corbularIa

[Lat. corbula a little basket, and n. pl. suff. -aria. Named from the shape of the nectary.] Bot . A genus of Amaryllidaceae. The species are generally called Hoop-petticoats. They are found in the south of Europe. The best known species is Corbularia Bulbocodium , the Common Hoop-petticoats; it has pale yellow flowers. *cor-chat, s. [CROTCHET.] Music : A crotchet. "But scho can nevir the corchat cleif, For harshnes of hir carlich throt." Dunbar: Bannatyne Poems , p. 64, st. 4. cor-cho-rus, s. [Lat. cor chorus ; Gr. korchoros = a sorry vegetable growing wild; Pimpernel or Jews' Mallow.] Bot.: A genus of hypogynous exogens, order Tiliaceæ, sub-order Tileæ, family Grewide. The species are herbs or small shrubs. Leaves simple, flowers single or in clusters, inserted opposite to the leaves; sepals, five deciduous; petals, five; stamens, many; style, one; stigmas, five. Fruit capsular or pod-like, separating into five divisions. About fifty species are known. The leaves of Cor chorus olitorius are used in Egypt and the adjacent countries as a potherb. From the fact that the Jews thus employ them they are sometimes called Jews' Mallow. Fishing-lines and nets, "gunny," i . e . , rice bags, and "tat," a coarse kind of linen, have long been mado in India from C. capsular is , but it is much more recently that this and the former species have been used to furnish jute (q. v.). The negroes in the West Indies use C. siliquosus to make besoms, and its leaves as a substitute for tea. IMG:content-0934.png:[blocks in formation] 2. The small axis of growth in such dicotyledonous embryos as the walnut. (Treas. of Bot .)