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Show Me Ci CICUTARIA ; [is fo call’d from its Likes fefs to Cicuta.] Baitard Hemlock. The Charatfers are ; CIRCULATIONofthe Sap ; vide Sap, CIRRI; Are thofe fine Strings, or Hairs, The Rootis large and thick: The Stalks are by which fome Plants faften themfelves,in thick, hollow, and joynted . The Leaves are like the greater Hemlock, but are thicker : The Seeds are long, thick, gibbous, andfbaped [omewhat like a Half-moou, and very much chaunelled. ; The Species are ; a. CrcutariA ; Jatifolia, fatida. C. B. Broad-leav’d ftinking Baftard Hemlock. 2. Crcuraria ; fetidiffima, foliis atrovirentibus. Feffieu. ‘The moft ftinking Baftard Hemlock, with dark green Leaves. Thefe two Plants are feldom cultivated, unlefs in Botanick Gardens: They are of a very ftrong rank Smell, and are thought to contain a poifonous Quality. Whoever hath a mind to cultivate them, fhould fowtheir Seeds in a moift Soil in the Spring of the Year; and whenthe Plants are come up, they fhould be planted out at about two Feet Diftance, for they {pread their Roots and Branchesveryfar on either Side: ‘The fecond Year after fowing they will produce ripe Seeds, but the Roots will abide many Yearsafter. order to theit Support, as Juy, &c. CIRSIUM ; [is fo called of Kigoos, a Circle about the -fartheft or laft Inteftine, i. e. the Hemorrboides, or Inflammation of the Anus; becaufe it is wont to be ufed to cure that Diftemper.] Soft or Gentle Thiftle, The Charaéfers are ; It bath Leaves and Flowers very like thofe of the Thiftle, but the Spines upon the Leaves are fofter, and the Cup of the Floweris deftitute of Spines. The Species are ; 1, Cirstum, uglicum. Ger. The Englip Soft or Gentle Thiftle. 2. Cirstum ; Britannicum, Clufii, repens. FB. The great Englifo Soft Gentle, or Melancholy ‘Thiftle. 3. Cirstum; maximum, Afphodeli vadice. CB. The greateft d/phodel-rosted Gentle Thiftle. 4. Crrstum ; Mmaculis argenteis mnotatum, Tourn. The White-{potted Gentle Thiftle. There are feveral other Species of this Plant, which are preferved in curious Gardens of EEL eEes CINARA ; vide Artichoke. CINERARIA ; vide Jacobea. Plants; but as there is little Ufe or Beauty in them, fo I fhall pafs them over inthis Place. The twofirft Species here named, grow wild in England ; the other two are Strangers, and only preferved for Variety in fome few Gardens: They mayall be propagated by fowing their Seeds in the Spring, in almoft any Soil, but they require an openSituation ; and when the Plants come up, they fhould be feparated chantments.] Enchanter’s Night-fhade. to about two Feet Diftance, for they {pread The Characters are ; very far, efpecially the two firft, which are It bath a perennial creeping Root: The terrible Creepers under-ground, and therefore Leaves, which are whole, and foaped fomewhat fhould not be placed near other Plants, left like thofe of Night-fhade, are placed alternately they over-bear and deftroy them. Thethree upon the Branches: The Flower confis of two firft Sorts are alfo increafed by parting their Leaves, which reft upon a two-leaved Empale* Roots ; but the laft is an Annual, and muft ment: The Flowers are fucceeded by a Pear- either be fown every Spring, or the Seeds fufSoaped Fruit, which is burry on the Out-fide fered to fhed upon the Ground, whichwill and divided into two Cells ; in each of which is come up without any Trouble. CIRCEA ; [Is faid to be fo call’d from Circe, the famous Enchantrefs, faid to have inchanted U/y/fes and his Companions: Boerhaave fuppofes it to be fo call’d, becaufe the Fruit of this Plant takes hold of Peoples Cloaths, and by this means draws them toit, as the Enchantrefs Circe was wont to'do by her In- contained, for the moft part, two oblong Seeds. The Species are ; 1. Crrc#a; Lutetiana. Lob. Icon. En- chanter’s Night-fhade. 2. Circwa ; minima. Col. The Smalleft Enchanter’s Night-fhade. Thefirft of thefe Plants is very commonin moift fhadyPlaces, and under Hedges, in moft Parts of England; but the fecond hath not been found wild with us, tho’ it grows in Plenty in the Woods near the Hague, where I gather'd it, and brought it into England, where it continues to retain its Difference from the common Sort, notwithftanding fome People have fuppofed it to be the fame. They are both great Runners in a Garden, for which Reafon they fhould be planted (by thofé who would keep them for Variety) in fome abject fhady Part of the Gard Things will grow. ed eoae CISTUS ; [is fo call’d from KisG- or KiaG, Gr. Ivy, becaufe the Antients believed the Leaves of this Plant did refemble the GroundFuy ;_ or becaufe its little feminal Veffel is in- clofed in a Cité orlittle Cheft, as it were] Rock Rofe. The Charaéters are ; It bath the Appearance of a Tree: The Leaves are produced by Pairs oppofite uponthe Branches: The Cup of the Flower confips of three or five Leaves: The Flower confifs of many Leaves, which are expanded in Form of Rofe, having abundance of Stamina or Zhreads in the Middle: From the Center of the Cup arifes the Ovary, which is rough and hemi({pherical, and becomes a roundifo or pointed Veffel, cov Sifting of many Cells, in which are contained, many {mall Seeds. Cl Cl The plantedeither into fmall Pots, or a Border of good light Earth, at about ten Inches Diftance x. Crstus ; mas, folio oblongo incano. C. B. every Way: If they are planted into Pots, The Male Cifus or Rock Rofe, with oblong they fhould be remov’d under a common Hot= sles bed Frame in Winter, to defend them from hoary Leaves. 2. Cistus; mas, major, folio rotundiori. the Froft, which may be hurtful to them while young, if they are not protected from it; but Rock or + B. The greateft Male Citus, they fhould have as much open free Air as Rofe, with roundifh Leaves. 2. Cistus; mas, folio, breviore. C. B. poffible in mild Weather, and will require to be often refrefh’d with Water. Short-leav’d Male Ciffus, or Rock Rofe. In the Spring following, thefe Plants may 4. Crstus 3 was, foliis undulatis, €3 crifpis. Tourn. Male Ciftus, or Rock Rofe, with wav'd be turned out of the Pots, with all the Earth preferv'd to their Roots, and planted in the and curl’d Leaves. g. Crstus ; Ladanifera, Mon/pelienfium. Places where they are to remain, (for they CB. The Gum-bearing Ciftus, or Rock Rofe are bad Plants’ to remove when grown old) obferving to give them nowand then little of Montpelier. 6 Cistus; Ladanifera, Hifpanica, falicis Water, until they have taken frefh Roots ; folio, flore candido. Tourn. Spanifh Gum-bear- after which Time they will require no farther ir 2 , ot Rock Rofe, with Willow Leaves Care than to train them upright in the manner you would have them grow : But thofe Plants and white Flowers. 7. Crstus ; Ladanifera, Hifpanica, falicis which were at firft planted into a Border in slio, flore albo, macula punicante tufignito. the open Ground, fhould be arched over, and urn. Spanifh Gum-bearing Citas; or Rock covered with Mats in frofty Weather, during Rofe, with Willow Leaves, and white Flowers the firft Winter, but may be tran{planted abroad the fuceeeding Spring: In removing {potted with Purple. s; Ledon, latifolium, Creticum. of thefe Plants, you fhould be careful to pret broad leav’d Ciffus, or Rock ferve as much’ Earth about their Roots as you can; and if the Seafon fhould prove hot and 9.Crstus ; Ledon, foliis populi nigra, major. dry, you muft water and fhade them, until The Species are; CB. Large fweet Cifus, or Rock Rofe, with black Poplar Leaves ro. Crstus ; Ledon, foliis populi nigra, minor. C. B. Small fweet Ciftus, or Rock Rofe, with black Poplar Leaves. 11. Cistus ; Ladanifera, Cretica, flore purureo, Tour. Cor. Sweet Gum-bearing Ci/fus, or Ruck Rofe from Crete, with purple Flowers. rious Kinds of thefe Plants are very nts to a Garden ;_ their Flowers they have taken frefh Root ; after which they will require no other Culture than was before directed. Thefe Plants may alfo be propagated, by planting Cuttings of them upon a gentle warm Bed in May or Fune, keeping them fhaded with Mats, and frequently refrefhed with Wateruntil they have taken Root, which will be in about two Months Time; when you may tranfplant them into Pots filled with good sre producd in great Plenty all over the frefh light Earth, which fhould be fet ina Shrubs, which tho’ but ofa fhort Duration, fhady Place until they have taken Root, and yet are fucceeded byfrefh ones almoft every then may be expofed to the open Sun until Day for above two Months fucceffively. Thete Oober, when you fhould remove them into Flowers are many of them about the Bignefs Shelter the firft Winter; but the fucceeding of a middling Rofe, but fingle, and ofdiffe- Spring you may plant them abroad, as was rent Colours; the Plant continues green before directed for the Seedling Plants. The feventh Sort is by much the moft throughout the Year. The firft five and the eighth Sort will endure beautiful of all thefe Cifus’s: The Flowers, the Cold of our common Winters in the open which are as big as a handfome Rofe, is of a Ground, provide sy are planted in a dry fine White, with a deep purple Spot on the Soil, and in a Sit n where they maybe Bottom of each Leaf. This Plant alfo abounds fhelter’d from the cold Winds, and will rife to with a {weet glutinous Liquor, which exfides the Height offive or fix Feet, and may be thro’ the Pores of the Leaves in fo plentiful eafily train’d to form handfome Heads. ‘Thefe a manner, in hot Weather, that the Surfaces being intermix’d with flowering Shrubs of of the Leaves are covered therewith. From the fame Growth, in {mall Wildernefs Quar- this Plane (Clufivs thinks) might be gathered ters, 9c. add greatly to the Variety, and their great Quantities of the Ladanum, which is Flowers continuing to fhew themfelves thro’ ufed in Medicine, in the Woods in Spzin, the createft Part of the Summer, renders them where he faw vaft Quantities of this Shrub worthy of a Place in the beft Gardens. ‘The growing. But it is from the eleventh Sort, which ther Sorts are commonly preferv’d in Pots, and hons’d in Winter, tho’ I believe moft of Monfieur Zournefort fays, the Greeks, in the them might be brought to ftand abroad in Places that are well defended from the Cold. _ Thefe Sorts may all be propagated, by fowing their Seeds upon a gentle Hot-bed, or on a warm Border in the common Ground in March ; and when the Plants are come up about three Inches high, they fhould be trani- Archipelago, gather this fweet Gum: Inthe doing of which (Be/Jonius fays) they make ufe of an Inftrument like a Rake, without Teeth, which they call Ergaftirs : To this are tied many ‘Thongs of raw and untanned Lea- ther, which they rub gently upon the Buthes, thar produce the Ladanum, that fo that liquid Q4q Moifture |