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resembles the buttercup. By whatever name called, the yellow of the blossom is purest gold, the glossy leaves are of richest green, the familiar cowslip a gladsome blossom of the spring. It grows in marshes, often quite deep in water, and is found north of Carolina and west to the Rocky Mountains. Its stem is hollow, its branches bearing both leaves and flowers. The upper leaves grow on very short stems, thereby not shading the lower leaves, all spreading out broadly to the light. The young plants are sometimes used for "greens. The season of flowering is quite long, from April to June.

Cox, Sir George William, an English cleric and historian, was born in 1827, and educated at Rugby and at Trinity College, Oxford. He held several curacies, and became rector of Scrayingham in Yorkshire. He wrote largely on Grecian history and mythology. His chief works are A Manual of Mythology; Mythology of the Aryan Nations; a History of Greece; Introduction to the Science of Comparative Mythology and Folk-Lore; and a Life of Bishop Colenso. With Dr. Brande he edited a Dictionary of Science and Literature. His death occurred in 1902.

Cox, Jacob Dolson, an American soldier and statesman, was born at Montreal, Oct. 27, 1828. He studied law and began practice in Warren, O. He was a member of the state senate when the Civil War began in 1861, and also was a brigadier-general of militia. He at once entered the Federal army and rendered conspicuous service throughput the war, taking part in many of the important battles and advancing to the rank of major-general. He was elected governor of Ohio, in 1866; was secretary of the interior in President Grant's cabinet in 1869; member of Congress from 1877 to 1879; and m 1885 became president of Cincinnati University. General Cox's qualities as a student and scholar, as well as a brave and capable general, gave value to his contributions to history of the great struggle, which include Atlanta (1882); The March to the Sea (1882); and Military Reminiscences, the latter being published after his death (Aug. 4, 1900).

Cox, Kenyon, American painter, was born at Warren, p., Oct. 27, 1856, and studied art in Cincinnati, Philadelphia and Paris. In the latter city he was a pupil of Ge*r6me, In 1882 he became a member of the Society of American Artists, and settled in New York to pursue his profession. His pictures are chiefly portraits and figure-pieces, together with designs for book-illustration. Among the latter is his work done on Rossetti's The Blessed Damozel; he has also painted decorations in the Library of Congress and in the Walker Art-Gallery of Bowdoin College.

Cox, Palmer, American artist and author, was born at Granby, Quebec, April 28, 1840, and was educated at the academy of his native town. In early manhood he drifted to California, where he developed his native taste for drawing and sketching, while at the same time contributing to periodicals. He afterward returned east and settled in New York, where he contributed and illustrated a series of popular papers for the young, later published as The Brownie Stories, The Brownies at Home, The Brownies through the Union, The Brownies in Fairy-land, etc. He also issued Queer People with Claws and Paws; How Columbus Found America, etc.

Cox, Samuel Sullivan, American politician and diplomat, was born at Zanes-ville, O., in 1824, and died at New York on Sept. 10, 1889. After graduating at Brown University he became editor of The Statesman, a Columbus, Ohio, journal, in which appeared a flowery description of a sunset, which earned him the sobriquet of Sunset Cox. For over 30 years he was a member of Congress, where his humor and debating power earned him influence. In 1885-86 he was United States minister to Turkey. He was the author of several works, among which are A Buckeye Abroad; Eight Years in Congress; Why We Laugh; and Three Decades of Federal Legislation.

Coyote (kl-otr or ki-o'te). See WOLF.

Crab, a short-tailed relative of the lobster and fresh-water crayfish. The lobster and crayfish each have a long tail, and so has the crab during its early life; the reduction of the tail is a case of modification. The crab is the highest member of the class of animals (Crustacea} which contains the shrimps, prawns, lobsters and crayfish. It has five pairs of legs and on this account is often called a Decapod or ten-footed animal. The first pair of legs ends in large claws, somewhat like those of the lobster, but smaller; the other four pairs are walking legs. The head-end *s covered Dy a broadly expanded buckler or

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shield. (See illustration.)   Thh is 9-n »3ttf*~ growth of the horny covering of the body^