Crossword-Solution: CALATHUS 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Furthermore, the botanical title, Caltha, of the Mare Blob, is got from _calathus_, a small round basket of twigs or osiers made two thousand years and more ago, which the concave golden bowl of the Marsh Marigold was thought to resemble.

The ‘calathus,’ which was called by the Greeks κάλαθος, καλαθίσκος, and τάλαρος, generally signifies the basket in which women placed their work, and especially the materials used for spinning.

The _Calathus complanatus_, Koll., assumes along the upland heights a very different aspect to what it does in the regions below, being generally more piceous and convex, altogether broader (in proportion) and shorter, and with _both_ sexes (though, of course, especially the male) shining.

Many species, as the common _Calathus mollis_ of our own country (to which my attention has been more particularly drawn by the Rev.

The _Calathus fuscus_, Fabr., is also, as is clear from its special attachment to the mountain tops, strictly indigenous in Madeira (that is to say, it must have arrived there during the migratory epoch); and the consequence is, that, although usually winged in our own country, it is permanently subapterous in that island.