or **May-weed**: A genus of the polygamia superflua order, belonging to the syngenesia class of plants. The receptacle is almost naked; the pappus margined; the florets of the disc quadrifid; of the radius frequently none. There are five species, all of them herbaceous annuals, rising six or eight inches high, and adorned with yellow flowers. There are none of them natives of this country, and most of them require artificial heat.

**Cotula**, or **Cotyla**, a liquid measure in use among the ancients.

Fannius says, the cotyla was the same thing with the hemina, which was half a sextary.

At cotylas, qua si placet, dixisse licet Heminas, recipit geminas exterrinis unus.

Chorier observes, that the cotyla was used as a dry measure as well as a liquid one; from the authority of Thucydides, who in one place mentions two cotylae of wine, and in another two cotylae of bread.