MAY-WEEED; a genus of the polygamia superflua order, belonging to the syngenesia class of plants. There are six species, all of them herbaceous annuals, rising 6 or 8 inches high, and adorned with yellow flowers. There are none of them natives of this country, and most of them require artificial heat.

or Cotula, 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 10 ounces of wine, and 9 of oil.