OXY 
partial ftalks. Segments of ‘the calyx ovate. Corolla pur- 
ple, thrice as long, plaited. Va 
anfus. Spreading Umbrella-wor. Vahl. n. 5. 
(Chiyshyrenin expanfa; Fl. Peruv. v. 1. 45. t. 75: 
bl.) — ovate, {mooth. Tiswer ke eeminal, 
eee | Spatiees the len gth is ae corolla. Stem ere&. 
Found on very dry hills in Lim tem fix feet high, — 
Leaves diftant, obfcurely cea rather 
Flower, Salks aL 
from fix to eleven 
which are but flightly 
oe peels fome- 
6. O. ae gates. 
n. 6. (Calyxhymenta aggregata § : Orteg. ecad. 81. 
t. x1. Mirabilis aggregata; Cavan. Ic. bs 22. 
t. 437.)—Leaves lanceolate Fide ane, fal 
tary. Calyx with about three flowers.—Native of 
Spain. It flowered in 1758 at Madrid. —Stem a foot ae or 
when i 
The calyx is enlarged w 
Seeds {eldom more ‘than two ope large, villous, at firlt 
enveloped by the calyx, which at sength becomes expanded. 
OXYACANTHA, See BER 
OXYBLATTA, among the Arce, is ufed to denote 
a bright and glofly kind of al ane olou 
OXY » in Ancient G cara, a people 
who occupied the territory now called Hajycan 
kan, a circar or divifion o 
OXYCEDRUS, in Baas. See JUNIPERUS. 
OXYCOCCUS, ci r and HOKKOS, 2 berry ; ; 
the Cranberry. ACCINI from which fome 
pale disjomed this tae becaufe the corolla is very deeply 
ed, even to the very it o that Roth, who has 
called this fuppofed new genus Schollera, defcribes it as 
alfo takes ie wAditional charaGters the 
ndt roximation of their 
is furely of little avail, and the former 
occurs in Vaccinium flamineum, whofe corolla, neverthelefs, is 
perfedtly saa ela dig ; as well as probably in many other 
s being vatioull conitruéted in that 
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aed Oxycoceus muft remain with it, as an Geese ot me: 
See Roth Germ. v.1. r Oo. Vv 
WOXYCRATE, re oLUxpOLTOVy formed > ofus, 
Jjharp, four, and eyeiiee i mies it, Phar macy, &C. a mIx- 
and vine 
The ufual nn is one {poonful of vinegar to five or 
fix of w = 
Oxycrate is proper to affuage, cool, and refrefh. They 
make pie: of oxycrate, cly fters of oxycrate, &c. 
Ox Y 
OXYCROCEUM, formed from ofvs, fbarp, four, and 
ae Safrom, a preparation ufed in plafters for fra“ures, 
and callu fes 5 compofed chiefly of faffron, with 
n Chemifiry, a term that ma 
properly applied to any fees chemically combined with 
oxygen ; but it is reftri€ted to thofe that have not acquired 
acid properties by the combination. ‘This term is chiefl 
fed to exprefs thofe inedibestons of metallic bodies for- 
merly ead “calces.””? See CALCINATIO 
or the oxyds of antimony, arfenic, iron, ead, mercury, 
&c. fee the feveral articles. 
OXYDRACA, in Ancient Geography, a people of pore 
who inhabited the diftri€& now called Outch, near the 
fluence of — rape a eae with the Indu 
A, eee » formed from ofusy ies jour, 
and ora, UL four m 
The Turks ufe fhise as a a popular drink, and call it égur. 
Vigenere fays, they drink four milk diluted with water 5 
aie s found to cool and nourifh better than the milk 
alon 
OXYGARUM, a word ufed by the ancients to exprefs 
ar : a a ae ie oa 
and vegetable matter. 
animals, and is frequently abforbed by plants, contributing 
to the fama performance of fome of their moft intricate 
funétio 
renee gas was difcovered by Dr. Prieftley in the month 
of Augutt 1 He obtained it by heating ied precipitate 
in a {mall glafs retort conneted w o-pnéumatic 
apparatus. This compound of quic oki id oxygen is 
decompofed at a low red heat, the quickfilver _ over, 
en affumes the gafeous form. In c 
Scheele, in Sweden, was engage 
i eae a nature of ie ores of manganefe, and in the 
ourfe of the e procured lie gas without 
a previous None of eat ley’s dife 
Lavoifier, in his “E 
v 
was in Paris in the year 1774, I mentioned it a 
of Mr. Lavoifier, when moit of the philofophical people in 
the city were prefent, faying, that it was a kind of air in 
which a candle burne ees better than in common air, but 
I had not then given it any name. At this all the company, 
and Mr. and Madame Lavoilier, as muc ch as any, expreffed 
