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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING. 



Oxytropis continued. 



O. campestrls (field), ft. cream-coloured, the keels and wines 

 tinged with purple, erect ; spikes ovate-oblong, dense-flowered ; 

 scapes hairy, about equal in length to the leaves. July. 

 I., leaflets many pairs, lanceolate, acute, hoary, and rather 

 hairy, h. Sin. to 6in. Europe (Scotland). A pretty little alpine 

 plant. (Sy. En. B. 374.) 



O. fcetida (foetid), ft. cream-coloured; spikes capitate, few- 

 flowered ; scapes rather longer than the leaves, woolly at the 

 \June to August. I. with many pairs of lanceolate-linear, 

 y, glabrous leaflets. South France, &c., 1819. 



O. frigida racemosa (frigid, racemed). ft. Jin. long, in a short, 

 spike-like raceme ; peduncles longer than the leaves, hairy. 

 I. erect, pinnate, Sin. to 4in. long, having narrow-lanceolate 

 leaflets of a glaucous hue, and covered with aclpressed hairs. 

 Turkestan, 1884. Plant stemless. (R. G. 1154, f. 2, f-k.) 



O. grandlflora (large-flowered). /. of an intense rose-colour, 

 large, loosely spicate ; standard emarginate ; scape twice as long 

 as the leaves. June. I. oblong-lanceolate, adpressedly silky. 

 h. 6in. Siberia, 1820. 



O. Halleri (Haller's). fi. of a rich bluish-purple colour, rarely 

 white, in round, dense heads ; scapes solitary or twin, longer 

 than the leaves. July. I., leaflets ovate, acute. Plant stemless, 

 clothed with silky hairs in every part. h. 6in. Europe (Scotland). 

 An elegant little species for rockwork. (Sy. En. B. 373.) 



O. Lambert!! (Lambert's).* fl. rosy-carmine, large, spicate or 

 capitate ; scape rather longer than the leaves. August. L, leaflets 

 lanceolate, acute, rather remote, h. 6in. 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 (mountain).* fl. bluish, with a purplish calyx; 

 racemes short ; scape a little longer than the leaves. July. I., 

 leaflets elliptic-lanceolate. Plant almost stemless, villous, the 

 hairs on the petioles and scape spreading, h. 6in. Europe, 1581. 



O. ochroleuca (yellowish-white), 

 drooping, in short racemes ; pedunc 



fl. yellowish-white, small, 

 :les long, and, together with 

 the calyx and ovary, covered with blackish hairs. I. pinnate, 



Oxytropis continued. 



Sin. to 4in. long, with oblong-lanceolate leaflets. Stem short, 

 ascending, glaucescent. Turkestan, 1884. (R. G. 1154, f. 1, a-e). 



O. pilosa (long-haired), fl. pale yellow, disposed in ovate-oblong 

 spikes; peduncles axillary, longer than the leaves. July. L, 

 leaflets lanceolate, acute. Stem erect, softly pilose, h. 6in. 

 Siberia, 1732. (B. M. 2483 ; J. F. A. 51, under name of Astragalus 

 pilosug.) 



O. pyrenaica (Pyrenean).* fl. sky-blue, erect, crowded, on a short 

 raceme, which ultimately becomes elongated-oval; scapes set 

 with stellate hairs. Summer. L, leaflets lanceolate or oblong, 

 pointed, somewhat concave, covered with long, silky hairs. 

 h. 4in. to. 6in. 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). OED. 

 Composites. 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- 

 tings made of the half-ripened young wood. 

 O. rosmarlnifolius (Rosemary-leaved).* fl.-heads white, in dense 

 corymbs, usually terminating in numerous, small, leafy branches, 

 forming a large, leafy panicle. July. I. linear, mostly obtuse, 

 varying from under Jin. to above lin. long, the margins recurved 

 or revolute. h. (in Australia) 8ft. to 9ft. 1827. A handsome 

 shrub, hardy in the South of England. 



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