OSMUNDA. 249 



ORYZA SATIVA, L. Bice. Cult many Sp. and 



yar. little known jet : the O. mutica or Mountain Rice 



IS cult, in the West. Excellent food, and even suitable 



to invalids, convalescent, and the phthisical. Boiled in 



soups, puddings, iScc. Pilau or Sernm is the Rice boiled 



dry, the chief food of Hindus, Chinese, Turks, &c. 



Made grateful by spices, oil, butter, meat, fowls, and 



fish, their substitute for bread. The Rice flour has 8il 



per cent of starch and 5 of water, no gluten nor riugar, 



thus makes bad heavy bread- In China, Saki or Beer, 



and AVine of Rice are made, starch being turned into a 



sugary substance by fermentation, and thus yielding al- 

 cohol. 



ORYZOPSIS (Mx. bad name! or Tvd\iiiv Dilepyrum, 

 Raf. 1807) angustifolia. American Rice, Eq. to Rice, 



seeds large white, eaten by Indians,^ good flour and 

 cakes- 



OSMOSHIZA DULCIS, Raf. \Ql7.{Myrrhiscloytom 



Mx?) Sweet Sisily, Root fusiform, with a sweet smell 

 and taste, near aniseed, edible, carminative^ expecto- 

 rant, demulcent, useful for coughs with Malva, for flatu- 

 lent bowels with Heradnim, Eq. to Angelica. Child- 

 ren are fond of this root, may be poisoned by mistaking 

 for it, two sp, of the same Genus or Myrrhls Auct. called 

 z>.- , r. , , rr. -^^ jistinguished bvthe rootless 



aromatic, foliage the sanie, but in O. dulcis base of the 

 foUoles acute,*in myO. vilosaor 3L longistylis obtuse, in 

 O. cordatali^f, cordate. These last produce, when eat- 

 en, effects verv similar to those of the virulent Umbellate. 

 The YarJiah of the Shoshonis is my Osm? echdis (per- 

 haps OxypoliSj) the roots are tuberose fasciculated, fu- 

 siform nodose, w^hite, smell like aniseed. Esculent, 

 make fine meat and cakes. 



OSMUNDA, Ia. Hut tie snake Fern. Many Sp. nearly 

 Eq. Roots demulcent, sub-astringent, corroborant, _ dis- 

 cutient, esculent. O. spectabilis gives a fine mucilage 

 boiled in milk, like arrow root, useful in diarrhea, dysen- 

 tery, cholera infantum, phthisis, &c. a topicsl discutient, 

 0^ ci7mamomea Eq. of Tussilago veraiifuge besides, 

 used also in rachitis and i-uptures. Ei*ten bv Indians, 

 deemed aphrodisiac, O. vir/^rnira deemed eni 

 I>ite3 of R.attks^nukgs, 



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