tains the following genera, viz. elegans, hippophae, osyrus, and trophis. See Botany.

CALYCISTÆ, (from calyx, the flower-cup), systematic botanists, so named by Linnæus, 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 Novæ, a posthumous work of Magnolius, professor of botany at Montpellier, published in 1720; and Linnæus's Methodus Calycina, published in his Classes Plantarum, at Leyden, in 1738. See Botany, History.in Ancient Geography, a town of Ætolia, situated seven miles and a half from the sea, and divided by the river Evenus; the country was anciently called Æolis, from the Æolians its inhabitants. This country was famous for the story of Meleager and the Calydonian boar.