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picture gallery’ in this edifice a a large collection of 
portraits. Beauties of England Wales, vol. xiii. by 
J. Nightingale and R. Rylance, and vol. xvii. by J. Eva 
OSWIECZIN, a town ee — ,» in the ease ‘of 
W. of Cra 
gyptian on kis ng, and 
ry, caufed a coloffa 
» on which was this infcrip- 
tion ; fymandyas, king of kings ; whoever will dif- 
de at title with me, let him furpafs my works.”? Mo- 
S 
‘OSYRI IS, in Botany, ocpeis Of —— which . de- 
{cribes as ** a {mali fhrub, with numerous, dark, tough 
branches ;”’ fo ae profeffor Martyn’ sconjeGural ates 
of the name from o%sc, @ branch, is very probably jut. Some 
take Antirrhinum Linaria for the true ee G 
oe i 1 
iw) 
5 
ed. I. v. 3. Ae Illuftr. 
Cafia ; Tourn, t. 488. \—Class and order, Dioesia Triandria. 
Nat. Ord . Calyciflore, Linn. Eleag: 
Gen . Male, Cal. Perianth OF one leaf, turbinate, in 
three e equal, ovate, acute, {prea 
roundifh, fmall. Pf. an abortive rudimen 
Female, Cal. fhaped hke that of the ale fuperior, per 
manent, very {m {mall. Cor. none, as inthe male. Stam. 
in the male, but abortive. Germen ee jnfe. 
i three de °F 
ES 
Ea. Ch. Male, Calyx three-cleft. Corolla none. 
Female, Calyx three-cleft. Corolla none. Stigma in 
three deep fegments. Drupa umbilicated, of one cell. 
Nut glcbofe. 
I . alba. Poet’s Cafia, or Gardrobe. Linn. Sp. Pl. 
145 Scop. Carn. v. 2.260. (Cafia poetica mon{pelien- 
ae 3; Camer. Epit oetica Lobeliis; Ger. em. 
e 2 
3.) —Leaves linear-obovate. Flower-ttalks axillary.— 
Nave of the fouth of Europe. 
alee ftalks. Fruit eae the fize of a curran 4 
ari would unite under this genus the Eleagnus and 
Hippophae of Linnzus, to which he was Jed by theoretical 
principles, without — to nature, or to genvine rules of 
lon arrangemen 
ae ica. Iapanet a hae Thunb. Jap. 31. M 
a i e d. 81.—Leaves ovate. 
Flower-italks fom oe rib of the leaf Native of mountains 
in Japan. Stem fhrubby, fix feet high, with {mooth, oe 
Leaves — abundant about the top 
ate, pointed, with bri iftly ioe. 
tures, ribbed, fmooth oo bot h fides, unequal, an inch Jong 
Plower- araiek aie eight, collected into an umbel, 
from the midrib of the leaf, a line in len Fruit un- 
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confidering the other characters, or one aemipkt futpeet this 
plant to be partly allied to the /paragi. 
OT A 
Osyris, in Gardening, contains a plant of the fhrubby 
kind, of ‘whi ch the fpecies cultivated is, the poet’s cafia, 
al 
SE 
Method of Culture-—Thefe plants are increafed, by fow- 
ing the berries in autumn, as foon as ripe, in fome gravelly, 
ftony, or fimilar fituation, on the fide of a rilfing ground, 
either in the places where the plants are to remain, which is 
h 
S. 
They a variety in beds, borders, or other places, by 
the beauty of their fruit. 
OSZMIANA, Oscxmiana, or Ofmiana, in Geography, a 
town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of Wilna, the principal 
place of a diftri&, where provincial diets and "jultice-courts 
are keld ; me 28 miles S.E. of Witna. 
ALO, a ee of South America, in the 
province eae Quito, conneGed on the S. with that of San 
Miguel de Ibarra. The lands are laid out in plantations, 
and produce great quantities of fugar. The Indians in the 
villages, and alfo thofe who are independent, manufa€ture 
great variety of cottons, viz. carpets, pavilions for beds, 
guilts in damafk work, wholly of cotton, either white, 
blue, or variegated ene different coleurs; all which are 
highly valued in the provinces of Quito and Peru, where they 
are difpofed of to great advantage. The wheat and barley 
are fown here, like Indian corn, in little holes, a foot diftant from 
each other, into each of which are dropped five or fix grains ; 
and they generally reap above a hundred-fold. This jurif- 
see abounds with horfes and black cattle ; and from the 
The 
though they feem to be neglected by the inhabitants. 
principal place in this jurifdiction is Otabalo, which is fo 
large and populous, that it is faid to contain 18,000 or 
20,000 perfens, ~ among thefe a confiderable number of 
Spaniards ; 30 miles N.of Quito. N. lat. 0° 15’. W. long. 
77_ 56). 
OTACOUSTIC, formed from gs wl-, ear, and anew, F 
hear, a term applied to y ydeseals which aid or improve the 
fenfe of hearing. Fi 
TAHA, in inne one of the Society bare in. 
the South Pacife on fituated two miles N. of Uii 
there is no paflage for fhipping between then, Oraha affords 
two very good harbours, one on the eaft fide, called “ Oha- 
and are in many places elot 
This ifland was di ay by the king a Bolabola. 
16° 33!. 151° 20’. 
OTA AHEITE, “called by oo Wallis King George the 
Third’s [fland, an ifland in the South Pacific ecean, about 
30 leagues in circumference, aioe to have been firft feen 
by da in the year 1606, and called by him “ Sagitta- 
apt. Wallis was the firft Englifhman who difcovered 
ibed it. For his 
yages, voli. In 1768 
onf. Bougainville, and again by Capt. 
1774. From his ac- 
count 
S. lat. 
it was vifited by 
ook, in the years 1769, 1773, and 1 
