Arundo
a Linnæan genus of grasses. a of One species (A. donax) supplies material for fishing-rods, and is imported for the purpose from the S. of Europe, where it is ind indigenous. The striped-leaved variety, formerly more common than it now is in gardens, is called gardener's garters.
ARUSPICES (a-rus'pe-sez), or HA- RUSPICES, a class of priests in ancient Rome, of Etrurian origin, whose business was to inspect the entrails of victims killed in sacrifice, and by them to foretell future events.
ARUWIMI (ar-ö'e-mē), a large river of equatorial Africa, a tributary of the Kongo, which it enters from the N.
ARVAL BROTHERS (fratres arvales), a college or company of 12 members elected for life from the highest ranks in ancient Rome, so called from offering annually public sacrifices for the fertility of the fields.