a handsome and large town of Lower Hungary, and capital of a territory of the same name. It is so well fortified, that the Turks could never take it. The greatest part of the inhabitants are Hungarians or Ruthens, who are very rich, and are of the Greek religion. It is seated on the river Danube, in the island of Silburt. E. Long. 18° 5'. N. Lat. 47° 46'.

COMOSÆ, in Botany, from Coma; an order of plants in the former edition of Linnaeus's Fragments of a Natural Method, consisting of the spiked willow or spiraea frutex, drospwort, and greater meadow-sweet. These, though formerly distinct genera, are by Linnaeus collected into one, under the name of spiraea. The flowers growing in a head, resemble a bush, or tuft of hair, which probably gave rise to the epithet Comosæ.