122 THE DICTIONARY 
OF GARDENING, 
BARBADOS CEDAR. 
diana. 
BARBAREA. Yellow Cress. About a score species 
have been referred to this genus by various authors, but 
according to Bentham and Hooker not more than six are 
sufficiently distinct to rank as such; they are broadly dis- 
tributed over temperate regions, the genus being repre- 
sented in the British Flora by B. vulgaris (St. Barbara’s 
Heath) and several varieties, of which the plant described 
as B. precow is one. See Cress (American). 
BARBE DE CAPUCIN. See Chicory. 
BARBERRY RUST. This well-known deep yellow 
Rust, found upon the common Barberry (B. vulgaris), the 
much-grown Mahonia (Berberis) Aquwifolia, and allies in 
spring, is but the Cluster-cup stage of the exceedingly 
destructive blackish Rust of Wheat and other cereals, and 
known as Pucecinia graminis, described and illus- 
trated in Vol. III. 
BARBULA. A synonym of Caryopteris (which see). 
BARIDIUS TRINOTATUS. See Potato Insect 
* Pests. 
BARE. This is largely employed as a plunging 
material for Pine-plants in pots. The tan is placed over 
a hot-air chamber and made into a bed, in which the 
pots are plunged up to their rims, the heat in the bed 
being regulated by the hot-water pipes in the chamber 
underneath. All plants in pots requiring bottom-heat 
may be grown in the same manner. 
BARK-BEETLES. Sce Scolytide. 
BARKERIA. This genus is now included, by the 
authors of the “Genera Plantarum,” under Hpidendrum. 
To the species described on p. 158, Vol. I., the following 
should be added: 
B. Barkeriola (Barkeriola). 
Barkeriola. 
B. cyclotella (circular). jl. very showy, disposed in a terminal 
raceme ; sepals and petals deep magenta; lip white, margined 
magenta, broad, emarginate. February and March. J. distichous, 
ligulate-oblong, acute. Stems as thick as a quill. Mexico. 
W. O. A. iv. 148.) oe 
B. elegans nobilior (nobler). A fine, jpe towered variety, 
having a blackish-purple spot on the lip. 1886. 
See Juniperus bermu- 
A synonym of Epidendrum 
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Fic. 140. FLOWER OF BARKERIA LINDLEYANA. 
B. Lindleyana. 
the whole genus. See Fig. 140. 
B. spectabilis. A showy species, which is at its best about 
midsummer. See Fig. 141. 
This species is one of the most beautiful in 
Barkeria— continued. 
Fic. 141. 
FLOWER OF BARKERIA SPECTABILIS. 
B. Vanneriana (Vanner’s). /. fine rosy-purple, with a small, 
whitish disk on the lip, equal in shape to those of B. Lindleyana ; 
lip rounded, acute, much like that of B. Skinneri. 1885. .A fine 
plant, intermediate in character between the two species named. 
BARKHOUSIA RUBRA. A synonym of Crepis 
rubra (which see). 
BARE LICE. A popular name for Scale Insects. 
BAREK-WOUNDS. These are of far greater con- 
sequence than is usually attached to them by the gardener, 
especially in the case of dicotyledonous trees. Wounds 
may restlt from a number of causes, chief amongst 
which are careless pruning, hard knocks at felling time, 
cuts from scythes and mowing-machines, and barking by 
cattle, deer, and small mammals like mice. Trees so 
injured are liable to various forms of “rot, some of 
the most destructive being those for which fungi like 
Armillaria mellea (Agaricus melleus) are responsible. 
Destructive insects like Sirex gigas (Horn-tailed Sawfly) and 
certain Ants also find a ready access by means of wounds. 
BARLERIA. This genus embraces about sixty 
species of herbs and shrubs, mostly natives of Asia and 
tropical and South Africa, the few American ones being 
principally Mexican or Columbian. Corolla tube long, 
the limb of five rounded or ovate lobes. Leaves opposite, 
entire, the axils often armed with spines. To those 
described on p. 158, Vol. I., the following should be added. 
See also Barleriola. 
B. cristata (crested). fl. purplish-blue or white; corolla lin. 
long, the lobes ovate, sin. long; spikes ovate, often compound, 
dense. July. @. oblong or elliptic, acute, lin. to 4in. long 
(according to locality, &c.). Branches and leaves yellow-hairy. 
Sub-tropical. India, 1796. Plant erect or diffuse. (B. M. 1615.) 
B. gentianoides (Gentian-like). A synonym of B. flava. 
B. involucrata (involucred). #. blue; sepals lin. long, 
elongated-elliptic ; corolla 2in. long, the lobes obovate-elliptic ; 
racemes few-flowered, axillary ; bracteoles lanceolate or linear. 
7. elliptic, 44in. long, lin. broad, narrow at both ends. India. 
Plant yellow-strigose. 
B. i. elata (tall). 7. dark blue, 24in. across. 
18 A compact, showy variéty. 
B. repens (creeping). fl. axillary, solitary, sessile or shortly 
pedicellate; corolla pale, rather dull rosy-red, 2in. long, the 
tube funnel-shaped, the limb l4in. in diameter, of five oblong 
lobes. July. /. opposite, appearing as if fascicled, lin. to 2hin. 
long, elliptic-ovate or obovate; petioleg din. to 4in. long. Stems 
h. 6ft. Singapore, 
lit. to 2ft. long, prostrate. Eastern trepical Africa, 1875. 
(B. M. 6954.) 
B. solanifolia (Solanum-leaved) A synonym of Barleriola 
solanifolia, 
