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ORY 
san a prodizious quantity of the grain is required.—It 
i ar error 
Oryza, in Gardeni ing, contains plants of the exotic an- 
nual kind, of which the fpecies is rice ale fativa). 
There are feveral varieties of it, n 
mmon Rice, which has the a oi feet high ; 3 the 
panicle fpiked. the {pikes commonly fimple; the fruit ob- 
is late, and is cut from fix 
with ona wns. 
from einer: 
The Dry, or Mountain Rice, has the culm three feet high, 
and more flender ; the fruit longith, with awns the longeft 
of all. It is fown on mountains, and in dr 
The Clammy Rice has culm ae feet high $ 3 the ee 
ee yellowith ; panicle large, orter awns ; 
oblong, largith, glutinous, ofl very white. 
is * cultivated both in wet and dry p 
aries with a black feed, hick. is higher avout 
and ‘allo with a red feed. 
And there are fome other varieties. 
Method of Culture. —Thefe plants may be increafed by 
feeds in the early fpring. They fthould be rome on a 
hot-bed, and when the plante are come 
This 
t mu 
ept in the ftove all the fummer, and ' 
will produce the grain, eich ill 
ripen tolerably well, provided the autumn prove favourable 
for the plan 
They afford variety in the hot-houfe colle¢tions. 
ORYZEUM, a name given by many of the chemical 
writers to gold. 
_ SIS, in Botany, from ogués, rice, and olssy 
afpeG or refemblance, a the plant has the habit of rice ; 
a faulty appellation given by 
which prohibits fuch 
names. i -Amer. v. I. §1. 
v. 2. 397.—Clafs and order, Triandria Monogynia. Nat. 
Ord. Gramina. 
Gen. Ch. Cal. Glume fingle-flowered, of two nearly 
equal, ‘trouily elliptical, fomewhat keeled, oe ribbed 
valves, the roader, and rather Cor, en- 
ith an annular Slike hairs ; ; its 
oval 
e. 
ele a little longer than 
e ut wny at the 
edge; f{tigmas two, oe capl ne , minutely glandular, 
and downy. Seed fo 
ff. Ch. Calyx of t ae valves, ag flowered. 
f twd a the outermoft aw Near 
linear ay 
i. (per ifolta. Michaux t. 9.—Native of the chai 
of moun‘ te from Hudfon’s Bay to Quebec. Stems (eal 
unbranched, with one or two knots; leafy at the bottom. 
Coroila 
ry of two 
OSA 
Loweft leaf almoft as long as the ftem, linear-lanceolate, 
acute; upper one rigid, 
edge 
Flower. racemofe pan not numerous, 
refembling thofe of rice in general afpe®, but totally un- 
like’ in ftru€ture, the calyx being moft hke the corolla of 
Vahl, after Richard, defcribes the ° Sy le as three- 
cleft, tho*gh the /ligmas are {aid to be but t 
ORZERO, in Geography, a town of Titra in the gulf of 
Venice, near the fea ; ; 5 miles N. of Rovigno. N. lat. 45° 
3. E. long. 13° 
Bon 
Os Argenieum, in Natural Hi ifory, the name of a fpecies 
po ae fifh, of the Turbo geuus. Sce Turso 4rgyro/- 
08 adie the Golden Mouth, a name given to a {pecies 
fthe Turbo. See haeaae Chryfoflomu 
” Os Ca lis s, in Anatomy. See faraeuiniis ( Foot). 
Os Calcis, tad See Luxat 
See srl ee ae Carp 
See ExTreE cones 
See aoe iad 
See Cran 
Os Externum and ZInternum ” Uleri 3 
front opening of the 
the former 
is the 
vagina: th>- lat er, called alfo os tne 
is the aperture of the uterus in the vag.na. See GEn 
TION. 
Os Femoris. See EXTREMITIES. 
Os Frontis. See CRANIUM. 
Os Humeri. See EXTREMITIES. 
Os Hyoid.s. See eee 
Os Shum. See Int 
Os [nnominatum. See : Eanes 
L, 
Os I/chit. See Iscuium, and Pane EM 
Os Lunare ee NARE Os, and EXTREMITIES. 
Ossa u LARIA, and C 
See Exrnewrties 
Ossa, Naf. See Nos 
Ossa, Palati. See Pea and Cran 
Ossa, Parietalia. See PARIETALIA Ofts and CRANIUM. 
doris. See STERNUM, and Extr IE 
ee Pugis, and ExTREMITIES. 
e M 
fifb-bone. 
See SPHENOIDES, and CRANIUM. - 
See CRANIUM. 
Os Tince. See UTERUS, — Os Externum. 
For other fone s not above enumerated, fee CRANIUM, 
ean and cope See alfo FracTuRE, 
and Lux 
Os 
S, or Of i in Geography, a town of Brabant ; 10 miles 
N.E. of Bois-le-Duc. 
OSA, ariver of Etrri, which runs into the fea, N. lat. 
42° 38. E. long. 11° 12.—Alfo, a town of in be 
government of Berm, 0 on the Kama ; 80 miles S.W. of 
erm. N. lat. 56°56’. E long. 53 
° 54! 
Osa de la Lise ae a town of Spain, in New Cattile ; 
36 miles S. of 
OSACEA, a pee town of Japan, in the ifland of 
Niphon 
