The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . iction, rhythmical in movement, and artistic in form. Encyc. Brit., XIX. 257. of (or Vapitoiiidse). typified by thegenus Viiiioiiorhijiichus, and containing the Afri-can barbels. 3. Composition in verse; a metrical compost- Pogonorhynchus (p6-g6-n6-ringkus), «. [NL. tion; verse; poems: as,heroic poetry; lyric or (Van der Hoeven, lS35), <Gr. tu;ui, beard, + dramatic poetry; a collection ot poetry,Con seyde that Omcre made lyesFeyniiige in lii
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . iction, rhythmical in movement, and artistic in form. Encyc. Brit., XIX. 257. of (or Vapitoiiidse). typified by thegenus Viiiioiiorhijiichus, and containing the Afri-can barbels. 3. Composition in verse; a metrical compost- Pogonorhynchus (p6-g6-n6-ringkus), «. [NL. tion; verse; poems: as,heroic poetry; lyric or (Van der Hoeven, lS35), <Gr. tu;ui, beard, + dramatic poetry; a collection ot poetry,Con seyde that Omcre made lyesFeyniiige in liis poetri*^*. Cliaucer, House of Fame, 1. 1477. And this young birkie here, . . will his . . poetrieshelp him here? Scott, Roll Roy, xxiii. Arcadlc, lyric, poetry, see the adjectives. livy\o(, snout.] A genus of African barbels,typical of the subfamily PogoiiorhyiicliiiiK, hay-iiig a large sulcate and dentate beak which isstrongly iiogouiale. p. duftiiM is , blood-red, and white. P. Urxnlus (or /lavipimclata) is a barbetof the Gaboon, fomiiiig the type of the subgenus Tricho-licma. See cut on follow ing Pogonorhynchus hirsutits. Pogostemon Pogostemon(p6- go-stemon), n. - . , [NL. (Desfon-taines, 1815), socalled in allu-sion to the longhairs often clothing thefilaments; < , beard, +cTr/fiuv, warp < stamen).] Agenus of gamo-petalous plants•of the mintfamily, orderLabiatse, andtribe Satureinese,tj-pe of the subtribe Poyostemonex, and charac-terized by the four perfect stamens, -n-hich areprotruding, distant, straight, and little unequal,and by the terminal roundish one-celled an-thers, five-toothed calyx, four-cleft corolla withone lobe spreading, and the flowers close-crowded in large verticillasters, in an inter-rupted spike or panicle. There are about 32 species,natives of tlie East Indies, the Malay archipelago, andJapan. They are herbs or shrubby plants, with oppositeleaves, and the numerous small flowers are whitish andpurple, or of
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