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O. hi Lagi pony Ortegia. Linn. Sp. Pl. 49 
Cavan. Ic. v. 1. 35- (Juncarica falmanticenfis ; Cluf. 
Hift. v. 2. ia sien ‘fquare, ary. Ti talks many- 
a eg! was 
in fF aner — Root eoieieiee round, with bra 
at the lower part. Stems numerous, about a oor ine. 
jointed ; the branches oppolite, arm each other. ee 
oppofite, feffile, nearly linear, ereét, bright green. Flow 
herbaceous, minute, on fhort ftalks, fo clofe together as es 
refemble a little hea 
. dichotoma. Forked Ortegia. 
Pedem. v.2. 210. Mifcell. Taurin. v. 76. t. 4. 
Stem forked, eu, Stalks ee flowercd.—Native of 
Piedmont, and other ide of Ita eh It flowers in Augutt 
and Septem ink ewes a m erect, Jointed, ee 
Willd. n. * Allion. 
.<— 
Cole oi cea a, 7 a ‘Gal, whilft its ftructure is 
very near that of a arpo 
» in For ‘ican. See Ber 
ORTELIUS, AHAM, in Bicgrapby, a peo 
geographer in the fevers century, was born at Antw 
m the year 1527. He enjoyed the advantage of a go ad 
education, and as he had a ftrong inclination for literature, 
he made a rapid progrefs in his ftudies, and particularly ex- 
celled in the knowledge of the languages and in mathematics. 
So great was his fkill in geographical {cience, dae he obtained 
the name of the ‘* Ptolemy of the age.”? With a view to 
improve himfelf in his favourite hig! he travelled into Eng- 
land, Ireland, France, Italy, and G directing his 
ngland he formed an intimacy with 
we are informed 
maps, pena 
with fhort defcriptions of the feveral countries, and the ob- 
eae in them particularly interefting to curiofity. This - 
moft complete work that had ever appéared, and i 
obtained the author a high reputation: he was almoft im- 
mediately appointed to the poft of pecan to Philip IT. 
In the various editions called for, it under- 
king of Spain. 
«« Syno 
gra a ki a of re eraphical dictionary, 
containing fhort dled ons, in alphabetical order, of al 
the countries in the world, the mountains in thofe countries, 
was afterwards 
nima 
vings; an ee appeared 
“ Aurei Seculi Imago,” conti a Selegaan of the man- 
ORT 
ners and religion of the Germans, with illuftrative plates. 
Ortelius had collected into a mufeum a seein collee- 
tion of ancient flatues, medals, &c. a Francis 
Sweert publifhed ** Deorum, Dearum e Capita’? and 
rom the Lica which he left behind him, was pub- 
lifhed <¢ Syn erbarum Encomiafticum.” Ortelius 
ie = Aas in 1598, in the 71ft year of his age. 
ORTELSBURG, in Geography, a town of Pruffia, in 
the province of Oberland 3 68 miles N, of Konigfberg. N. 
8’. 
Germany, included between 
of 
te of Baden, the Black For eft, and 
f£ Modena, and fubfequently to the 
ORTENBERG, a town of Germany, in the county 
of Hanau Munzenburg, on the Nidder; 17 miles N E. of 
Frankfort on the Maine. 
ORTENBURG, a town and citadel of Bavaria, which 
givesnameto a county. The count and inhabitants are Lu- 
therans; 10 miles W. of Paffaa.—Alfo, a town and citadel 
of Carinthia, on the Drave ; 32 miles W. of Clagenfurt.— 
il 
Alfo, a town of Germany, in the Ortenau; two miles 
S.E. of Offenbur rg. 
ORTH, atown of Auitria; eight miles E. of Entzer- 
ftorff. 
HE'S, a town of ine and sd a place of a 
on 7 pl he Lower Pyrenées; 30 miles 
The ee olen 6738, ae the canton 
14,032 rahabitante on a terr itory of 1924 iyetiaa, in 
13communes. N. lat. 43°2 2's 
HIA, in Ancient Geography, a pee of the Pelo. 
ponnefus, in Arcadia. 
OrtHIA, in Mythology, the furname of Diana, who had 
a a at Drees 
ORT AN. arte Orthian nome, in Greek Mufic, was a 
da€tylic cae invented, according to fome, by old Olympus 
the Phrygran, and according to others by the Myfian. It 
was in finging this Orthian nome rodotus a Aulus 
Gellius, that Arion precipitated himfel ra the fe 
ORTHOCERAS, in Botany, from ofo:y frosts and 
xepcc, @ horn, a oo of f Orcidee, feparate by Mr. Brown, 
Prodr. Nov. Hol ie fem iss count of 
the more rin ae whofe two lower calyx- se ie are 
rae Soe = its fas diminutive and cohering. ‘The o 
{peci 
«Rei ium, a native of Port Jackfon, New South Wales. 
The dulbs are undivided. We are inclined to refer this plant 
to Druris; fee that article. - 
ORTHOCERATITES, in Natural Hiftory, a name 
by which fome authors have called a {pecies of fea-ihell, found 
frequently foffile, but not known at prefent in its recent 
ftate ; called by others polythalamium, and tubulus marinus 
concameratus. it is ufually ee but fometimes its end 
is Alia like the eoinu ammonis. See Tuputt Conca- 
! 
“ORTHOCOLON, From opo:, frraight, and xwror, a limb. 
ee ANCHYLOSIS. 
ORTHODORON, ing th an ancient Greek long mea- 
fure ; being the {pace from the carpus, or wrift, to the tips 
of the fingers, rated at eleven ee 
ORTHODOXY, formed from op§os, right, and dokety 
opinion, judgment, a {oundnefs of dvétrine or belief, with re- 
gard to all the points and articles of fait 
According to the proper etymology of the word, ortho- 
doxy 
