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BULLACH. See Prunus insititia, 
BULLACE, or MUSCADINE. See Vitis vul- 
pina. 
BULLATE. Blistered or puckered. 
BULRUSH, or CLUB-RUSH. See Typha. 
BUNCHOSIA (from bunchos, the Arabic name for 
Coffee ; in allusion to the similarity between the seeds of 
this genus and those of Coffee). ORD. Malpighiacee. 
Ornamental greenhouse evergreen shrubs, nearly allied to 
- Malpighia, but having the racemes of flowers axillary. 
Fruit fleshy, indehiscent, externally smooth, and containing 
two or three seeds. They thrive best in a compost of loam, 
peat, leaf soil, and sand, in about equal proportions. 
Bunchosia—continued. 
B. odorata (fragrant).* jl. yellow, sweet-scented; racemes op- 
osite. May. J. ovate, emarginate, downy on both surfaces. 
7ft. Carthagena, 1806. 
BUPHTHALMUM (from bous, an ox, and ophthal- 
mos, the eye; the disk of the flower being ox-eye-like). 
Oxeye. ORD. Composite. Very showy and ornamental hardy 
perennial plants, thriving freely in common garden soil. 
They are propagated by divisions, made in autumn or 
spring. 
B. grandiflorum (large-flowered).* fl.-heads yellow, large; in- 
volucre naked. June to October. J. alternate-lanceolate, some- 
what toothleted, smooth. A. lift. Austria, 1722. Hardy 
herbaceous perennial. 
B. salicifolium (Willow-leaved).* /1.-heads yellow, solitary, rather 
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Fic. 302. BURBIDGEA NITIDA. 
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n Cuttings of ripened shoots will root in sand under a bell 
glass, in moist bottom heat, taking several weeks to do so. 
drainage is essential, both in striking cuttings and in 
the cultivation of the plants. 
B. argentea (silvery).* ellow ; racemes opposite, simple, 
pubescent. Jy fs Ree silvery beneath. Wtnnches 
puberulous. A. 1 Caraccas, 1810. 
B. (gland-bearing). fl. yellow; racemes simple, 
ax . _March to May. l. TEA ap bere on short petioles, 
wavy, Bae sare on surfaces, furnished with four glands 
beneath at the base. A. 10ft. Caraccas, 1806. 
B. nitida =. A. yellow; racemes elongated, almost the 
~ . length of the leaves. July. fr. la red; it is much eaten b; 
turkeys and large fowl. 1. 4 , acuminated, 
glandless. A. 4ft. Jamaica, 1800. vee 
large, terminal; involucre naked, June. l alternate, oblong- 
lanceolate, sub-serrated, three-nerved, villous. A. l4ft. Austria, 
1759. Hardy herbaceous perennial. re 
. 8 osissimum (showiest),* fl- low. July. h. 2ft. 
Eao, 1826. Taras borban Salman ore Teiekia 
speciosissima. tne 
BUPLEURUM (derivation not satisfactorily explained). 
Hare’s-Ear. ORD. Umbellifere. A somewhat extensive 
genus of quite glabrous shrubs or herbaceous plants. 
Flowers yellowish; umbels compound. Leaves mostly 
quite entire. But few of this genus are worth growing, 
and all are of the easiest culture in common garden soil. 
Seeds of the annuals may be sown out of doors in March 
or April; divisions of the herbaceous perennials made in 
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