Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . the restof the breast and the belly white, withtransverse undulating black lines, thequill feathers with white on their innerwebs, the tail ash, white, and black com-mingled, feet yellow; length, 14 cuckoo forces foster-parentage onother species of birds. CUCKOO FLOWER or LADYS^-SMOCK (Cardamina pratensis), a com-mon and pretty meadow plant, orderCi-uciferas, with pale lilac or white flow-ers. C. pratensis is abundant in GreatBritan and is found in swamps N. ofNe
Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . the restof the breast and the belly white, withtransverse undulating black lines, thequill feathers with white on their innerwebs, the tail ash, white, and black com-mingled, feet yellow; length, 14 cuckoo forces foster-parentage onother species of birds. CUCKOO FLOWER or LADYS^-SMOCK (Cardamina pratensis), a com-mon and pretty meadow plant, orderCi-uciferas, with pale lilac or white flow-ers. C. pratensis is abundant in GreatBritan and is found in swamps N. ofNew York. CUCUMBER 217 GUI CUCUMBER (Cucumis sativus), anarticle of food, having yellow unisexualmale and female flowers in the axils ofthe leaf stalks. The leaves are large,the stems weak and trailing. It is a na-tive of the S. of Asia and of Egypt. Itis mentioned by Vergil. It is said to havebeen common in England during thereign of Edward III., A. D. gone out of culture during theWars of the Roses, it was re-introducedunder Henry VIII. from the Netherlands,between 1509 and 1547, probably CUCKOO CUCUTA, SAN JOSE DE, a town inthe Colombian department of Santander,on the Rio Zulia, 35 miles S. of PuertoVillamizar. It is the third commercialtown of the republic, a center of coffeeand cacao cultivation. It was destroyedby earthquake in 1875, but has been wellrebuilt. Pop. about 20,000. Rosario deCucUTA, to the S. E., was the seat of thefirst Colombian congiess in 1821, and thebirthplace of the patriot, General Santan-der (1792-1840). It has large planta-tions of coffee and cacao. CUDDALORE, or KUDALUR, an im-portant tovm in South Arcot, Madras,India, on the Gadelain and Pounaiyarritrers, about 125 miles S. of Madras. Theriver admits vessels to within about amile from the towns limits and the har-bor is the largest in South Arcot. The industries are cotton and carpet, sugar,paper, and oil. There is a fort and tem-ple, and the environs are
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