COMMUNIS, in Botany, the name of a class in Linnæus's Methodus Cyclica, consisting of two plants which, like teazel and dandelion, have a calyx or flower-cup common to many flowers or florets. These are the aggregate or compound flowers of other systems.

COMMUNIBUS LOCIS, a Latin term, in frequent use among philosophical, &c. writers; implying some medium or mean relation, between several places. Dr Keil supposes the ocean to be one quarter of a mile deep, communibus locis, q. d. at a medium, or taking one place with another.