Corel'li, Arcangelo

an Italian musical composer, B. 1653. He was very celebrated for his skill as a violinist, and when he visited Germany, in 1680, was received with the greatest honors, both from sovereigns and people. He had in his later years the patronage of Cardinal Ottoboni. His works, especially the Twelve Concertos, are very highly esteemed for the highest qualities of musical composition. D. at Rome, 1713. Corentyn' (or CORANTYN) River, in S. America, rising in Mount Acarai, flows from N., and separating British and Dutch Guiana, enters the Atlantic by an æstuary abt. 25 m, acro at its mouth, in Lat. 6o N., Lon. 57° W. Coreop's is, n. [Gr. kor is , a bug, ophis , appearance. ( Bot .) A genus of plants, order Asteraceæ . The genera! characters of the genus are as follows: Involucre double, each 6-10-leaved; receptacle chaffy; achenia compre ed, emarginate, each commonly with a 2-toothed pappus; leaves mostly opposite; rays rarely wanting. Among the species belonging to this country is the Tick-seed sunflower, C. tri cho sperm a. It is a smooth, branching plant, 1-2 feet high, with a panicle of large, showy, yellow heads; achenia crowned with stout, hispid awns. It is found in wet grounds from Ma achusetts to the Carol in as, and blo oms in August. Cor'er, n. He who, or that which, cores. Core Sound, in N. Carolina , an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean. It joins Pamlico Sound. Core's us. ( Myth .) A priest of Bacchus at Calydon, in Bœotia, deeply enamored of the nymph Callirhoe, who treated him with disdain. He complained to Bacchus, who visited the country with a pestilence. The Calydonians were directed by the oracle to appease the god by sacrificing Callirhoe on his altar. Accordingly, the nymph was led to the altar, when C. , who was to sacrifice her, forgot his resentment, and stabbed himself. Callirhoe, conscious of her ingratitude to the love of C. , killed herself on the brink of a fountain, which afterwards bore her name.