OSM 
took his soe and Ofrnan was killed by = mufket- 
thots. This was in the month of September, . Mo- 
veri. Univer. Hig. Frazer’s Life Pe Nadir- ‘eh, &e. 3 
2. 
Osman 1., emperor of the Turks, was the fon of Ach- 
met [., on fucceeded his uncle Muftaphain 1618. He de- 
clared war againft Poland in 1621, but after — “— 
he was obliged to conclude a difadvantageous pea t- 
tributing his want of fuccefs to the Jan lee he rrefelved 
to fubftitute a militia of Arabs in their roo ich fo pro- 
voked them, that they depofed him, and pied Muftapha 
on the throne, who caufed Ofman to be ftrangled in 1622. 
Ofman Il. fucceeded "his brother Mahomet in 1754, and 
died in 1757. 
Osman fAgas} in Geography, a town of Walachia ; 22 miles 
S.W. of Galac 
OSMANDGIK, a cae of Afiatic Turkey, in the ee 
vernment of Sivas ; ua miles N.W. of Sivas. N. lat. 
45'. E. long. 35°10 
OSMANTHUS, in Botany, a name given by Loureiro 
to the Olea fragrans, alluding to its odoriferous flowers. Se 
LEA. 
OSMERIJ, in Ichthyology. See Sam 
aphy, a town of Deca: 28 miles 
SMITES, in Botany, a Linnean genus, whofe name, 
derived from ocun, a fmell, or favour, is expreffive of its 
very powerful odour. Linn. Gen. 44 chre eu 
Willd. Sp. Pl.v. 3. 2258. Mart. Mill. Dia. v. 2. a 
186. Lamarck Did. v. 4. 647. Illuftr.t.704. Ger 
t. 174. (Bellidiaftrum ; Vailt Mem. Par. 1720.)— Chale 
and order, Syngenefia Polygamia Prufranca. Nat. Ord. Com- 
baht te sont ae Linn. Corymbifere, Juff. 
n. Common calyx ao gibbous ; the inner 
Cor. compound, radiated ; 
any crown; or borde 
one; in the female fee wrottly abortive or imperfe® rudi- 
ments. Recept. chaffy. 
eceptacle chaffy. Down obfolete. 
= radius ligulate. Calyx imbricated, fcaly. 
ellidiaft: pe Pl. (Anthemis 
30. )—~Leaves linear, downy. 
fhrubby, {carred 
Florets of 
» feffile, feveral together at the ends 
of Me flem at and asia ‘as difle yellow, and radius white. 
2. O. deniata. unb, Prodr. 163.— 
Leaves obovate, toothed, “villofe. or uative of the Cape of' 
Good Hope, adopted on the authority of Thunberg. 
are not acquainted wal either a ne or figure of this 
Mant. 
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Hope.— Stems quite fimple, wave 
a fingle head of flowers. Leaves moe *feflile, deeply fer- 
rated or toothed, naked, gradually {maller towards the top, 
Von. RXV. 
OSM 
much oe thofe of Chry/anthemum os the 
Ox-eye Daify. —Flow ers capitate, terminal, a yellow 
he whole plant has avery ftrong 
ence its name. 
erifecides. Linn. Sp. Pl. 1285. (Leucanthe- 
mpho ratum, foliis craffis, anguttis acutis 5 
t.§8.f. 1. eaves ovato- lanceolate, 
owny, dotted, obfoletely ferrulated.—Native of the Cape. 
— Stem thick, Leaves alternate, thickly 
Flowers capitate, termi- 
of camphor is not 
a in sit feces as in the cai ing. 
5. lycina. yft. Veg. ed. 14. 783. 
380. fee a ; Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 
Thunb. Prodr. 163.)— Leaves lanceolate, naked, Calyx 
remarkably fcaly.—Like all the preceding fpecies, a native 
of the ope.— Stem i 
ferous, not say aati branches a little down 
row, lanceolate, naked or fli htly 
saat ftriated, veined beneath. Flowers terminal, feffile, 
y 
e 
See Dr. Smith’s reafons for retaining this laft {fpecies as an 
pee under the article Laverrousia of this work. 
OSs » in Chemiffry, a fimple fublance, and one of 
the mee We have already ftated, under the article Ir. 
DIU 
form cooling # it concretes into a ie 
P bk mais. 
This fubftance is foluble in — and poffeffes fimilar 
hat obtained from the alkaline folution. 
not 
The moft remarkable property oe, this era is its not — 
oxydated by any of the acids, although it eafily combines 
with the oxygen of the atmofphere, and with vine arifing 
from the decompofition of nitric, above late 
It is nat lefs 
4N 
nd ATA) east 
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