OPH- 
fufficient to diftinguifh them. ‘The point of the /caf how- 
f 
ever varies in acutenefs. 
3. O. nudicaule. Linn. Suppl. 443. Swartz Syn. 397. 
t. 4. f. 2. (O. lufitanicum; Thunb. Prodr. 171.) — Spike 
radical. Leaf ovate, obtufe, fomewhat ftalked. teed 
Hope. About half 
4. O. luftanicum. Lino. 1, 1518. Tansee Iluftr. 
t. 864. f. 3. (O. ang afifolium minimum ; Barr. Ic. t. 272. 
£. 2.)—Spike from . ftem. Leaf lanceolate——Native of 
t. m the: a “Leaf Hnear-lanceolate 
ene ‘riblefs. —Gathered by Koenig, in {ton ftur 
the coaft of Malabar, i olland, by fir Jof. Poke 
any of the foregoing, being only tw 
e fpi e is fcarcely Fase 
inches high, and very flender 
mounted by any point, or barren pee ee which m f 
the former a 
Bro —Spike from the ftem. 
Leaf fee clear. Galerie reticulated with veins. 
thered by rown at Port Jackfon, as well a 
We know it from his 
— 
the tropical Bel of New Holland. 
crotalophoroides : att. Carol. 25 
Leaf ovate, fomewhat heart- fhaped, obtufe. 
balbe us.—Native o ground in South Carolina. 
Rather ne Sal _ O. lufitanicum ; rema ile for its glo- 
bofe bulbous 7 The fi e is ’ ointe 
8. en ee Linn. Sp. 1518. Lamarck Illuftr. 
t. 864. f. 2. (O. corda sam et reticulum: lum. Fil. 3 ie 
t.1 64.)—Native of the nd We ee not unc 
mon. This is larger than ‘the vulgatum, and readily kno 
by its broad heart-fhaped, wavy af, ftr oni ceed 
with numerous v 
eins. 
9 endulum. Linn. Sp. Pl. 1 i (Scolopendria 
major h. in. , — Spike 
ftalked, from near the middle of the ae iineac frond. 
Native of woods boina and the ifland of Mauritius, 
hanging from the branches of old trees. It was alfo foun 
by the late Mr. D elfon, on the lofty mountains of 
whyhee, as appears fine fpecimens in the Bankfian 
herbarium he roots confift of long {mooth fibres, like 
thofe of a oO end: onds feveral, 
mooth, entire, taperin e end, rarely 
nearer the bafe than the extremity of the centre of 
frond, folitary, eevee or three inches long, 
ne) 
pofe very n a crowded cap/ules, an @cnlly 
upped with a fal poi 
ee fer tum. Lis n. Sp. Pl.1g18. Plum. Fil. 139. 
ilies feveral, ier Aiea — the «wedge- 
of eae 
mier. 
This 
res of 
cept being m argin € 
upper part . -ceeply palmate, crcl ribbed or pqenes 
wavy, but en 
OPH 
OPHIOMANCY, OPinjcavleraey compounded of o fis, @ 
Serpent, and pxilex, divination, in Antiquity, the art of making 
predictions from ferpents us Calchas, on feeing a fer- 
pent devour eight {parrows with their dam, foretold the du- 
lace to 
- a enim gyros, feptena volumina traxit.”’ 
OPHIOMORPHITES, in Natural Hiffory, the name 
given by fome authors to the foflils called more ufually 
» a name given by fome to the eagle, 
vulture, and fome a birds of prey which are fometimes 
feen to feed on ferp 
Pliny gives the ome : opiepies: to a certain people of 
fEthiopia, whom he defcribes as very bar 
ing always naked, and feeding on ferpents, whence the 
appellation. Solinus, who generally relun ae is im- 
perfectly, has perverted his me aning ftrangely in this paf- 
fage, having placed the ii in Ania Felix, inftead 
of /E 
IOR 
{pecific for the bite of the Nagha, or Ribband Snake 
is genus was originally cal.ed Mitreola by Licneus, 
being the Mi f Houtt (See Mirrgota.) Linn. 
1. Zeylan. 190, and 239. Gen. 85. Schreb. x11. 
illd. Sp. Pl v. x. 826. Mart. Mill. Did. v. 3. 
Michaux. Boreal-Amer. v. 1. 148. Juff. 143. Lamarck 
i 4. 563. Illuftr. t. 107. Gaertn. t. 55. Clafs 
and ‘order, iogeerlag Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Stellata, 
Linn. Gentiane, 
Cal. inferior, of one leaf, ereét, compreffed, 
five-toothed, equal, permanent. ne petal, funnel. 
fh 
upw as two, a} 
broad, cpa obi vided into two, oblong, divarinate d 
is of t lls, burfting inwardly; the partition con- 
r Seeds ie ue angulated, fixed round an oblon 
fhalbed co cpacke Joofe in the middle of each ce 
Ef. Ch. orolla funnel-fhaped Germen cloven. 
sa ar two. Capfule two-lobed. 
O. Mungos. Linn. Sp. Pl Mat. Med. 59. 
t. Plenck. t. go.—Leaves Leone: OV ate. —Native of 
the Eaft Indies. Stem fimple. Leaves sr Te ai 
entire, {mooth, with obliquely penis nerves. 
alk eae the ftem _ of fimple or cloven 
anner as 
al Toke 
2. O. MY; 
t. 3+ f. 2 
itreola, Linn 213. Swartz. Obf. so. 
“(Mitreola 5 ey. Clift 492.)—Leaves ovate. 
—Native 
