in botany: a genus of the polygamia superflua order, belonging to the syngenesia class of plants; and, in the natural method, ranking under the 49th order, Compositae-alfoideae. The characters are: The calyx is hemispheric and imbricated; The corolla is radiated; The stamina consist of five very short capillary filaments; the anthera cylindric and tubular; The pistillum has an oval germen; a filiform style; a bifid stigma in the hermaphrodites, two slender reflected stigmata in the females; There is no pericarpium; but the calyx unchanged; The seeds are solitary, with membranous wings; the receptaculum is chaffy.

**ANADAVADÆA**, in ornithology, a barbarous name of a species of alauda. See Alauda.