. Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people. Oraohe patula. cultivated in England, and is still cultivated insome parts of Europe as a substitute for is a native of Tartary, aii annual, with a stemabout three feet high, and cordate-triangularleaves, which are thick and glaucous, and have a ORACLE-ORAN. slightly aoid flavour. Atriplex hastota or OracheahoniKis in salt marshes or brackish river-hanks onthe Atlantic coast, and salt marshes from Vir<;inia toMaine.—The leaves of the ,Sea O. (.1. liltoralis),a native of the British coasts, are used in
. Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people. Oraohe patula. cultivated in England, and is still cultivated insome parts of Europe as a substitute for is a native of Tartary, aii annual, with a stemabout three feet high, and cordate-triangularleaves, which are thick and glaucous, and have a ORACLE-ORAN. slightly aoid flavour. Atriplex hastota or OracheahoniKis in salt marshes or brackish river-hanks onthe Atlantic coast, and salt marshes from Vir<;inia toMaine.—The leaves of the ,Sea O. (.1. liltoralis),a native of the British coasts, are used in the samemanner, and those of the common garden-weeds,A. patula and A. anffustifolia, are excellent sub-stitutes for spinach.—It is mentioned in Remy andBreuchleys Jovrney to Great Salt Lake City] thatan orache, with pale pink leaves and a salt taste, iscultivated by the Indians on the Ilumlwldt Riverfor its seed, which resembles that of Quinoa(q. v.), and is used like it for making porridge andbread. ORACLE, the response delivered by a deity orsupernatural being to a wo
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