in botany, a genus of the syngenesia polygamia superflua clas. The receptacle is naked; the pappus is marginated; and the corollula of the disk are divided into four segments; the species are six, none of them natives of Britain.

or COTYLA, in antiquity, a liquid measure among the Greeks, equal to the hemina of the Romans, containing half a sextary, or four acetabula: hence it appears that it contained ten ounces of wine, and nine of oil.