Botany; a genus of plants belonging to the triandria clas, and in the natural method ranking under the 4th order, Gramineae. See Botany Index.

Cynthia 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, in Ancient Geography, 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).