| CORDED VEINS. 
out singly ;. they are composed of five small, yel- 
low petals, and a great number of stamina sur- 
rounding the oblong germen, which is situated 
in the centre of the flower, and afterward turns 
to a rough, swelling capsule, two inches long, 
ending in a point, opening in four cells, filled 
with angular, greenish seeds. This plant flowers 
in July and August; and the seeds ripen in au- 
tumn.”—The showy, straggling, many-stemmed, 
|| crumpled-leaved, yellow-flowered, hardy, decidu- 
ous shrub, called by Linnzeus Corchorus japoni- 
| | cus, and by De Candolle Kerria japonica, seems to 
be pretty generally known among gardeners and 
country amateurs only by its specific name Ja- 
| ponica. It was introduced from Japan in 1700; 
| and is now very common. It usually has a height 
of 3 or 4 feet ; and, in spite of its straggling and 
untidy habit, it wins much favour in consequence 
of making a show of its small rosaceous-looking 
flowers throughout a great part of the year. 
CORDED VEINS. The thickened and in- 
flamed absorbents along the course of the veins 
| during the existence of farcy in the horse. 
CORDGRASS. See Spartina. 
CORDIA. A genus of evergreen, tropical 
shrubs and trees, constituting the type of the 
natural order Oordiaceze. This order has a close 
_resemblance to the Convolvulacez, and was for- 
merly included in the Boraginex; but is readily 
distinguished by its habit, its dichotomous style, 
and its plaited cotyledons. All its plants are 
tropical and dendritic ; their leaves are alternate, 
without stipules, and usually very rough; their 
| inflorescence is gyrate, their calyx five-toothed, 
and their corolla regular ; and their fruit is a 
drupe, with the cotyledons crumpled or folded in 
|| plaits. The genera comprised in this order are 
cordia, patagonula, bourreria, ehretia, and var- 
ronia; and the number of species at present in 
British hothouses is about fifty. 
'| ‘The genus cordia comprises about 60 species ; 
and upwards of one-third of these have been 
brought to Britain. The introduced species vary 
in natural height from two yards to about 70 
feet ; all are beautiful; several constitute exten- 
sive and imposing ornaments of their native re- 
gions ; seven or eight contribute their timber to 
carpentry and other arts; one, C. obliqua, is used 
in Mysore for the manufacture of cordage from 
|| its bark; and three, CO. obliqua, C. myxa, and C. 
| sebestena, produce esculent, mucilaginous, succu- 
lent fruit, popularly known as Sebesten plums. 
|| One of the species seems to have formerly been 
confounded with Aguilaria malaccensis; and a 
small piece of the wood of several, like the tim- 
ber of that exquisitely fragrant tree, when heated 
in the manner of frankincense, perfumes a whole 
house with a most agreeable odour. See the 
article Auoz-TrEE. The drupes of C. myzxa and 
C. sebestena, were formerly used in medicine, and 
might often be seen in the shops of London under 
es name of Assyrian plums. 
CORDIAL. A mixture of aromatic and stim- 
I. 
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ulating drugs. It is a kind of medicine of nearly 
the same nature to a horse as ardent spirits are 
to a human being; and, in consequence of being 
administered too frequently or in excited states 
of the system, it is the means of debilitating or 
killing many a fine animal. A horse thoroughly 
exhausted by labour and disinclined to take any 
food,—or a draught-horse over-worked, half- 
starved, and somewhat inclined to stagger,—or a 
hard-worked, old horse who was accustomed to 
receive occasional stimulants when young, may 
derive considerable benefit from a cordial; but a 
horse in almost any other condition, especially 
one who is in any degree fevered, might nearly 
as well receive a smart dose of some active poison. 
Cattle are not so readily liable to injury from 
cordials as horses, and may, in a greater number 
of instances, experience benefit from their effect ; 
yet even they ought not to receive them in three- 
fourths or more of the cases in which most cow- 
doctors administer them. A proper cordial ball 
for a horse may consist of two ounces of any of 
the following mixtures,—first, 4 oz. of cummin 
seeds, 4 oz. of anise seeds, 4 oz. of caraway seeds, 
2 oz. of ginger, and enough of treacle to work 
these ingredients into a mass; second, 4 oz. of 
anise seeds, 4 oz. of caraway seeds, 4 oz. of sweet 
fennil seeds, 4 oz. of liquorice powder, 14 oz. of 
powdered ginger, 14 oz. of powdered cassia, and 
a sufficient quantity of honey; third, 4 oz. of 
cummin seeds, 4 oz. of coriander seeds, 4 oz. of 
caraway seeds, 1 oz. of grains of paradise, 4 oz. 
of powdered cassia, 2 drachms of cardamom seeds, 
2 drachms of saffron, 4 oz. of liquorice dissolved 
in white wine, and a sufficient quantity of syrup 
of saffron. But the last of these is very power- 
fully stimulating; and ought never to be admin- 
istered except in an extreme case. 
cordial ball for a cow may consist of 1 oz. of 
powdered caraway seeds, } oz. of powdered gen- 
tian, $ 0z. of powdered ginger, and 20 drops of 
essence of peppermint; and a proper cordial 
drink for a cow, to be administered morning and 
evening, may consist of one-half the quantity of 
these ingredients, in a pint of warm ale and a 
pint of thin gruel. 
CORDS, or Gur-Tin, A disease in the intes- 
tines of oxen. It consists in the strangulating 
tie of some part of the intestines,—usually of the 
small intestine,—either by the spermatic cord, 
which had retracted into the abdomen in conse- 
quence of unskilful castration, or of an adventi- 
tious membrane unnaturally and diseased formed 
in consequence of the use of mouldy, unwhole- 
some fodder, or of frequent stressing of the lower 
part of the abdomen. Some of its symptoms are 
disinclination to food, striking the abdomen with 
the hind feet, occasionally stretching out the body 
in so extraordinary a manner as to give the back 
a concave curvature, voiding feces in small quan- 
tities, mixed with mucus and blood, and evincing 
excessive pain when the hand of the surgeon is 
introduced into the rectum. A dangerous and 
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