A, pyramids of Malpighi; B, apices, or papillæ, of the pyramids, surrounded by subdivisions of the pelvis known as cups or calices; C, pelvis of the kidney; D, upper end of ureter.

Faecundi calices, quem non fecere disertum; aut bibe aut abi; either take your drink, or you are an infidel.

Everywhere may be seen' (M. L. speaks, I presume, of five-and-twenty years ago: my experience would make me substitute for his words, 'Hardly anywhere can be seen') 'one of these insectivora in pursuit or seizure of its prey, either on the wing or on the trunks of trees, in the coverts of thickets or in the calices of flowers.

Pliny says this flower never opens its petals but when the wind blows; whence its name: it has properly no calix, but two or three sets of petals, three in each set, which are folded over the stamens and pistil in a singular and beautiful manner, and differs also from ranunculus in not having a melliferous pore on the claw of each petal.

The coco-wine is a weak spirit, obtained in the following manner: The tree that produces this fruit is crowned by an assemblage of large flowers or corollas, from the center or calix of which issues a fleshy stem, filled with juice.

One of these, a M. Tiquet, a Councillor of the Parliament, sent her on her fête-day a bouquet, in which the calices of the roses were of large diamonds.

Martial says Regnat nocte calix, volvuntur biblia mane, Cum Phoebo Bacchus dividit imperium.

In the same page (fol. 149. rect.), (sic) "Fecundi calices quem non fecere disertum" is transferred from Horace to Ovid; while, on the reverse of the same fol., Æsop has the credit of "Non bene pro toto libertas venditur auro; Hoc coeleste bonum præterit orbis opes.