ignifies a cluster of ivy berries. Among botanists it is a mode of flowering, in which the lesser or partial flower-stalks are produced along the common stalk on both sides; and, though of unequal lengths, rise to the same height, so as to form a flat and even surface at the top.

CORYPHÆUS, in the ancient tragedy, was the chief or leader of the company who composed the chorus. The word is formed from the Greek κορυφή, the top of the head. Whenever the chorus took part in the action, the coryphaeus spoke for all the rest, in quality of a person of the drama, during the course of the acts. Hence coryphaeus passed into a general name for the chief or principal of any company, corporation, sect, or opinion. Thus Eustatius of Antioch is called the coryphaeus of the council of Nice; and Cicero calls Zeno the coryphaeus of the Stoics.