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This name was given by fome of the old writers to the 
fymphytum, or comfry, from an opinion that its agginti- 
nating quality reached to the bone, and that it was of great 
fervice taken internally, in cafes of fractures 
OSTEOCOPOS, or Ostocoros - foumed from os:oy, bone, 
and xorlay, to break, cut, or cleave, is ufed by fome for an 
acute pain, in which the patient is affected as if his bones 
were br 
It rifes’ (oak a fharp humour vellicating the oe 
or membrane, with which the bones:are piles is p 
ticularly incident to fcorbutic and pocky perfou 
specter be s a technical term gone to the 
NY. “See OssIFICATION. 
OSTEOGRAPHIA _ a defcription of ae bones 5 ; 
a title which has been give Me ome anatomical wo 
OSTEOLOGY is a divition of Anatomy an treats 
of the bones. The organifation of the bones, and the prco- 
grefs of their formation, have been confidered under the 
articles Bong in Anatomy, Bone in Chemi nifiry a and the Arts, 
and Emgryo. The tae aes e defcribed in va- 
rious articles of this work: t of the Me d in CRANIUM} 
formation of the bone 
OSTE 
marrow ARY 
nal Sees by which the bones are connected, fee 
“OSTEOSARCOMA, or OsTEOSARCOSIS, in Surgery, 
a {welling, the confiftence of which is partly bone and partly 
flefh. Alfo the difeafe called mollities offium. 
OSTEOSPERMUM, in Botany, 1o named in oe 
to its hard, bony feeds, and derived from ostoy, bony, a 
me fed Linn. Gen. 448. Schreb. 585. Willd. Sp. 
Pl. v. 3. 2365. Mart. Mill. Dit. v. 3., Ait. Hort. Kew 
ed. : 275. Juff. Gen. 183 Lamarck Did. 
659. Illuftr. t. 714. Guertn. t. 168. (Monilifera; Vaill 
Mem. Par. 1720. f. Chryfanthemoides; Tourne 
Mem. Par. 1705. f. 4. 1. Gen. 9. E )—Clafs 
and order, Syngenefia Polygamia Necefaria. Nat. Ord. Com- 
pofite er Linn. Corymbifera, Juff. 
Gen Common calyx aa hemifpherical, of nu- 
merous, ee fhaped, minute leaves. Cor. compound, radi- 
ated; florets of the difk erfett, itimierous: tubular, five- 
toothed, the length of the calyx ; thofe of the radius female, 
about ten in number, ligulate, linear, three-toothed, very 
long. Stam. (in the perfect florets) Filaments five, capil- 
lary, very fhort; anthers united into a cylindrical tube. 
Pift. (in the perfe& florets) Germen very fmall;  ftyle 
thread-fhaped, “farce as oe as the, ftamens; ftigma 
florets) none: (in the female ones) folitary, nealy globofe, 
ade ae “— by age, and incloting a kernel of the 
ame Down none. Recept. naked, flat 
ff ¢ Receptacle naked. Down none. Calyx of 
many leaves. Seeds globular, coloured, bon 
b this extenfive and rather fhowy genus we find 
oy twelve 1 a Ot Pag n the Species Plantarum. In 
e 14th editi Syft. teen are miegaet ip an 
eS ‘hele Profeffor Martyn bas added two m ill 
no 
fowever has exten genus to twenty-three {pecies, 
fon which we fele@ i pie for illuftration. 
[pinofum.  Prickl eofpermum. Linn. Sp. Pl. 
1 308. Jacq. Hort. Schoen 377 oes ves 
obovate, ferrated, downy. Pecan flower-ftalks fpin nous.— 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope, flowering in September 
Os T 
and Otober. Stem round, branched, erect, from two to 
fix feet high, fhrubby, denudated and fcarred when old. 
Branches woolly when young, rather rigid, ee in 
pinous, SS ftalks, each bearing one 
f{cattered, on s, attenuated at their ae serie 
pointed, thickifh, flightly webbed with down, glaucous. 
Flowers ftar-like, folitary, yellow, se a {weet {mell. 
O. pififerum. Smooth Ofteofperm inn. Sp. 
1308. (O. fruticans, lanuginofum, folits ieien dentate ; 
Burmann. Afric. 171 t. 61. f. 2.)—Leaves ovato-lanceo- 
late, pointed, flightly ftalked, age ferrated.—This na- 
tive of the Cape was cultivated in r. Philip 
Miller. Stem four or five feet in eae much branched 
upwards, in a {preading manner. urphith. Leaves 
thick and fucculent, alternate, light green. Flowers foli- 
y, yellow, on long, axillary flalks. Seeds oval, at firft 
green, then red, and afterwards dark pu 
moniliferum. Poplar-leaved Ofteofpermum. Linn. 
Sp. 08. (Chryfanthemoides africanum, poouli albz 
ae ‘auick Dill. Elth. v. 1. 80. t. 68. 9:)— reise 
obovate, ee ftalked, fomewnat per a 
the Cape. easeraas into this country in - 
though it flowers ia. y. § 
r . ers 
ae - the branches, i es ening thofe of Senecio 
“O. icifoliam. Holly-leaved Ofteofpermum. Willd. n. 5. 
(O. a {cabris, finuofis, denticulatis; Burmann. Afric. 
172. eaves we with angular teeth, ae 
half akace the ranches furrowed.— e of 
the Cape of Good Fieve 
two feet high, pa lax. CAVE 
. ve Common y> feffile, involute at the margin, rough 
upper fide, le and almoft woolly beneath. Flowers 
trina ftalked, yello 
O Blue- lowered Ofteofpermum. Willd. . 7. 
Jacq. Te. Rar. v. . t. O. pinnatifidum 5 L’ Herit. 
Stirp. Nov. 11. rial eee pinnate ; 
toothed.—Native of ‘the Cape. 
This fhrub is about three feet in 
Root v yond, branching, 
grey. Tas pinnate, alternate, {pre adie Ng 5 “fegments sb 
long, acute, ferrated; ftalks half the length of the leaves, 
{carcely downy. Bivaers terminal, in a loofe corymb, 
ftalked, ere&t, blue. Seeds fomewhat angular and rugged, 
but, according to L’Heritier, not at all bony. 
The remaining {pecies of Offeofpermum which occur in 
Willdenow, ae h do not appear to be anywhere figured 
are as follow padi rigidum, bipinnatum, neaotbidel, 
perfoliatum, ieee. herbaceum, —_— Bidens, ciliatum, 
junceum, corymbofum, fcabrum, incanum, triquetrum, terett- 
es sil ee and polygaloides. They are all natives of 
the Ca Good Hope, and all, except rizidum, are taken 
from Thunberg’ s Prodromus 
UM, In Gardening, comprifes plants of the 
fo which the 
cuttings of the young fhoots, EN may be a ted in any 
of the fummer morths, upon a bed of light oli being 
red 
