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CORYMBIUM

Volume 6 · 61 words · 1815 Edition

in antiquity, an ornament of hair worn by the women. Its form was that of a corymbus.

CORYMBIUM; a genus of plants belonging to the syngenesia class; and in the natural method ranking under the 49th order, *Compositae*. See Botany Index.

The calyx is diphyllous, uniflorous, and prismatical; the corolla monopetalous and regular; there is one woolly seed below each floret.