756 C O I 
CO/TION, f [ coitio, Lat.] Cooulation ; the aft of ge¬ 
neration.—I cannot but admire that philofophers fhould 
imagine frogs to fall from the clouds, confidering how 
openly they aft their coition, produce fpawn, tadpoles, and 
frogs. Raj.— He is not made productive of his kind, but 
by coition with a female. Grew .—The aft by which two 
, bodies come together.—By Gilbeitus this motion is term¬ 
ed coition, not made'by anjf faculty attractive of one, but 
a fyndrome and concourfe of each. Brew i. 
COIX, f. [a name of Theophraftus for one of his reed¬ 
leaved plants, allied to the paints.] In botany, a genus of 
■ the clafs monoecia, order triandria, natural order grades, 
ft lie generic characters are—Male flowers difpofed in a 
loofe (pike. Calyx: glume two-flowered, two-valved ; 
valves oblong-ovate, obtufe, awnlefs, the outer thicker. 
Corolla: two-.valved; valves ovate-lanceolate, length of 
the calyx, very thin, awnlefs. Stamina: filaments three) 
capillary ; antherseoblong, four-cornered. Female flowers 
fewer, at the bafe. of the male fpike, on the fame plant. 
Calyx: glume two-flowered, two-valved; valves round¬ 
ed,^ thick, fhining, hard; the outer larger, (hili-ing. Co¬ 
rod a : glume two-valved, outer valve ovate, larger; in¬ 
ner narrower, fmaller; both awnlefs. Piftillum; germ 
°vace, very final 1; ftyle (hort, -two-parted ; ftigmas two, 
horned, longer than the flower, pubgfeent on every fide. 
Pericarpium : none; the outward calycine glume grows 
clofely to the feed, increafes, grows (hilling, falls, does 
not gape. Seed: folitary, -roundifh, covered by the ofii- 
fied calyx.— EJJ'ential Char after. Males in remote (pikes; 
calyx, glume two-flowered, awnlefs 5 corolla, glume awn- 
Jefs. Females. Calyx, glume two-flowered ; corolla, glume 
awnlefk; ftyle two-parted; feed, covered by the calyx 
o (Fined. 
Species. 1. Coix lacryma, qr Job ? s tears: feeds ovate. 
Culm (ix feet high, perennial, fubcylindric, folid, jointed, 
ereft, branched; leaves lancedlate, quite entire," long, 
wrinkled underneath, reflex, clafping; flowers axillary, 
on a long, (lender, fub-ereft, common, peduncle; at the 
top many males in a fubovate fpikelet; and at the bafe 
-a (olitary female. The two ftyles are capillary and en 
tirely diltinft, with long villofe ftigmas. From the (heaths 
of the upper leaves come out one or two peduncles, com- 
prefted, (heathed at the bafe, ending at the top in a cori¬ 
aceous ovate involucre, hollow within, perforated at the 
top, containing one or two covered leflile female flowers, 
furrounded on one fide with an exterior ghimaceous valve, 
and having on the other a (ingle groove with twofiftulofe 
clofed appendicles ; a ftipe is put forth from the bottom, 
of the involucre between the appendicles, ending in a 
fliort few-flowered male fpike; the involucre is perma¬ 
nent, hard, fhining, fmooth. There is only a Angle feed 
produced in eaih involucre, the other being conlfantly 
abortive; it is large, fnbglobular, gibbpfe on one fide, 
with a broad deep groove on the other, beaked at the top 
with the permanent ftyle, and having at the bottom a 
black umbilical hole ; the female involucre, which covers 
it and does not quit it, is thick, ftony, ovate-conical, 
perforated at the top and bottom, fmooth, fhining, of a 
livid or purplilh colour. Gaertner objefts to the name of 
coix, becaule that is a fort of palm, or a plant nearly allied 
to the palms, mentioned both by Theophraftus and Pliny; 
he therefore changes it to lithagrofiis. Native of the Fall 
Indies; cultivated in 1596 by Gerarde. 
2. Coix angulata, or large Job’s tears: feeds angular. 
This will grow to the height of feven or height feet, 
whereas the foregoing is feldom fo high as thflee feet in 
Europe; the items become hard, Jike the reed or Indian 
corn, they.branch out, and produce feveral (pikes of flow¬ 
ers. Linnaeus fays this is perennial, and the foregoing 
fpecies annual. Native of America. 
Coix agreftis, or fmall Job’s tears : culm entirely 
Ample; leaves fmooth and even; feeds roundifli. Culms 
three feet high, round, folid, jointed, fmooth, riling from 
a perennial creeping root. Native of Amboina, Ceylon, 
and Cochin-china. 
C O IC 
Propagation and Culture. Thofe who are defirous to cul¬ 
tivate the' firft fort in England, may procure the feed s 
from Portugal; thefe ftsould be fawn on a moderate hot¬ 
bed in the ipring, to bring the plants forward, and after¬ 
ward tranfplant them on a warm border, allowing each 
two feet room at lead, and when the plants have taken 
root, they will require no farther care, but to keep them 
clean from weeds. Thefe will flower about midfummer, 
and in warm feafons ; the feeds will ripen at Michaelmas. 
The fecond fpecies will not bear the open air in England, 
but muft be plunged into the bark-bed, where, jt will 
flourifti, and produce ripe feeds the fecond year; it may 
be continued longer, if delired. 
COKE (Sir Edward), lord chief juftice of England, 
and one of the molt eminent lawyers this kingdom has 
produced, was defeended from an ancient family in Nor¬ 
folk, and born at Mileham in that county in 1549. His 
father was Robert Coke, efq. of Mileham ; his mother 
Winifred, daughter and coheirefs of William Knightley, 
of Margrave Knightley in Norfolk. At ten years of age, 
he was lent to Norwich fchool; and from thence removed 
to Trinity-college in Cambridge. He remained in the 
univerfity about four years, and -went from thence to 
Cliftord’s-inn in London, and the year after was.entered 
a ftudent of the Inner Temple. The firft proof he gave 
of the acutenefs of his penetration and the folidity of his 
judgment, was his dating the cook's cafe of the Temple, 
(which had before puzzled the whole houfe,) fo clearly 
and exaftly, that it was noticed and admired by the 
bench. It is not at ali improbable, that this might occa- 
(ion his being fo early called to the bar at the end of only 
fix years, which in thofe times w'as conjidered very ex¬ 
traordinary. He liimfelf has informed us, that the firft 
caufe he moved in the court of kirfg’s bench, was in Tri¬ 
nity term 1578; when he was counfel for the Rev. Ed¬ 
ward Denny, vicar of Northingham in Norfolk, in an 
aftion of fcandaliim ?n a gnat urn brought againft him by- 
Henry lord Cromwell. About this time he was appointed 
reader of Lyon’s-inn, when his learned leftures were much 
attended; andfo continued for three years. Soon after 
which he married Bridget, daughter and coheirefs of John 
Prefton, efq. with a fortune of 30,000b By this marriage 
he became allied to fome of the nobleft families in the 
kingdom, and preferments flowed in upon him apace. 
The cities of Coventry and Norwich chofe him their re¬ 
corder-, the county of Norfolk one of their reprefenta- 
tives in parliament; and the houfe of commons their 
fpeaker, in the thirty-fifth year of queen Elizabeth, The 
queen alfo appointed him folicitor-general in 1592, and 
attorney-general the year following. Some time after he 
loft his wife, by whom he had ten children ; and in 1598 
he married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas lord Burleigh, 
afterwards earl of Exeter, and relift: of fir William Hat¬ 
ton. As this marriage was the fource of perplexity to 
both parties, fo the celebration of it was marked by an 
unfortunate and untoward circumftance. There had been 
the. lame year fo much notice taken of irregular mar¬ 
riages, that archbifhop Whitgift had fignifted to the 
biftiops of his province, to profecute ftriftiy all that (hould 
either offend in point of time, place, or form. Now, 
whether Coke looked upon his own or the lady’s quality, 
and their being married with the confent of the family, 
as fetting them above fuch reftriftions, or whether he did 
not confider at all about it, certain it is that they were 
married in a private houfe without either banns or li¬ 
cence : upon which he and his new-married lady, the 
miniffer who officiated, Thomas lord Burleigh, and feve¬ 
ral other perfons, were profecuted in the archbiftiop’s 
court; but, upon their fubmiflion by their proxies, they 
were abfolved from excommunication, and the penalties 
confequent upon it; becaule, lays the record, they had 
offended, not out of contumacy, but through ignorance 
of the law in that point. The affair of greateft moment, 
in which as attorney-general he had a fhare in this reign, 
was the profecution of the earls of Effex and Southamp- 
- „ ton. 
