Growing into clufters. 
CLU'TIA. See Clytia and Andrachne. 
To CLUTCH, v. a. [je-clechr, Sax.] To hold in the 
hand; to gripe; to gralp : 
They, 
Like moles within us, heave and caft about; 
And, till they foot and dutch their prey, 
They never cool. Herbert. 
To comprize; to grafp.—A man may fet the poles to¬ 
gether in his head, and dutch the whole globe at one in¬ 
tellectual grafp. Collier. —To contract; to double the 
hand, fo as to leize and hold fait: 
Not that I have the power to clutch my hand, 
When his fair angels would falute my palm. Shakefpeare. 
CLUTCH, f. The gripe; grafp; feizure. Generally, 
in the plural, the paws, the talons.—It was the hard for¬ 
tune of a cock to fall into the clutches of a cat. L'Ejlrange. 
—Hands, in a lenfe of rapacity and cruelty : 
Set up the covenant on crutches, 
’Gainft thole who have us in their dutches. Hudibras. 
.CLUT'TER,/. See Clatter, A noife; a buttle; a 
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bufy tumult; a hurry; a clamour. Alovs nvord. —He favv 
what a clutter there was with huge over-grown pots, pans, 
and Ipits. L’EJlrange. 
To CLUT'TER, v. n. To make a noife or buftle. 
CLUVESYE'CK, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Holltein : five miles ealt-north-eaft of Rendfburg. 
CLUVIER, or Cluverius, (Philip), a celebrated geo¬ 
grapher, born at Dantzic, in 1580. After an education 
at home, he travelled into Poland, Germany, and the 
Netherlands, to improve himfelf in the knowledge of the 
law. But, when at Leyden, Jofeph Scaliger perfuaded 
him to give way to his natural bent for geography. In 
purfuance of this advice, Cluvier vifited the greateft part 
of the European ftates. He was well (killed in many lan¬ 
guages, fpeaking with facility, Greek, Latin, German, 
French, Englifli, Dutch, Italian, Hungarian, Polilh, and 
Bohemian. On his return to Leyden, he taught there 
with great applaufe; and died in 1623, being only 43 
years of age, juftly efteenied the firft geographer who had 
put his refearches in order, and reduced them to regular 
principles. He was author of feveral ingenious works in 
geography, viz. 1. De Tribus Rheni Alvcis. ^. Germania 
Antiqua. 3. Italia Antiqua, Sicilia, Sardinia, & CorJica . 
4. Introdudio in Univerfam Geograpbiam. 
CLUYD, or Clwyd, a river of North Wales, which 
runs through a vale of the fame name, pafies by Ruthin, 
St. Afaph, Sic. and runs into the Irilh fea, fix miles below 
the latter town. 
CLUY'TIA, f. [named by Boerhaave, in memory of 
Augerius Clutius, Dirk Autgers Cluyt, profeffor of botany 
at Leyden.] In botany, a genus of the clafs dioecia, order 
gynandria, natural order of tricoccas. The generic cha¬ 
racters are. I. Male. Calyx : perianthium live-leaved, 
fize of the corolla ; leaflets ovate, obtufe, concave, fpread- 
ing. Corolla : petals five, fpreading very much, cordate ; 
claws fiat, fhorter than the calyx. NeCtaries exterior 
five, three-parted, oblong, fpreading, length of the claws 
of the petals, placed in a circle within the petals. Nec¬ 
taries interior five, glandiform, fmall, melliferous at the 
tip. Stamina : filaments five, placed on the middle of 
the ftyle, remote from the corolla spreading horizontally, 
antherse roundilh, verfatile. Piftillum : germ none ; ftyle 
cylindric, truncate, very long, bearing the ftamens on 
its middle. II. Female. Calyx : perianthium, as in the 
male, permanent. Corolla: petals, as in the male, per¬ 
manent. NeCtaries exterior five, twin, roundilh, of the 
fame fize andfituation as' in the male ; interior none. Pif¬ 
tillum : germ roundilh ; ftyles three: bifid, reflex, length 
of the corolla; ftigmas obtufe. Perianthium: caplule 
globular, fix-furrowed, rough, three-celled. Seeds : foli- 
tary, roundilh, even, appendiculated at the tip. There 
are fpecies which are decandrous, and androgynous.—» 
EJfential Cbarader. Calyx, five-leaved; corolla, five- 
petalled. Female, ftyles three; capfule, three-celled; 
feed, one. 
Species. 1. Cluytia alaternoides, or narrow-leaved 
clutia: leaves fubfeflile, linear-lanceolate flowers folitary,, 
ereCt. Stem Ihrubby, fix or eight feet high, putting out 
many fide branches which grow ereCt; leaves of a greyifh 
colour, and entire. The flowers come out from the 
joints, at the fetting on of the leaves, towards the upper 
part of the branches; they are fmall, and of a greenilh 
white, appear from June to Auguft, and make no great 
appearance. Cultivated 1692, in the royal garden at 
Hampton Court. Miller informs us, that plants with 
male flowers had been long in the Englilh gardens, but 
that thofe which bear female flowers were introduced af¬ 
terwards. 
2. Cluytia polygonoides: leaves lanceolate; flowers 
axillary, very many. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
3. Cluytia pulchella, or broad-leaved clutia: leaves 
ovate, quite entire; flowers lateral. This rifes about the 
fame height with the firft, but has a (Longer ftem. The 
leaves are much larger, fea-green, and on petioles an inch 
long. The flowers are like thofe of the firft fort in lhape 
and 
