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Show co co them in this Place, but refer the Reader thereto, COMPOUND FLOWERS, are fuch as Confift of many Florets or Semi-florets, or both together, which make up what is commonlycall’d one whole Flower. CONE: A Cone isa hard dry Seed-Veffel of a conical Figure, confifting of feveral Woody Parts (and is for the moft part fcaly) adhering clofely together, and feparating when cente. H, A, Perennial co Canary Bindweed with foft hoary Leaves, and whitifh-purple Flowers. 11, ConvoLvuLus ; major, beptaphyllos, flore fulphureo odorato Jpeciofiffimo. Sloan. Cat Fam. Great American Bindweed, with {pe- cious yellow fweet-fcented Flowers, commonly call’d Spanith Arbor-Vine, or Spanith Wood- bind. 12. Convotvutus ; Americanus, folio be. dere, flore coccineo minore. American Bind. weed, with Ivy Leaves, and fmall fcarlee Flowers. This is the Quamoclit, Americana, CONIFEROUS TREES, are fuch as bear folio bedera, flare Coccineo, of Commeline’s rare ripe. Cones 5 as, the Cedar of Lebanon, Fir, Pine, &c. CONSOLIDA Major ; vide Symphytum. CONSOLIDA Media; vide Bugula. CONSOLIDA MINIMA; vidBellis, CONSOLIDA Regalis; vide Delphinium. CONVOLVULUS, [of Convolvendo, Lat. v, 7 rolling roun ‘: d, or wrapping or winding about.] Bindweed. The Charafers are+ ; : walls. It hath, for the moft Part, traila ing Stalks: The Le es grow alternately upon the Branches : And the whole Plant, for the moft part Ui ah deal 7 , abounds with a Milky Fuice: The Flower conjifts of one entire Leaf, fap'dlike a Bell, whofe Mouth or Brimis, for the moft part, wide ly /pread and expanded: The Ovary becomes a roundifh memb ra1c 1, for the moft part, wrap p?d Flower-cup 5 and is generally ato three Cells, mS, each each conta contaiining ning on, one angular i The Species are ; 1. Convona vurus; ee vulg ear; s a majo jr albus ,fommon great white Bind. - vilgarly call’ Bear-bin d, : 2 Convotvutus ; mino r, arvenfis, flore rofeo 8. Lef fer field Bindweed, with a Rofe. eee Flower, vulg arly call’d Gravel Bind ¢ ohONVOLVU h eal. mariit}: } imus, noftr as, rotu;n“yous, Mor. Hijt. Common Sea Bindweed with round Leaves, or Soldanella Oficin i 4. Convotvutus ; marinus Catharti cus, folio rotundo, flore purpureo, Plum , American purging Sen 1 2, Sea 1 Bind weed , with a roun d Leaf, and Rea . purple Flower, a5. Con o v e Ss purp purpu ureu r s, 5 ms folio Foli fubrotundo, ee Lonvolvuius, withroundifh Leaves, and purple Flowers. > 6. Serene Lndicus, Hore albo. H. ar, . R . vs ian Bind . ; ‘ weed, with whit e Flowers, 7. ONVOLVULUS 5 Indicus, flore albo-pur puraloenté, Jemine albo. H. R, Monf. Indi an Bind weed , with whitith- Purp es F ers, and whititee le Flow daeee 3 Indi cus, flore amplo rofeo. Flowers » with large Rofe-c olour’d fe eee cerulens , Aederaceus, feu ont iuetae e! Indian Bindweed, copa Canarienfis, femp ervincano, flore ex albo purpural- Plants. 13. ConvoLvutus; Lujitanicus, flore cyaneo, Brof. Portugal Bindweed, with fine blue Flowers, vulgarly call’d Convolvulus Minor. 14. ConvoLvu.us; Lujitanicus flore & femine albo. Boerb. Ind. alt. Portugal Bindweed , with white Flowers and Seeds, vulgarly call’d Convolvulus minor flore albo. 15. Convotyutus; major, reéius, Creticus, argenteus, Mor. Hift. Great upright Bindwee d from Cr with Silver-colour’d Leaves, 16. Convotvutus; linarie folio, affurgens. Tourn, Upright Bindweed, with Toad-fax Leaves. The firft of thefe Species is a very trouble fome Weedin Gardens, efpecially under Hedges, or amongft the Roots of Trees, where, byits creeping Roots, it increafes very faft ; and the Plant twifting itfelf about whatever Plants, &e, are near it, will fpread as far above-ground, over-bearing whatever Plant it comes near, The only Remedy that I know of to deftroy this Plant, is by often hoeing of it down; which in one Year’s Time (if carefully per- form’d, and often repeated) will intirely deftroy it: For the whole Plant abounds witha milky Juice ; and whenever the Topis It is very fubje& to emit fo creat a cut off, Quantity of its Juice, as to deftroy the whole Branch to the Top ; which (as the Gardeners exprefs it) Is bleeding to Death, : The fecond fort, of which there Varieties of different-colour’d Flowers,are great worfe Weedthan the former ; for theis ftilla Roots of this Kind do infinuate themfelyes into the Gravel many Feet deep, and greatly under-ground, rifing andfpreading its increafe Branches Over every thing near it. ‘This I know no other Method to deftroy, than Hoeing often, or pulling it up by Hand , which will, in Time, weaken and fubdue it - But this can’t be done under three or four Years, if attended withall pads ree (efpecially in a dry, fandy, or poets aa But in a wet Soil it is foon oy'd; for the Roots rot with foo much Moifture are very fubject to in Winter. The thirdfort is found in plenty upon gravelly or fandy Shores where the falt the Water overflows in many Parts of England. This is a ftrong Purger, and as fuch is often Medicine, This Plant, if fown in a us’d in Garden, will feldom laft above a Year or The fourth Sort is found in two. great Plenty upon the Sea-fhores of America, and is by the Inhabitants us’d as a Purge. The Seeds of this CoO this Plant was brought from the Bahama The thirteenth and fourteenth Sorts are Tlands by Mr. Catesby, and hath beenrais’d alfo Annuals; but thefe do not climb as the in feveral Gardens in England ; but it is very others : The Seeds of thefe Plants may be tender, and not to be kept through a Winter fown in open Borders in Afarch, where they without a Stove. will come up very well, and maybe afterwards The fifth, fixth, feventh, eighth, and ninth tranfplanted to a greater Diftance, to adorn Sorts are annua], and are propagated in Gar- the Borders of a Pleafure-Garden, Thefe dens for the Beauty of their Flowers: 'Thefe Plants trail upon the Ground, if they are not are commonly fown on a Hot-bed in March, fupported, and do produce their beautiful and afterwards tranfplanted into Borders in the Flowers thro’ moft of the Summer Months. open Air, where being fupported by tall Stakes, The fifteenth Sort is an abiding Plant,which they will twift round them, and arife to a with us doth grow upright to -be three or four great Height, producing great Quantities of Feet high; the Branches are fet very thick, fine large Bell-fhap’d Flowers, and will con- with long narrow Silver-colour’d Leaves, and tinue flowering until the Froft prevent them. the Flowers grow upon the Tops of the The,femay all be rais’d in the open Ground, Branches in an Umbel. Thefe Flowers are except the ninth, which ifit is not brought fometimes fucceeded byangular Seeds like the forward in the Spring by a Hot-bed, feldom other Kinds : It may be propagated by plantproduces ripe Seeds ; the reft are very hardy, ing Cuttings in any of the Summer Months, and maybe fown to cover Seats, Arbours, Pa- obferving to water and fhade them until they lifado’s, &¢. which they willdo in a fhort Time, have taken Root ; at which Time they muft and continue very handfome until the Froft be planted in Pots fill’d with frefh fandy Soii, deftroys them: The feveral Varieties, when and mutt be helter’d in Winter from the Frofts, intermix’d, make a beautiful Appearance, but but require open free Air at all Times when theninth Sort is by far the moft beautiful of the Weatheris mild. them all. The fixteenth Sort is a perennial Plant, The tenth Sort is an abiding Plant, and re- which increafes greatly byits creeping Roots : quires a Green-houfe in Winter: This will This grows erect about eight or ten Inches grow to a confiderable Height, and muft be high, and produces Fiowers fomewhat like iupported by ftrong Stakes: It flowers almoft thofe ofour leffer wild Kind, but feldom proevery Yeat withus, but feldom produces good duces good Seeds with us; but the Plant may Seeds in England. ‘This may be propagated by be abundantly multiplied by parting the Roots: laying downthe tender Branchesin the Spring, It is very hardy, and loves a light Soil. which by Autumn will have fufficient Roots to be taken off. Thefe muft be planted in Pots CONYZA ; [of Kordl, Gr. a Flea ; becaufe fil'd with frefh light Earth, andfhelter’d from the Leaves being hung up, drive away Fleas, Frofts in Winter, but muft have as muchfree as Diofcorides fays : lt is alfo call'd Baccharis, Air as poffible in mild Weather, and require of Bacchus ; becaufe it breathes out a vifcous frequent Waterings. Scent.] Flea-bane. The eleventh Sort is very common in the The Charaéfers are ; hotter Parts of America, where it is known by It bath undivided Leaves, which, for the the Name of Spanifh Arbor Vine : It is by the moft part, are glutinous, and bavea ftrong Scent : Inhabitants planted to cover Arbors and Seats, The Cup of the Flower is, for the mof? part, for which Purpofe it is very proper ; forin Sealy, and of a cylindrical Form: The Floweris thofe Countries one of thefe Plants will grow composd of many Florets, which are fucceeded to the Lengthoffixty or a hundred Feet, and by Seeds which have a douny Subjtance adproduce great Quantities of Side-branches, by bering to them which Means, ina very fhort Time, it will The Species are ; cover a large Seat: This Plant produces in 1. Conyza 3 major, vulgaris. C. B. ComAmerica great Quantities of large fragrant monGreat Flea-bane. yellow Flowers, which are each of them fuc2. Conyza ; minor, flore globofo. C. B. ceeded bythree large angular Seeds. It is a Leffer Flea-bane, with globular Flowers. very tender Plant with us, and can’t be pre3. Conyza ; Americana, Lamii folio. Tourn. ferv'd but in warm Stoves throughthe Winter, American Flea-bane, with Leaves of the Dead nor hath it as yet produc’d any Flowers in Nettle. England that T know of : It rifes eafily from 4. Conyza; mas, Theophrafti, major Diofthe Seeds, if they are fown in a Hot-bed, and coridis, C. B. The Greater Flea-bane of Dio/will grow toa great Length in one Summer; coridis. and altho’ I have fometimes preferv’d it for 5. Conyza ; Cretica, fruticofa, folio molli, two Years, and the Plant has {pread to a great candidiffimo & tomentofo. Flor, Shrubby FleaLength, yet I could never perceive any At- bane from. Crete, with foft downy white tempt to flower, Leaves. The twelfth Sort isan annual Plant, and There are feveral other Species of thefe mutt be rais’d and manag’d, as was directed Plants, which are preferv’d in the curious for the fifth, fixth, &c. This produces {mall Botanick Gardens ; but as they are Plants of Scarlet Flowers witha Jong Tube; which oc- little Ufe or Beauty, I fhall omit mentioning cafion’d Monf, Tournefort to range it amongft of them here. the Quamoclits. "This Plant is in great Plenty The firft of thefe Species is found wild upon in Carolina. dry chalky Hillsin divers Parts of England, Te and |