as also the name of the promontory of Marathon in Attica, obverted to Euboea.

**Cynosura**, in mythology, a nymph of Ida in Crete. She nursed Jupiter, who changed her into a star which bears the same name. It is the same as the urfa minor.

**Cynosurus**, in botany: A genus of the digynia order, belonging to the triandria class of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 4th order, Graminae. The calyx is bivalved and multiflorous; the receptacle proper, unilateral, and foliaceous. There are ten species, four of which are natives of Britain, viz., the crissatus, or crested dog-tail grass; the echinatus, or rough dog-tail-grass; the caeruleus, or blue dog-tail-grass; and the panicus, or bearded dog-tail-grass.

**Cynthius** and **Cynthia**, in mythology, surnames of Apollo and Diana, derived from Cynthia the name of a mountain in the middle of the island of Delos.

**Cynthus** (anc. geog.), a mountain of the island Delos, so high as to overshadow the whole island. On this mountain Latona brought forth Apollo and Diana: hence the epithet Cynthia (Virgil), and Cynthia (Lucan, Statius).

**Cynuria**, or **Cynurus Ager**, (anc. geog.), a district of Laconica, on the confines of Argolis. A territory that proved a perpetual bone of contention between the Argives and Spartans (Thucydides). For the manner of deciding the dispute, see Thyrea.

**Cyperus**, in botany: A genus of the monogyne order, belonging to the triandria class of plants; Cyphon and in the natural method ranking under the 3d order, Calamaria. The glumes are paleaceous, and inbricated towards each side; the corolla is wanting, and there is one naked seed. There are 20 species; the only remarkable are the round and the long sweet cyperus. The former is a native of the East Indies, and grows by the sides of rivulets, ditches, and the like. The root is knotty, wrapped round with fibrous strings not easy to break, of a brown colour without and grey within; of a pleasant scent, especially when fresh and well-dried; the leaves are green, and resemble those of the reed and leek. The latter, commonly called English or Flemish cyperus, grows in the water, and along banks and river sides. Its root is as thick as an olive, full of little knots or specks, of an oblong figure, grey colour, sweet and somewhat sharp taste, and almost without smell when it is newly taken out of the ground. The roots of both plants are esteemed cordial, diuretic, and cephalic, restorers of poisons, and expellers of wind. Long cyperus is much used by perfumers and glovers.