ONO 
aang terminal, about three together, large, lilac or rofe- 
colou hors mention a variety of this {pecies with 
shite: ie 
O. rotunif, Linn. Sp. Pl. roro. Curt. Mag. t. 359. 
—Stalks about three-lowered. Leaves ternate, ae 
ti 
them pale yellow. It isa taller plant than the laft, with 
wider leaflets. 
Sed. Dubious. 
In this fe@ion Willdenow enumerates fix {pecies, all taken 
rte Pe onetas 8 Prodromus, an “A hea ves of the Cape of 
d Hope, and quite unknown 
“oa 8, in Gardening, coats une of the fhrubby 
kind, of which the {pecies principally apace ede are ; the 
ellow- flowered fhrubby reft-har 3; the three- 
tooth-leaved Paeuertta (O. trident ntata); ie fhru y reft- 
harrow (O. fruticofa); and the round-leaved reft- aoe 
{O. rotundifolia). 
ut there are other fpecies both of the annual and peren- 
nial kinds, that may be cultivated for variety. 
e third fort varies with white flower. 
may nto 
Tt may kewl be in- 
though this fort is pretty hardy when he winters are 
not very fevere, a few plants fhould always be kept in the 
greenhoufe. And as it is apt to grow out of form it fhould 
b itaay ya well cut in, and rew plants be frequently raifed 
‘from fe 
hee lants aoa — pcre! in pots. ‘They do not 
flower until the fe 
econd fort thou late pid = = in pots and 
placed in a mild hot or rm fheltered 
border, in the early tay 3 but ihe “fifi is & the bet method, 
the plants being ie erwards manage ender plants, 
bane either the i of the gr Seanbate or 
And the opens fort fhould have the feeds fown in the 
‘early {pring on an open border, the ae i afterwards 
“properly thinned and kept clear from may like- 
wife be raifed from flips plante eafo 
It is very hardy, and ge leatie little trouble in i cultivation. 
Thefe are all plants w afford ornament and variety in 
the borders, or among < potted plants of the green- 
‘-houfe-kind. 
ONONYCHITES, formed from ove, a/s, and ows hoof, 
fomething that has hoofs like the feet of an afs. 
ONONYCHITEs was an appellation which the heathens in 
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3 
ONO 
the firft century gave the God of the noire ae 
they owned and adored the fame God with oi roo 
it was a notion (however it ee its rife), a 
Tacitus, Hift. lib. v. cap. 3. that the Mrackites, mich afflicte 
with thirft, were led to a ing by an als goi ~ to rink ; 
and that, in gratitude for the benefit, they wi fhipped a 
re 5 i that the Chriitians did fo ikeWile. "See Pertull. 
whimfica 
difficult to d ine. (See LycorErpon.) n. Gen. 
4co. S . 538. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. 1686. Mart. 
Mil. Di&. v. 3. Sm. Fl. Brit, 856. Prod Fl. Gree 
Sibth. v. 2. 155. Ait. Hort. ed. I 146. 
Juff. 173 Lamarck Dia. ; - Ill - 664. 
Gaertn. t. 161.—Clafs aad or srder, Syngenefia Polygania 
ualis. Nat. Ord. Compoftte Capitate, Linn. Cina 
an Juff, 
Gen. Ch. mon calys« roundith, giana imbricated 
with numerous, Tpinoue {cales, prominent every way. or. 
oh 
es 
ee ct 
° 
re} 
> 
~~ 
of the corolla, 
with a crown. Perie 
pon calyx. 
ecept. {caly; the fcales ie into cells, truncated, 
mucronated, ry than the 
x {welling, c var {preading and f{pinous. 
— elas, alittle fealy. 
e ium. Cotto on Thi, or oy narnia 
dum. ne Sp. Pl. 1158. Engl. Bot. t. 977. 
Lond. fate. 1. = ts anne —Caly Py ie 
{preading eve ery — ‘awl-thaped. Leaves eteatlcs 
finuated, woolly on both fides.—This native of Britain, ‘ 
very con{picuous plant, occurs partially in wafte ground 
about towns, on a gravelly foil, a in July or Auguft. 
—Root biennial, Ip aig em erect, five feet high, 
with decurrent, fpinons leaves. Flowers 
c eb, which is e eeds 
faid to be a —_ ite a with “the ate Fringilla 
cada . Linnzus. 
O. éauricum. 'Tartarian Onopordum. Willd. n. 2. 
_Calys. feales {preading every way. Leaves deca 
fmooth on both fides, finuated, toothed, {pinous.—Native 
habit to the lat, but perfectly 
ecimen. 
re 3. O. macrocanthum. Morocco or cee aes Onopor- 
dum. Willd. n. 3. Schoufb. Marocc. 198. t. 5 —Calyx 
{cales much fpreading, as leng as ae calyx. Leaves de- 
urrent cele pee pesiione {pinous; radical ones 
pinnate.—Nat pire of Morocco.—Dr. Sib- 
chore found i it in ae Archipelago o0.— This alfo is taken from 
Willdenow, who merely fays that he faw a living ee 
