ORI 
Germen feffile. 
Follicle leathery. 
Style fright 
Ne@tariferous glands four. 
Seeds 
Stigma ae as 
— _ the 
verf, ifolia —Leaves flat, a toothed 
aa © agile do owny beneath. ure of the falliele 
abrupt.—Native of the higheft moun of Van Die- 
men’s Pan . 
2 voluta.— Leaves revolute, linear, entire; clothed 
with hoary down se aaa Suture of the follicle routided,— 
Found in the fam 
hefe are tubs, wth 7 lesen leaves, which are -— 
re or toot Spikes axillary or terminal, fhort, 
‘pairs af ee ae, each pair accom- 
radea. Brown. 
» in Natural Hiftory, the name of a ftone de- 
{cribed by the ancients, and celebrated by the writers of the 
F 
was round, and remained unhurt int and that fome 
called it fideritis, To this the later writers have added, that 
there are three kinds of it: the fir round and biack; this, 
The fecond was green, variegated with 
fpots of white; this was to b 
t 
have the virtue of cauling abortion, if jae carried in 
the pocket. 
RIUS Laris, a name given by Ludovicus 
other authors, to the ochreoferreous atita, 
e {tones ; particularly to a fpecies of them common 
in Germany, and ufed in the fho oe there, and in fome other 
e name of eagle ftones. Thefe are of a 
brownifh colour and fmooth farce, and are eafily broken, 
being only compofed of a thin cruft of ferruginous earth, en 
clofing feveral {mall lumps of a greenifh marle, which rattle 
in it when 
OR in ‘Bota any, a'genus of Thunberx’s, whofe 
name is of Geeta Gerivation. Schreber, on i authority 
of Dabl, fuggefts that it may poffibly be the fame plant as 
pp. 820 Plow. 1. 692. 
42 5—Claf and order, Donnas "Woansia Nat. Ord. 
uncerta 
Gen "Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, four- cleft, 
very thort. Cor. Petals four, Lo {preading. 
Filaments four, fhorter than the petals; anthers se 
4 ermen fuperior; ftyle ere&t, fhorter than the petals; 
fligma capitate, obtufe. Poric. unknown, but moft pro- 
bably a capfu'e. 
Lif. Ch. Petals four, lanceolate, flat. Calyx four-cleft. 
Stigma capitate. pfule 
Linn, Syft. Veg. ed. 14. 158. Thunb 
ative of Japan. Stem fhrabby, about fix 
feet high, fmooth, ereét, branched Branches alternate, 
{mo the extreme ones hairy. Leaves coche ftalked, 
ovate, undivided, green above, a . bene ‘owers 
in alternate, greenifh Oiled. an inch long. 
cave, oblong, {mooth, under the partial flower- fa. oe “hich 
are hairv as well as 6 thé common halle. 
VA, or OrisaBa, in Geography, a town of 
in the province of Tlafcala, fituated in a fertile 
ee furrounded with detached mountains, over hadowed 
h the ft. verdant fore e containing a one ation o 
an town 
d Negroes. 
Great quantities of to- 
ea are epeedueed in the vicinity. It has fome tanneries 
3 
ORK 
and sag a oe pl ; 5¢ miles S.E. of Puebla de los 
An the high road between Vera Cruz 
and Mexico. pane een to Alcedo, 46 leagues to a 
eaft of the capital. In its vicinity is a volcano, which i 
regarded as the moft majeftic in the vice-royalty. 1D’. At. 
teroche obferves, that the mountain Orizava is faid to be the 
al in Mexico; and its {nowy capital is vifible from the 
capital, a diftance ‘of 60 miles. This celebrated mountain 
is he fo of Mexico; not far from the road to 
Vera Cruz. It became volcanic in 1545, - conti:ued for 
20 years; fince which time there has been 
inflammation. Although the fummit d per- 
petual {now, the fides are feboeduaer ith beautiful forefts of 
and ot vigero notices its conic 
cedars, pincs, an 
form, which is sped i G at ray diftance of 50 Sia 
Some think it higher than the peak of Teneriffe. The 
tached mountains, called by the Mexicans Popacatepec wd 
Tztaccihuatl, are “e to the fouth-eaft of the capital, at the 
diftance of about miles, and are both volcanic. he 
crater of the former is ie faid to be half a mile wide, and — 
ated ae ancient eruptions. Both are covered with p 
ccmel, 
ORIZE EUS Cotor, a term ufed by authors to. exprefs 
the yellow colour of the eyes and urine of perfons afflicted 
with a jaundice. 
ORKEDAL, in tas fsa i - town of Norway, in the 
rovince of Dronthei S.W. of Drontheim. 
RK 
EL, a river a aed in the province : Dron- 
theim, ohn runs into the bay of this name ; 14 miles S.W. 
of Drontheim. 
oO ZNUD, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Schonen; 24 miles N. of Chriitianitadt. 
ee a town of Curdiltan; 36 miles E.N.E. of 
il. 
‘ORKNEY Beans, in Natural Hiffory, a name given by 
authors to a fort of fruit found on the fhores of the Orkney 
iflands near Scotland. Thefe are of feveral dikin& f{pecies, 
are none of them the produce of thefe iflands, nor of any 
but are p y of American origin, 
many 0 m being Ay natives of Jam 
They are found principally on thofe worn which are moft 
expofed to the waves of the great ocean, and are on thefe fo 
plentiful, that they might be gathered in large quantities, if 
. ae value ; ie the ed ufe they are put to, is to making 
fnuff-boxes out of them. Sir Robert Sibbald, and Mr. 
ie e, in hee secounG of a’ have both named 
them under the title of Molucca beans. 
Orkney, or Orknay Iflands, in Geegraply a clufter of 
iflands, fituated in the northern ocea 
Caithnefs, the moft northerly coun c 
reat Britain, and the Shetiand ifles, are diftant from the 
former about four, and from the ‘latter nearly twent 
leagues, The latitude of the chief town, Kirkwall, 1s com- 
puted to be 
meridian of Geciwich, 
form, as may be fuppofed, is erage irregul 
ize allo varies greatly ; fome of them being mere ie 
i incapa able of human eae souk while othe 
miles in circumfer 
ea above 30 miles in leeen from 
covers, throughout that {pace, a confiderable degree of di- 
rearance, foil, essa and elevation. 
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