Isles – Ixtle
Isles
LORD OF THE, a title borne by a race of Scotch chiefs.
Isonandra
in botany, a genus of Sapotaceæ. Isonandria obovata, an evergreen tree, growing in Tenasserim, yields a kind of gutta-percha, and I. gutta, the gutta-percha itself.
Isothermal Lines
lines on a globe or map passing over places in which the mean general temperature is the same. Humboldt first generalized the observations and collected the facts bearing on isothermal lines.
Isthmian Games
athletic contests of ancient Greece, celebrated in April and May of the first and third years of each Olympiad. The contests included all varieties of athletic sports, as wrestling, running, boxing, etc., and competitions in music and poetry. The victors were crowned with garlands of pine leaves, these being the only prize.
Itacolumite
a schistose quartzite, containing scales of mica, talc, and chlorite, which are often so arranged as to give a certain flexibility to the rock (flexible sandstone). In Brazil and the S. E. States of North America itacolumite is the matrix in which diamonds are found.
Ithaca
a city and county-seat of trades largely in oil, wine, raisins, and currants. Pop. of Island, 12,000.
Ixia
in botany, a genus of Iridaceæ.
It consists of beautiful Cape bulbs, with spikes spikes of showy flowers. I. viridiflora has la large sea-green flowers, with black markings. It is from the Cape of Good Hope.
IXTACCIHUATL (ēts-täk'sē-wat-el), a high mountain in Mexico, estimated height 16,077 feet, though some authorities pronounce it higher than Popocatepetl.
Ixtle
a Mexican fiber, probably the production of a species of the pineapple family.