Thalia (thali a)

[F. Thalie, quet accompanied by song and music, and also favored rural pursuits and pleasures. At a late period she became the Muse of comedy, and to the Romans was little known in any other character. In the later art she is generally represented with a comic mask, a shepherd's crook, and a wreath of ivy. See cut in next column, and cut under mask3, 1. 2. The twenty-third planetoid, discovered by Hind in London in 1852.-3t. In zoöl.: (a) A genus of salps, giving name to the Thaliæ or Thaliacea: same as Salpa, 1. (b) A genus of coleopterous insects. Hope, 1838. Thaliacea (thā-li-a'sē-ä), n. pl. [NL. (Menke, 1830), der leaf ). The flowers are commonly small, small, polygamous, and panicled, pendulous in T. dioicum and T. minus, reduced to a raceme in T. alpinum. They consist chiefly of four or five greenish, yellowish, purple, or whitish sepals; the several or many carpels commonly become compre ed stalked taille achenes; the anthers are usually long and exserted or pendent, giving the inflorescence a graceful feathery appearance, and are especially conspicuous in T. a qui leg i folium and T. flavum from their yellow color. The species are known in general as meadow - rue; 3 are natives of England, and 10 or more of the United States; the former T. an emo no ides, the rue-anemone, a favorite early spring flower of the eastern and central United States, is now cla ed as Anemone thalictroides, or by some as Anemonella thalictroides. (See cut under apocarpous.) A few dwarf species are used for borders or rock-work, as T. minus and T. alpinum, the latter native of the mountains of Europe and Asia, as also of the Rocky Mountains, and reaching latitude 66° N. About 24 the taller species are in cultivation, especially T. glaucum of Spain and the Austrian T. a qui leg i folium, known as Spanish - tuft and feathered or tufted columbine. T. polygamum (formerly T. Cornuti ), a conspicuous ornament of wet meadows in the United States, reaches the height of 4, sometimes 7, feet. T. flavum is known in England as fen - rue or maiden hair rue, and as false, monk's, or poor - man's rhubarb. Τ. foliolosum, the yellow root of the Him a lay as, produces tonic and aperient roots used in India in intermittent fevers. thallic (thal'ik), a. [ thalliform (thal'i-fôrm), a. [ a thallus. [