a handsome and large town of lower Hungary, and capital of a territory of the same name. name. It is so well fortified, that the Turks could never take it. The greatest part of the inhabitants are Hungarians or Ruffians, who are very rich, and are of the Greek religion. It is seated on the river Danube, in the island of Siluet, E. Lon. 18° 25' N. Lat. 47° 50'.

**COMOSÉ**, in botany, from *Coma*. An order of plants in the former editions of Linnæus's Fragments of a Natural Method, consisting of the spiked willow or *spirea frutex*, *dropwort*, and greater meadow-sweet. These, though formerly distinct genera, are by Linnæus collected into one, under the name of *spirea*. The flowers, growing in a head, resemble a bulb, or tuft of hair, which probably gave rise to the epithet *Comosé*.