The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . three-angled thi-ee-seeded nutlet. There are but2 species, natives of North America, including the WestIndies. They are smooth and low-growing attuatics, l)ear-ing alternate lanceolate leaves, pectinately toothed or cut,and miimte sessile axillary flowers. They are named mer-viaid-ieeed, doubtless from their comb-like leaves andgrowth in water. Proserpine (proser-pin), «. [= F. Iroseipine, <L. Iroserpina, (_)L. Prosepna, coiTupted from , al
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . three-angled thi-ee-seeded nutlet. There are but2 species, natives of North America, including the WestIndies. They are smooth and low-growing attuatics, l)ear-ing alternate lanceolate leaves, pectinately toothed or cut,and miimte sessile axillary flowers. They are named mer-viaid-ieeed, doubtless from their comb-like leaves andgrowth in water. Proserpine (proser-pin), «. [= F. Iroseipine, <L. Iroserpina, (_)L. Prosepna, coiTupted from , also llepaeipuma, Proserpine (see def.),traditionally exj^lained as bringer of death,< (pipen; bring (see bcar^), + (jxJvoc, death (see6«»l); but this explanation, untenable in it-self, fails to apply to the equiv. Ylcpntijiaaaa, Xlep-c!e<paTTa; tliese forms, if not adaptations of someantecedent name, are appar. < Trepan-, a form incomp. of. irepdetv, destroy; the second element-0017/ may be connected with iliuvo^, death, -ipaoaawith \/ Ifa, shine.] In lioin. iinjth., one of thegreater goddesses, the Greek Persephone or. Proserpine. Relief of Ceres (Denieter\ lacchus or Triptotemus, and Proserpine (Persephone or Kura), found at Eleusis, Attica. Kora, daughter of Ceres, wife of Pluto, andqueen of the infernal regions. She passed sixmonths of the year in Olympus with her mother, duringwhich time she was considered as an amiable and propi-tious divinity; but during the six months passed in Hadesshe was stem and terrible. .She was essentially a personi-fication of the changes in the seasons, in spring and sum-mer bringing fresh vegetation and fruits to man, and inwinter harsh and causing sulfering. She was intimatelycotuiccted with stich mysteries as those of Elensis. TheRoman goddess was practically identical with the cuts under Pluto and modius. prosiphonate Proserpinidae (pros-er-pini-de), n. pi. [NL., <Iroserpina + -iilee.^ A family of rhipidoglos-sat
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