ORO 
Stipulas fomewhat f{pinous.—Native of = Pyrenées, and 
of Carniola. We have feen no fpecim @ root is 
The fem is faid by Sosa to be an- 
gular, and in fome degree winged. Leaflets ovate-oblong, 
with flightly hairy ribs beneath. Flowers racemofe, pen- 
dulous. Standard red, marked with darker lines. Legume 
ark downy. 
. O. risa Tufted Wood Bitter-vetch, Lin 
Sp. 1 1029. Sm. FI. Brit. n. 2. ot. t. 538. 
Light, Scot. 390. t. 16. (Vicia caffubic Ie 
t. 98, but not of Linnzus. )—Stems b ached, aecaa hea, 
innate, with numerous ovato-lanceolate, 
Stipulas ia e 
feeds. — 
ay or June. The root is ftrong and peren Sie 
numerous, angular, Cat branched after flowering. 
he ver 
ets, . Though this ac 
has been much cultivated, it has never yet been known to 
produce flowers. 
roleucus. Buff a eaieeas Willd. n. 13. 
—Stem branched, 
with a ou, a el 
The corolla is pale fulphur-coloured, 0 
Profeffor Martyn defcribes tn more f{pecies, ah Miller 
received from Houtt they ave not been admitted 
SS in Nas to afcertain hae r gen 
n Gardening, contains ola. of the hardy, her- 
beccous ‘Gbroue rooted, hae nial flowery kind, of which the 
{pecies cultivated are: upright biter-retch (O O. lathy 
roides) ; the haeaae bitter-seth if eus); the fring 
bitter-vetch (O. v erous peieaeen ch (O. 
tuberofus); the bie bitter-vetch (O. niger) ; and the Py- 
renean eaaaah (O 
Of the third there are nde with eee flowers, with 
pale blue flowers, with dee e 
The fourth fort is fometimes ailed avood pea and heath- 
ae Method of Culture. —All the oe - capable of being in- 
creafed by feeds and parting the ro The feed fhould be 
fown in the beginning of the cian, as in September or 
Odtober, in the clumps, igi pies or other parts Phere they 
are to remain, or on a bed o earth, to be afterwards 
pricked out and baniplaed: "The plants fhould be kept 
perfectly free from weeds. 
The roots of the large plants may be parted in the autumn, 
and immediately planted out where the plants are to grow 
The {mall roots may be fet in nurfery meee a remain 
gar sees Te for being finally planted o 
They are all hardy flowering ornamental gat for the 
eed clamps ad other parts of pleafure grounds. 
n till 
ORO 
OROCONITES, in the Materia Medica, a name given 
by Hippocrates, and others, to a bulbous root that is re- 
commended as arich food. It has the name from the Greek 
opacy a mountain, and xowres, of a conic Sigure. This fhews that 
it was a root of fuch a fhape, found growing in mountainous 
places ; but the learned have been puzzled in their attempts 
to find out what it w 
ORODADA, in " Gegrapy. a town of Peru, on the 
coaft ; fix miles S.W. of P 
OROE, an ifland of een at the S. end of the 
Little Belt, about twelve miles long, and two wide ; eight 
Tone, > pee the ifland of Funen. N. lat. 54° 59’. E. 
on the E. fide of the ifland of Oroe. N. lat. 
long. 10° 23'. 
OROMASDES, in Mythology. See Onosmangs. 
OROMOECTO, in Geography, a river of New Brunf- 
wick, which runs into St. John’s river, N. lat. 45°48. W. 
long. 66° 40', and by which the Indians have a communica- 
tion with Potamigrodiy bay. 
OROMTCHI, a town of Thibet; 
Manas-Hotun. N. lat. 44° 58'. 
O » or Oron la Ville, a town = Aceeneel in the 
canton of Berne; fix miles N. of Vev 
ORONDOCKS, an Indian tribe a live near Trois 
Riviéres, and who could furnifh, between 30 and 4o years 
ago, 100 warriors 
ORONHI, a ‘oun of Thibet, 38 miles W. of Yolotou- 
Hotun. 
ORONO ’s Istanp, a {mall ifland in the river Penobfcot. 
ORONSAY, one of the weftern iflands of Scotland, 
which is a {mall ifland only at high water, on the N. coaft 
of North Uiit, of which tt makes a part at low water. N. 
lat. 57° 39. W. long. 7° 16), 
ORONTES, or oe ariver of Syria, which {prung 
towards N. lat. 33° 30', between Libanus and Antilibanus, 
and ran into the Mediterranean, abot fix leagues below An- 
tioch. It watered, in its courfe towards the north, Emefa, 
lon 
8 ROESKIOBING, a fea-port of Denmark, fituated 
4° 58'. E. 
48 miles E. of 
86° 
rontes, as well as that of the Jordans fays 
this fee are {carcely | 60 paces wide at their mouths, and 
Orontes w 
boats might be towed up this river, though they could not 
fail up, on account of the rapidity of its ftream; and thus 
Antioch would better ferve as an oe to the Europeans 
than Aleppo. The wxatives, who r knew the name 
Orontes, call it, on account of the fwiftoels of its ftream, 
6s Fl-Aufi,”’ rendered by the Gree 
OrRoON FES, 
