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The fpecies of crown imperial enumerated by Mr. Tournefort, are thefe : I. The common croiun imperial. 2. The crown imperial, with beautiful red flowers. 7,. The crown imperial, with pale, faint, yellow flowers. 4. The crown imperial, with yellow ftriated flowers. 5. The crown imperial, with plain, deep, yellow flowers. 6. The great crown imperial, 7. The late flowering crown imperial, with very large leaves,^ and deep purple flowers. 8. The many flowered own imperial, with a broad flatted ftalk. 9. The croiun imperial, with a double cir- cle of flowers. 1 0. The crown imperial, with variegated flow • ers. 1 r. The double- flowered crozvn imperial. 1 2. Thecrown imperial, without fmell. 13. The branched crown imperial ; and, 14. The monftrous crown imperial of John Bauhine. Town. Inft. p. 372. Corona jb'is. bee $.ws-fiower.

CORONARIA, in botany, the name given byLinnams to a genus of plants, ufually confounded by other authors under the name of lythnis. See Lychnis coronaria. CORONATORE eligendo, a writ, which, after the death or difebarge of any coroner, is dire&ed to the fherifF, out of the chancery, to call together the freeholders of the county, for the choice of a new coroner, to certify into chmcery both the eledion, and the name of the party eleaed, and' to give him his oath. See Weftra, 1. 10. Fitzb. Nat. Br. fol. 163. and Reg of Writs, fol. 177. CORONEOLA, in botany, a name given by fome authors to ' the hfimachia, or purple willow herb, vulgarly called with us codlings and cream. Ger. Emac. Ind. 2. CORONILLA, in botany, the name of a genus of plants, the characters of which are thefe : the flower is of the papiliona- ceous kind, and the piftil which arifes from the cup, finally be- comes a pod compofed of many parts joined together by a iort of articulation, each containing an oblong feed. The fpecies of coronilla enumerated by Mr. Tournefort are thefe: 1. The fmall coronilla, called by fome the leaft co- lutea. 2. The colutea with a fungous, broom-like ftalk. 3. The fea coronilla, with blueifli green leaves. 4. The coro- nilla with thick pods, and large feeds. 5. The fitvery,. Cre- tic coronilla. 6. The fmalleft coronilla. 7. The herbaceous coronilla, with variegated flowers. And, 8. The herbaceous coronilla, with double, variegated flowers. Town. Inft. p. 650. There havs been pieces of amber found, with the pennated leaves of coronilla included in them, and as elegantly ex- panded as the moft curious botanift could have expected it, for prefcrving them in his hortus ficcus. Breynius gives us an account of one of thefe pieces of amber, in which the middle part of one of thefe leaves was thus elegantly pre- ferved; he examined the fpecimen with the greateft accu- racy, But could not find the leaft mark of fraud or deceit in it, and is very particular in the defcription of the piece, and .in the difpoiition of the leaf in it. Mercatus in his Metallothcca Vaticana has an entire leaf of the fame plant figured ; but his has got "into difrepute, by being; placed among fome other things which muft have been fictitious, fuch as a fmall fiih, a water newt, or eft, and a compleat frog. Thefe were certainly let in by art between two pieces of amber which were afterwards nice- ly clofed together again ; but the figure of the leaf gains credit from the obfervati- n of Breynius : to this it is to be added, that the coronilla is a fhrub commonly wild in Pruffia, where amber is produced. Phil. Tranf. N° 396. CORONOPUS, buckjhorn, in botany, the name of a genus of plants which have flowers and fruits like thofe of the plan- tains, but differ from them by having their leaves divided into feveral fegments, whereas thofe of the plantains are for the moft part fmooth at the eJge, and never more than lightly notched.

The 'fpecies of coronopus enumerated by Mr. Tournefort are thefe: 1. The common buck/born plantain, fo called from the leaves being fo divided as to refemble the horns of that creature. 2. The broad-leaved hairy coronopus. 3. The narrow- leaved, deeply-jagged coronopus. 4. The fmalleft, hairy, fea coronopus. 5. The fea rofe coronopus. Town. Inft, p. 128. CQRPUS Chrifti <%s a feaft held always on the next thurf- day after Trinity funday. It was inftituted in the year 1264, in honour of the blefl'ed facrament, to which alfo a college in Oxford js. dedicated. We find it mentioned in 3Z Hen. VIII. c. 21. By which ftatute Trinity term is appointed for ever to begin the morrow after this feaft. CORRECTION, (Cycl.) in the manege, isufed for aids given

with legerity. See Chastisements. Correction, corrcEtia, in rhetoric, the fame with what is other- wife called epanorthofts. See Epanorthosis, Cycl. CORRECTOR (Ccl.) — Corrector of the Jlaple, an offi- cer, or clerk, belonging to the ftaple, who makes and records ' the bargains of merchants there made, anno 27. Edw. III. Stat. 2. c. 2/ 3 and 7.^« The Romans called them ?ncrfarii. CORRIDOR, in fortification. See Curidor, Cycl. CORRODi NTS, corrockniia, in medical writers, is applied to filch things as eat, confume, or deftroy excrefcent flefii. Blan- card. in voc.

CORRODY. Seethe article Corodv. CORROSIB1LITY, ) ., .. e _ C0RRO3IVENESS, j inchem "V. SeeCoRRosiOKs Cyd A

CORRUGATOR (Cycl.) — CoRRUGatoris crdo extericr.'m an- atomy, a name given by Santorhu to certain fafficuli of th^ great zygomatic mufcle, running under the fiefliy part of the lower lip. See the articles Labium aitd.cm, and Zygoma- tic us major. Corrug at or fupcrci/ii mufculus^ in anatomy, a name given by Albinus, and by Douglafs, and fome others,* to one of the muf- cles of the face, called alfo by Douglafs the frontalis verus, and by Winflow the fupcr-iliaris. Corrugatoris inferior ordo^n anatomy,a name given by San - torini, and fome others, to that mufcle of the mouth called by Albinus orbicularis oris, by Cowper confiriclor labiorum ; and by Douglafs fphintler labiorum. CORRUPTICOL^, in church hiftory, heretics who main- - tained that Cbrift is ftill corruptible, and iiands in need of meat, drink, and reft. See Hojj'm. Lex. in voc. CORSOIDES, in natural hiftory, a name given by fome authors to a fpecies of agate of a greyifh white, full of ilender veins of a clearer white, refembling hairs. It is one of the German agates, and fometimes feen among our jewellers, cut into tops of (huff boxes, and other toys, but is not much efteemed. CORTEX, (Cycl.) the rind or bark oftrees. The wounds of the bark, and its feparations from the wood, whether natural, or experimentally made, are eafily cured, and made to unite again, by proper care. If feclions be made in the rinds of the afh, and fycamore, of a fquare figure, three fides cut, and the fourth uncut, and the whole be afterwards bound round with a pack- thread, it will all unite again, only leaving a fear in each of the fides where it was cut. If feveral parts of ftie bark of ei- ther of thefe trees be cut off, and entirely feparated from tb& tree, fome fhallower, leaving a part of the bark on, and others deeper, to the wood itfelf; thefe pieces being again put in- to their places, and bound on with packthread, will not indeed unite, but a frefh bark will grow in their places, and thruffc them away ; but if they be rirft carefully laid on in the exact direction in which they originally grew, and then the whole part beyond the wound on every fide covered with a large plai- ner of diachylon, or the like, and this bound over with pack- thread to keep all firmly in their places, the pieces of bark^ whether cut off Ihallower, or deep down to the very wood of the tree, will firmly unite themfelvcs to the places where they originally grew. This cure will be performed in the fpace of about three weeks, but the outer rind of the feparated pieces will not be plump, but fomewhat fhrivelled; the edges alfo will recede fomewhat from their original place, fo that there remains a fort of fear all round, Thefe experimems are ben: made in the fpring feafon, for in the autumn and winter the fap arifing but weakly, the parts that fhould unite wither be- fore that is brought about. The fuccefs of thefe experiments has made fome think, that the whole branch of a tree feparated and bound on again, might grow on again ; but the experi- ments that have been made in the moft favourable manner for fuch a trial have all proved vain, the branch cut off withering always in a few days, however well united, and carefully kept on, Phil. Tranf. N° 25. See Bark. Cortex Psruvianus (Cycl.) See Peruvian bark. Cortex Winter -anus [Cycl.) See Winteranus cortex. < CORTUSA, in the Linnxan fyftem of botany, the name of a genus of plants, the characters of which aie thefe: the cup is a fmall perianthium, remaining wrjen the flower is fallen, and compofed of one leaf divided into five obtufe fegments, with their ends bent back. The flower confifts of one petal, form- ing a very fhort tube, with a plain large rim divided into five roundiih fegments, at the bales of which there ftand five tu- bercles. The ftamina are five fhort obtufe fila men tsj the an- thers are compofed of two lamella?, and arc oblong, erect, and fixed to the outer fide of the ftamina 3 the germen of the piftil- lum is of an oval figure ; the ftyie is flendcr, and ihoi ter th:.n the ftamina, and the ftigma isfimple; the fruit is an oval, ob- long, pointed capfule, furrowed longitudinally on each iide, containing only one cell, and having two valves with twifted edges; the feeds are numerous, fmall, oblong, and obtufe. Linnai Gen. Plant, p. 63. CORVlNA, in zoology, a name by which fome have called a fea fifh of very great beauty, and a delicate tafte, caught on Brafilian fhores, and more commonly known among authors by its Brafilian name guatucufa. Wiliugbby% Hift. Pifc, p. 302. See Guatucusa. CORVINDUM nella. See Nella corwndimu COK.VINUS lapis, a name given by fome to the belemnites ; but by others to a very different body of a whitiih colour, and oval figure, convex on one fide, and concave on the other, and in the middle of the concave fide there arifes a tubercle : this is faid to be taken out of the head 01 a fifh ; and it is very poflible that the authors may mean by this no other than our crab's eyes. CORV1PETA avis, in zoology, a name under which Niere.T- herg has defcribed a fmall green bird, not larger than a wren, which, he fays, drives whole flocks of ravens before it. The whole is fuppofed a mere fabulous ftory. See Guitguit.

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