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Olive, common* Olea europiza 
Olive, sweet-scented Olea fragryns 
Olive, spurge Daphne\ oleoides 
Olive, wild, of Barbadoes " Bontia daphioides 
One-berry; true love; or herb Paris Paris quadrifolia 
Onion 
Onion, many-bulbedf 
Onion, umbel-bearing 
Onion, sea ; or squill 
Onion, Welch 
Opuks ; or marsh elder 
Orange tree, Seville 
Orange,;}: China (a variety) 
Orange, mock , 
Orchilla; or archil 
Origany, pot; or winter sweet 
marjoram 
Origany of Crete; or Cretan ma- 
rum 
Ornotta, see Anotta 
Orpine ; or live long 
Orpine, base 
Orpine, lesser 
Orpine, true, of Imperatus 
Orach, garden 
Allium cepa 
Allium multibulbosum 
Allium magieum 
S cilia maritima ' 
Allium jistulosum 
Viburnum opuliis 
Citrus aurantium 
Citrus aurantium (sinensis) 
Philadelphia coronarius 
Lichen roccella 
> Origanum heracleoticum 
• Origanum creticum 
Bixa orellana , 
Sedum telephium 
Andrachne telephioides 
Crassula 
Telephium imperati 
A triplex hortensis 
Cherry bh’te ariDg 5 “ } BKtUm ca P itatum 
* Olive oil is asserted to possess many excellent qualities; if the body is fre¬ 
quently smeared over with it, and the garment next the skin soaked in it, it will 
prevent the infection of the plague ; it will prevent the bite of the scorpion, and 
other venomous reptiles ; and it will keep of musquitoes.—In Tunis, if a person is 
bit by a scorpion, or other venomous reptile, the part is immediately scarified, and 
olive oil rubbed in as soon as possible, which arrests the progress of the venom, 
Jackson’s Commerce of the Mediterranean , printed iri 1805. 
Quere . If it would affect the bite of a mad dog. 
+ The many-hilled onions are to be set whole at Spring, at about a foot distant 5 
which do not run up to seed, but at the time of taking up, each onion will form a 
cluster of bulbs under ground from 2 or 3 to 6 or 7 5 —and will sometimes bear 
small onions at the top of the stalk, if they have not clustered below. 
+ A small orange, called at the Cape of Good Hope naretje , and is distinguished, 
like the citron 9 by a protuberance at the upper end, is said to be superiot in taste, 
to every sort of oranges. 
