Coccomilia
a kind of plum growing in Calabria, the bark of which-especially of the root is highly esteemed by the Neapolitan faculty for its virtues in intermittent fever. COCCOSTEUS, a genus of fossil placoganoid fishes, pertaining chiefly to the Devonian and Old Red Sandstone system, but met with also in Silurian strata. The head was protected by a great shield covered with tubercles. Be sides this bony cuirass there was also a ventral shield, but the rest of the body was naked. The mouth was furnished with small teeth.