COHORT

n. Ko'ho2rt. Lat., cohors. A subdivision of a cla , comprising one or more orders. In Endlicher's cla ification there were only 13 cohorts, 7 of which viz., Polypetalce, Gamopetalce, Apetalae, Conoidece. Spadiciflorece, Floridece, and Glumiferce belonged to the Phanerogams, and 6 viz., Sporogamia, Thallogamia, Axogamia, Aerophyta, Hysterophyta, and Hydrophytawere comprised among the Cryptogams. [B, 34.] The term is now used in a much narrower sense, each of these divisions comprising a number of c's. See the names of the various cla es for these c's. In some continental systems of cla ification the word c. is replaced by order, and the order of other systems is represented by the term family. [B, 35, 41, 42, 75.] [s. 338]