an ancient term in Wales, denoting half a cantred, or hundred, containing fifty villages. See Hundred. Wales was anciently divided into three provinces, each of them subdivided into cantreds, and every cantred into two commotes or hundreds. Silvester Girald, however, tells us in his Itinerary, that a commote is but a quarter of a hundred.

COMMUNIS, in Botany, the name of a class in Linnaeus's Methodus Calycina, 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.