ntains the following genera, viz. elegans, hippophae, osyris, and tropis. See BOTANY.

CALYCISTÆ, (from calyx, the flower-cup), systematic botanists, so named by Linnaeus, who have arranged all vegetables from the different species, structure, and other circumstances, of the calyx or flower-cup. The only systems of this kind are the Character Plantarum Novus, a posthumous work of Magnolius, professor of botany at Montpellier, published in 1720; and Linnaeus's Methodus Calycina, published in his Claves Plantarum, at Leyden, in 1738. See BOTANY, History.in Ancient Geography, a town of Aetolia, situated seven miles and a half from the sea, and divided by the river Evenus; the country was anciently called Aolir, from the Aeolians its inhabitants. This country was famous for the story of Meleager and the Calydonian boar.