properly signifies a cluster of ivy berries. Among botanists, it is a mode of flowering in which the lesser or partial flower-stalks are produced along the common stalk on both sides; and, though of unequal lengths, rise to the same height, so as to form a flat and even surface at the top. See Botany, p. 1294, n° 32.

Coryphaena, in ichthyology, a genus belonging to the order of thoracici. The head is declined and truncated; the branchiostegal membrane has five rays; and the back-fin runs the whole length of the back. There are twelve species, most of them natives of foreign seas. The most remarkable are the blue and parrot fishes, described by Mr Catesby. The head of the first is of an odd structure, resembling that of the sperm whale; the mouth is small, each mandible armed with a single row of even teeth, so closely joined that they seem entire bones; the iris of the eye is red. On the back is a long pectoral fin, somewhat indented on the edge; behind the gills are two fins, one under the abdomen, and another behind the anus. The tail is forked; and the whole fish entirely blue. They are taken on the coasts of the Bahamas Islands, and in most of the seas between the tropics.

The parrot-fish hath a large mouth, paved as it were with blunt teeth, closely connected, after the manner of the lipus marinus. The body is covered with large green scales; the eyes are red and yellow; the upper part of the head brown, the lower part and the Coryphaeus gills blue, bordered with a dusky red; a streak of red extends from the throat behind the gills, at the upper end of which is a bright yellow spot. The fins are five in number, one extending almost the length of the back, of a bay or cinnamon colour; there are two behind the gills, blended with black, green, and purplish colours, with the upper edge verged with blue; under the abdomen is another red fin verged with blue; under the anus extends another long narrow green fin, with a lift of red through the middle of it; at the basis of the tail on each side is a large yellow spot. The tail is large, forked, and green, with a curved red line running through the middle parallel to the curve, and ending in two points. This fish is more esteemed for beauty than the delicacy of its taste. They are taken on the coasts of Hispaniola, Cuba, and the Bahama Islands.