CYANURIC ACID

A crystallizablc acid, obtained by decom prising urea bv heat. CYilELE (Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.), in Mythology, was originally the Phrygian godde of the earth. When her worship was introduced among the Greeks, they confounded her with Rhea, as did the Latins with their Ops. Her rites, like those of the Asiatic deities, in general were celebrated with great excitement; her priests, who were called Galli, Coryhantes, Curetes, , running about with bowlings and clashing of cvmbals. CYCADACE^E. (Cycas, one of the genera.) In Botany, a very small natural order of arborescent Gym oosperms, inhabiting the tropic3 of Asia and America. They were formerly referred by Linnasus to the Palms; but in 18S5 Brown showed the analogy between Cycadacea aud Conifer a, and hence their present station. Adolphe Brongniart also proved the affinity by finding the ve els contained in the wood of both orders to be, as he says, of the same structure. The only remarkable quality in (ho order is ihe production of a kind of sago by the soft centro of Cycas circinalis. [s. 326]