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THE DICTIONARY 
OF GARDENING. 
Oxytropis—continued. 
0. (field). fl. cream- coloured, the keels and win, 
tinged with gap to erect; spikes ovate-oblong, dense-fiow : 
al 
sca 3 
l, leaflets man |1 
hairy. h. 3in. to 6in. Europe (Scotland). A pretty little alpine 
plant. (Sy. En. B. 374.) 
O. foetida (fcetid). „. cream-coloured; spikes capitate, few- 
flowered ; scapes rather 1 than the leaves, woolly at the 
. June to August, l. with many pairs of lanceolate-linear, 
y, glabrous leaflets. South France, &c., 1819. 
O. frigida racemosa (frigid, racemed). f. hin. long, in a short, 
spike-like raceme ; — ph longer than the leaves, $ 
l. erect, pinnate, to 4in. long, having narrow-lanceolate 
leaflets of a glaucous hue, and covered with adpressed hairs. 
Turkestan, 1834. Plant stemless. (R. G. 1154, f. 2, f-k.) 
0. 8 (large-flowered). AH. of — 8 
e, loosely spicate ; standard emarginate; scape twice as long 
a4 the conte” Jeane l. oblong-lanceolate, adpressedly silky, 
h. 6in, Siberia, 1820. 
O. Haller (Haller’s . of a rich bluish. purple colour, rarel 
white, in —— — Co ol scapes solitary or twin, loner 
than leaves. July. l, ets ovate, acute, Plant stemless, 
clothed with silky in pint pari: h. bin. ba n 
An elegant little species for rockwork. (Sy. En. B. 578.) 
J. Lambertii (Lambert’s).” . rosy-carmine, large, spicate or 
=- capitate ; scape rather longer an the leaves, August, T leaflets 
lanceolate, acute, rather remote. A. Ein, to 12in. North America 
1811. Plant stemless, silky and pilose in every part. A rare and 
beautiful rock-plant. (B. M. 2147; B. R. 1054.) 
O. montana ee A. bluish, with a purplish calyx; 
racemes short; scape a little longer than the leaves. July. Z, 
leaflets elliptic-lanceolate. Plant almost stemless, villous, the 
hairs on the petioles and scape spreading. h. in. Europe, 1581, 
ochroleuca (yellowish-white), . yellowish-white, small, 
drooping, in short racemes; pesano es long, and, together with 
the calyx and ovary, covered with blackish hairs. l. pinnate, 
pairs, lanceolate, acute, hoary, and rather 
Oxytropis—continued. 
Zin. to Ain. long, with oblong-lanceolate leaflets. Stem short, 
ascending, glaucescent. Turkestan, 1884. (R. G. 1154, f. 1, a-e). 
O. pilosa (long-haired). f. pale yellow, disposed in ovate-oblong 
spikes ; 3 axillary, longer than the leaves. July. ., 
leaflets lanceolate, acute. Stem erect, softly pilose. h. 3 
. 1752. (B. M. 2483; J. F. A. 51, under name of Astragalus 
pilosus. 
O. pyrenaica (Pyrenean).* H. sky-blue, erect, crowded, on a short 
raceme, which ultimately becomes elongated-oval; scapes set 
with stellate hairs. Summer. l., leaflets lanceolate or oblong, 
inted, somewhat concave, covered with long, silky hairs. 
4in. to bin. Central Pyrenees. 
OXYURA. Included under Layia (which see). 
OYSTER PLANT. See Mertensia maritima. 
OYSTER SCALE. See Scale Insects. 
OZOTHAMNUS (from ozein, to smell, and thamnos, 
a shrub; alluding to the odour of the plant). ORD. 
Composite. A genus comprising a considerable number 
of species of greenhouse or nearly hardy, mostly Austra- 
lian shrubs, rarely sub-shrubs or herbs, now included, 
by Bentham and Hooker, under Helichrysum. Flower- 
heads small; involucre oblong, ovoid, or campanulate; 
inner bracts usually with small, coloured, radiating tips. 
The species described below thrives in almost any soil, 
and is readily propagated, in summer, by means of cut- 
sings made of the half-ripened young wood. 
O. rosmarinifolius emary-leaved).* A. ite, i 
corymbs, usually 3 5 3 Leaf A 
forming a large, leafy panicle. July. Z. linear, mostly obtuse, 
varying from under zin, to above lin. long, the margins recurved 
or revolute. A. (in Australia) 8ft. to 9ft. 1827. A handsome 
shrub, hardy in the South of England. 
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