Each of these 16 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
a genus of plants, order Polygonacea. C. uvifera is the seaside grape, which grows on the shores of the West Indian Islands, Bermuda, and on the American continent. It has large glossy green leaves with red veins. The berries are eatable. It is an evergreen. The wood is used for cabinet work. A red coloring matter in it is employed as a dye. The wood, leaves, and bark are astringent, and a decoction of them evaporated forms Jamaica Kino.
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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. genus of fossil
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a 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.
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a genus of plants, order Menispermaceæ. In general the species are bitter febrifuges. C. crispus, a twining species with tubercles or warts on the stem, found in Sumatra and the Molucca Islands, is used by the Malays in intermittent fevers. The root of what was formerly called C. palmatus, but is now designated Jateorhiza palmata, found in Mozambique and Oibo, is the calumba-root of commerce, from which a bitter is obtained.rection of the fresh roots of C. villosus is administered by the Hindus in rheumatism and old venereal complaints. An ink is made from its fruit. In Arabia a spirit is distilled from the acrid berries of C. Cebatha.
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a popular name given to a species of Menispermaceæ, which furnishes certain dried berries constituting an article of commerce. They are imported from the East Indies. There is no botanical species with this exact name. The drupe resembles a round berry, the size of a pea or larger, wrinkled externally, and with a brittle husk. The kernel is intensely bitter. It contains about one-fiftieth of its weight of a powerful bitter narcotic poison called picrotoxin. C. indicus is a deadly poison, is used to give a bitter taste to beer, and is thrown into rivers to kill the fish. It has been used in form of ointment in certain skin diseases. They are commonly known in the United States as fish-berries.
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the typical genus of the family Coccidæ. Many species are hurtt ful to plants in greenhouses and elsewhere. Ga Gardeners call them bugs. C. adonidum (the mealy bug) does damage in hothouses, as does C. testudo. C. vitis (the vine-scale) injures vines, and C. hesperidum oranges. Others, however, are of value as dyes. C. Cacti, found on the cactuses, is the cochineal insect. C. Ilicis, found on quercus coccifera, an evergreen oak in the S. of France, furnishes a crimson dye which has long been known to mankind. C. polonicus is used by the Turks as a red dye. C. lacca yields lac.
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the lowermost portion of the vertebral column, consisting of four, or more rarely five or three, divided terminal vertebræ, which become more or less united into one with the advance of age. They have been called united vertebræ.
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a central department of Bolivia, with offshoots of the Eastern Cordilleras, and extensive plateaus. The climate is equable and healthy, and 1 though poor in metals, its fertile valleys render it the richest as well as the most picturesque district of the republic. Agriculture and cattle-raising are the chief occupations. Area, 21,430 square miles; pop. about 730,000. The capital, Cochabamba (3,396 feet above the sea), on a tributary of the Guapay, was founded in 1565, as Ciudad de Oropesa.
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a seaport of Hindustan, in the Malabar district of the Madras presidency; on a small island; a picmany quaint old turesque place place with buildings. Its harbor, though Dutch sometimes inaccessible during the S. W. monsoon, is the best on this coast. dia was one of the first places in India chin visited by Europeans. In 1502 Vasco da Gama established a factory, and soon after Albuquerque built a fort; he also died here in 1524. In 1663 the Dutch took the place, in 1795 the British. Pop. about 20,000.
a small native state of India, on the S. S. W. or Malabar coast, connected with the presidency of Madras, intersected by numerous rapid streams. Chief products: Timber, rice. Area, 1,361 square miles; pop. about 1,000,000, partly belonging to the Jacobite and Nestorian Churches established here in early times. The capital is Ernakolam.
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a name given to Opuntia cochinillifera and two other species of cacti, natives of Mexico and the West Indies, the plants on which the cochineal insect lives.
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an important part of the internal ear, so called from its shape, which resembles that of a its snail-shell.
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a genus of cruciferous plants, including the horse-radish and common scurvy-grass.
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the popular name of a lamellicorn beetle, Melolontha vulgaris, found in England. The larvæ are found in dung or in decaying vegetable matter or buried in the ground.
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a genus of grasses, closely allied to fescue. The common or rough cock's-foot grass (D. glomerata) is a native of both palæarctic and nearctic regions, and is very abundant in Great Britain. In the United States it is called orchard grass, and is extensively cultivated. To this genus belongs also the tussac grass.
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an amusement practiced in various countries, first perhaps among the Greeks and Romans. At Athens there were annual cock-fights, and among the Romans quails and partridges were also used for this purpose. It was formerly a popular sport with the British. In Cuba and the Philippines it enjoys great favor. Cockfighting is generally prohibited by local laws in the United States.
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a plume of cock's feathers with which the Croats in the service of the French in the 17th century adorned their caps. A bow of colored ribbon was adopted for the cockade in France, and during the French revolution the triaurin colored cockade-red, white, and bluebecame the National distinction. National cockades are now to be found over all Europe.
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