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 Russians, who are very rich, and are of the Greek religion. It is seated on the river Danube, in the island of Silbut. E. Long. 18. 5. N. Lat. 47. 46.

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