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of lateral fhoots, projecting a little beyond the pani ha 
affine. aoe Straight-leaved Briftle-emofs. Schrad. 
Spicil. 67. l. Brit. n. 2. En ot. t. 1323. 
(Polytrichum pfs feffilibus, foliis brevibus reétis carl- 
natis; Dill. Mufc. 432. t. 55. f. 10?)—Stem_ branched. 
Leaves lanceolate, keeled, revolute, {preading. Veil flightly 
drenate. Inner fringe of eight teeth.—More frequent per- 
haps than the foregoing, on rocks, old walls, cottage _ 
differs from that f{pecies in having paler eaves, a 
frit “ae more elongated as it grows older, capfule fied 
e, but efpecially an inner fringe of only eight 
ee or rather fimple inflexed briitles, not jointed except 
j when very old. 
O. sa ten Elegant Smooth Briftle-mofs. Engl. 
Bot. t. 1787.—-Stem fomewhat branched. Leaves lanceo+ 
late, keeled, ievcliite, beardlefs, flightly twifted when dry. 
Inner fringe of fixteen cae Capfule with eight fur- 
rows, by Mr. Winch and Mr. Thorn- 
hill, on trees in various sant of the county of Durham, 
fince the publication of Fl. Brit. The lems form tufts, 
not half an inch high. eaves bright green, lanceolate, 
' acute, beardlefs, fingle-ribbed ; flightly twifted, not curled, 
inge o only, are 
. anomalum. Rough Single-fringed Brifle- mol’. Hedw. 
. Mule. 162. t. 7 102. t. 37 ngl. Bot. 
1423. (Bryum itriatum 8; Linn. Sp. Pl. 1580. Poly- 
tdebum bry! ruralis facie, capfulis fefflibus, minus; Dill. 
Mufc. 431. t. 55. f. 9. 
and name of the genus better 
than fome of the former, he very hairy, till i: becomes 
bald by age. 
O. nudum, Engl. Bot. t. 1325, found on pofts in fhad 
places near rivers, is the only Britith fpecies, of this fection, 
Kies This is of a very dae hue, and has no hairs upon 
il. 
Brownianum, FI. Brit. n. 10. (Grimmia Browniana ; 
t. 
. Sowerb iy 
miflead his ufually very accurate obfervation. This plant 
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therefore oe in the genus TreTRAPHIS; fee that article 
ereafter, as well as Fringes of Mojes. 
RTHR AGORISCUS, in Jchthyology, the name ufed 
by Rondeletius, — fome other woe for the fifth more 
commonly known by the name of the mola, and called in 
Englifh ° fun See aie n Mola. 
TI, in Geography, “of Italy, in the Patri- 
monio, the fee of a bifvop, united to Caltellana ; 12 miles 
E. of Viterbo. 
ORTIBARIO, a town of the ifland of Corlica; 12 
miles S. of Pellegrin 
ORTIEN, the Ortian nome, or air for a flute of a 
very acute tone, and full of life and fire ; ae vy animat- 
ing the combatants rendered it of great ule i 
ORTIGOSA, mm Ai ie del a town of oan, in Old 
Caftile; 14 miles of Logro 
ORTIVE, Ontivus, in ‘Afiron Ortive, or eaflern 
amplitude, is an arc of the horizon intercepted between the 
point where a ftar rifes, and the ea 
or sal _ the horizon and equator interfed. 
AMPLI 
ORTO, i in a a town of Chinefe Tartary 5 
miles W. of Ham. N. lat. 43° 46’. E. long. g2°4q/. 
ORTOLAN, in Ornithology. See EMBERIZA. 
» Joz, in Biography, an eminent nonconformift 
50 
m 
the paftoral o 
0 ohnitone, an aie and flalful phyfician, who was 
Ifo his intimate acquaintance and friend. ‘Here Mr. Orton 
pent the remain hi ys zealoufly in on pro- 
moting the interefts of religion. What he could not per- 
forrn as a preacher, he was folicitous to effet as a prac- 
tical writer. is works are the “ Life of Dod- 
e;”? « Sermo ed;?? «© T mons on 
ingle difcourfes. n publifhed allo a 
ns with the title or: “ * Religions Exerife 
r Difcourfes on the heavenly see cone 
fidered a ie Idea of a Sabbath;’’ « Difco 
Subjects 
Devout R 
ture, Getigned to affilt Chriftians in their Attendance on the 
Lord’s Supper, and their imme Improvement of it.’ 
in the year 1 
ld Teftament,” in fix vols. 8vo, which probably 
did not anfwer the public expectations formed of it; anda 
{mall collection of * Let Clergyman,’’ 
ters 
which had been addrefled to the R 
the editor, and which contained advice, that is, in general, 
well 
