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KO'ANG-TCHEOU', a town of Corea: 150 miles fouth 
ef King-ki-tao- Lat 35. 6. N. Ion. 125. 41. E. 
KO'ANG-CHON', a town of China, of the third rank, 
in Ho-nan: twelve miles fouth-weft of Kouang. 
KO'ANG-HO'A, a town of China, of the third rank, 
in Hou-quang: twenty-feven miles north-north-welt of 
Siang-yang. 
KO'ANG-TSE', a town of China, of the third rank, 
in Fo-kien: twelve miles north-welt of Chaou-ou. 
KO'BA, a town of Africa, in Kullo. Lat. 12.20. N. 
Ion. 9. W. 
KO'BA, a town of Arabia, in the province of Hedsjaz: 
three miles north-welt of Medina. 
KO'BA, a town of Turkeftan : feventy miles ealt of 
Toncat. 
KO'BACK, a town of Sclavonia, on the Save : twenty 
miles ealt-fourh-ealt of Belgrade. 
KO'BACK, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Yani. 
KO'BAD, a diftribt of Perfia, in the north-welt part of 
Farliftan. 
KO'BAK, a town of Sweden, in Welt Bothnia: feven 
miles north-welt of Umea. 
KOB'BE, f. in botany. See Rhus. 
KO'BAN KU'PRI, a town of Turkilh Armenia ■. twen¬ 
ty-feven miles ealt of Erzerum. 
KO'BEL, a river of Silefia, which runs into the Oppa 
feven miles well of Jagerndorf. 
KOBELNPKA, a town of Aullrian Poland, in Gali¬ 
cia : thirty-four miles welt of Lemberg. 
KOBELPU'DE, a town of PrulTia, in the circle of Sam- 
land : five miles ealt of Fifchhaufen. 
KOBELWI'ES, a town in the canton of St. Gall, in 
Swilferland, at the foot of the Kamor. About two miles 
above Kobelwies are the caves known by the name of the 
Cryjlal Caves. Thefe are difficult of accefs, the only pof- 
fible mode of entering them being in a creeping pollure. 
From the firft of thefe caves you defcend into the fecond, 
and afcend again in order to arrive at the third, out of 
which ilfues a brook, which fupplies forty baths at Kobel¬ 
wies. The interior of the caves is ftudded all over, not 
with rock-cryftals, but with calcareous fpar, which is part¬ 
ly coated with a yellow kind of clay 5 it is found white 
and of an affi-grey colour, feparates into brilliant large 
grains with a fmooth furface, and when burnt yields the 
fineft and whitelt fort of lime which is applied for the 
purpofes of art. The water ilfuing out of the caves is 
very clear ; it is impregnated with lime and fulphuric acid, 
and the baths it fupplies (efpecially when taken warm) 
are very efficacious in the cure of the ague prevailing in 
the marffiy parts of the country bordering on the Rhine. 
KO'BEN, a town of Silefia, in the principality of Glo- 
gau, fituated on the Oder: nine miles fouth of Guhrau, 
and fixteen fouth-eaft of Great Glogau. Lat. 51. 31. N. 
Ion. 16. 26. E. 
KQ'BERSTEIN, a town of Silefia, in the principality 
of Neifle : eight miles fouth of Ziegenhals. 
KO'BI, a town of Ruffia, in the government of Cau- 
cafus: fixty miles fouth-eaft of Ekaterinograd. 
KOBIE'LE, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Troki: twenty miles north-north-eaft of Grodno. 
KOBIE'LEN, a town of Warfaw : twenty-eight miles 
weft of Kalilh. 
KO'BIL, a town of Ruffia, in the government of Pe- 
terfburg, on the ealt coaft of the Tchudfcoi Lake : twen¬ 
ty -four miles north of Plkov. 
KOBILINKA'lA, a town of Ruffia, in the country of 
the Cofacs : 156 miles eali-north-eaft Azoph. 
KO'BIN, a town of Perfia, in the province of Segeftan : 
thirty miles fouth of Zareng. 
KOBINI'KI, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Wil na : fifty-two miles eaft-north-eait of Wilna. 
KOBOL'TA, a river of European Turkey, which runs 
into the Reut eight miles weft of Florefzti, in Moldavia. 
KOBRE'SIA,yi [fo called by Willdenow, in honour 
oi a nobleman at Vienna, named dt Kvbres-, whom he ce- 
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lebrates as an eminent promoter of natural hiftory.] In 
botany, a genus of the clais monoecia, order triandria, na¬ 
tural order calamarite, (cyperoidete, JuJJ '-) The gene¬ 
ric characters are—I. Male. Calyx : the inner fcales of a 
catkin, each oblong, flightly concave, fihgle-flowered,- 
permanent, lometimes wanting. Corolla : none. Stami¬ 
na : filaments three, capillary, erect, longer than the 
calyx; anthers vertical, linear, ereCt. II. Female. Calyx: 
the outer fcales of the fame catkin, rather larger, fhcath- 
ing, elliptic-oblong, fingle-flowered, permanent. Corolla : 
none. Piltillum : germen fnperior, triangular; ftyle cy¬ 
lindrical, fhort; ltigmas three, briltle-ffiaped, downy. 
Pericarpium : none, except the permanent fcales. Seed : 
one, triangular, pointed, hard, naked. EJfential CkaraBcr.' 
Male. Calyx, the inner fcales of an imbricated catkin, fo- 
litary ; corolla none. Female. Calyx, the outer fcales of 
the fame catkin, fheathing, permanent; corolla none; 
ltigmas three ; feed triangular, naked. This genus differs 
from Carex in the want of a tunic to the feed, which is 
fo remarkable in that, (and has been called fometimes a 
corolla or nedary ;) as well as in the difpofition of the 
flowers. Thefe in Kobrefia ftand in pairs, the males be¬ 
ing internal, and fmaller. In one known inftance only 
they want their fcale or calyx, fo that there is no fepara- 
tion between the ftamens and piftil, and the flowers become 
apparently united, or hermaphrodite. 
Species. 1. Kobrefia feirpina: fpike folitary, Ample, cy¬ 
lindrical. Native of dry elevated fpotson the mountains of 
Savoy, Dauphiny, Italy, Carinthia, Styria, and the Tyrol; 
flowering in July and Auguft. Linnasushad fpecimens from 
Italy, which he never deferibed. Mr. Davall found this 
plant on the mountain of Valforey, though Haller has it 
not. The root is perennial, tufted, confiding of numer¬ 
ous blackifh zigzag fibres, running deep into crevices of 
rocks. See Carex bellardi, vol. iii. p. 803. 
2. Kobrefia caricina: fpike compound, denfe, forne- 
what ovate; fpikelets alternate, imbricated. Native of 
Mount Cenis, in rather moill muddy fpots, flowering in 
Auguft; Mr. Dickfon obferved it in the county of Dur¬ 
ham in 1799. TheRev. Mr. Harriman mentions the moun¬ 
tain of Cronkley, and the neighbourhood of Widdy-bank, 
in Teefdale-foreft, as its particular ftations. At the fug- 
geftion of the late Mr. W. Brunton, it was referred in 
Eng. Bot. to Schoenus, proving, on examination, no Ca¬ 
rex. Its habit and fize are much like the preceding, ex¬ 
cept that the Items grow lefs crowded or tufted, and are 
ftouter, and the leaves fliorter, fomewhat broader, as well 
as more fpreading. The fpike is effentially different, being 
compoled of fourorfive alternate, fhort, elliptical, fpikelets, 
making altogether an ovate figure. Glumes rather more 
pointed, keeled, and lefs membranous, than in the fore¬ 
going fpecies. 
3. Kobrefia cyperina: umbel twice compound, leafy; 
fpikes cylindrical ; fpikelets fpreading. Male flowers 
without their proper calyx. Jacquin received this from 
the Caraccas, where it grows in wet fituations; and it flow¬ 
ered with him in the ftove at Vienna from May to Au¬ 
guft. The habit is that of a Cyperus, or a Kyllingia. 
KO'BRYN, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Brzefc. This towm was taken by the Ruffians, underSu- 
warrow, in 1794: twenty-eight miles eaft of Brzefc. 
KO'BYN, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Brzefc : thirty-four miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Brzefc. 
KOCH'BERG, a town of Auftria r three miles weft of 
Crems. 
KOCIIEISKA'IA, a town of Ruffia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Irkutfk, on the Ilga : twenty-eight mile's north- 
weft of Vercholenfk. 
KOCH'EL, a river of Silefia, which runs into the 
Zack in the principality of Jauer. 
KOCH'ENDORF, a town of Germany, at the union- 
of the Cocher and the Neckar: three miles fouth-eaft of 
Wimpfer, and fix north of Heilbronn. 
KOCH'ER, a river of Germany, which rifes in the fo- 
reft of Ulm, paffys by A-btfgmund, Gaildorf, Hall; Geif- 
iingen. 
