a vessel of capacity of various forms and materials, chiefly to drink out of. In the Ephem German, we have a description of a cup made of a common pepper-corn by Oswald Nerlinger, which holds 1200 other ivory cups, having each its several handle, all gilt on the edges; with room for 400 more.

Botany. See Calyx, Botany Index.

Cup-Galls, in Natural History, a name given by authors to a very singular kind of galls, found on the leaves of the oak and some other trees. They are of the figure of a cup, or drinking-glass without its foot, being regular cones adhering by their point or apex to the leaf; and the top or broad part is hollowed a little way, so that it appears like a drinking-glass with a cover, which was made so small as not to close it at the mouth, but fall a little way into it. This cover is flat, and has in the centre a very small protuberance, resembling the nipple of a woman's breast. This is of a pale green, as is also the whole of the gall, excepting only its rim that runs round the top: this is of a scarlet colour, and that very beautiful. Besides this species of gall, the oak leaves furnish us with several others, some of which are oblong, some round and others flatted; these are of various sizes, and appear on the leaves at various seasons of the year. They all contain the worm of some small fly; and this creature passes all its changes in this its habitation, being sometimes found in the worm, sometimes in the nymph, and sometimes in the fly state, in the cavity of it.