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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
BLOOD is a manure usually rich in ammonia. It is 
beneficial in the form of a powder as a top-dressing for 
plants requiring a stimulant to give size and colour to the 
flowers. In a crude state it cannot be recommended for 
general use. Much injury has been done to Vines and 
fruit trees by heavy applications of fresh blood. See 
Animal Manures. 
BLOODBERRY. See Rivina humilis. 
BLOODWORT. Sce Sanguinaria canadensis. 
Me is 
aes 
Fic. 178. BLeTIA HYACINTHINA, 
BLOOMERIA (named in honour of Mr. H. G. 
Bloomer, Botanical Curator of the Californian Academy 
of Sciences). Orp. Liliacer. A small genus (two 
species) of fine, half-hardy, bulbous plants, natives of 
California. They differ from Brevoortia, Stropholirion, and 
allied genera, in having the perianth segments free to 
the base, as in Allium (which see for culture). 
B. aurea (golden). fl. golden-yellow, disposed in a spreading, * 
many-Howered umbel; perianth rotate, lin. in diameter, the 
segments linear-oblong ;. scape slender, about lft. long. July. 
7. solitary, lft. long, very narrow-linear. Bulb as large as a 
Hazel-nut. California, 1869. (G. C. 1896, xx., p. 687, f. 119.) 
Syn. Nothoscordum aureum (B. M. 5896). 
B. Clevelandi (Cleveland’s). This resembles B. aurea, but the 
flowers are smaller, the stamens are shorter in proportion to the 
perianth, and the scape is slenderer. 1896. (G. C. 1896, xx., 
p. 687, f. 120.) : 
BLUEBELL, NEW ZEALAND. Sce Wahlen- 
bergia saxicola. 
BLUEBERRY. See Vaccinium Myrtillus. 
BLUE BONNETS. Sce Scabiosa succisa. 
BLUE BUTTONS. See Scabiosa succisa. 
2 neue COWSLIP. See Pulmonaria angusti- 
olia. 
BLUE CURLS. See Trichostema. 
BLUE-EYED GRASS. Sce Sisyrinchium. 
BLUE JACK. See Quercus cinerea. 
BLUE PALMETTO. See Rhapidophyllum 
Hystrix. y 
BLUE VERVAIN. Sce Verbena hastata. 
BLUMENBACHIA. About a dozen species, all 
American, are included in this genus. To those described 
on pp. 196-7, Vol. I., the following should ‘be added: 
B. lateritia (brick-red). The correct name of Loasa lateritia 
(B. M. 3632; B. R. 1838, 22) 
B. multifida (much-cleft). fl. white, with a red and yellow 
centre, bibracteate; petals hispid. July. J. palmately lobed 
and bipinnatifid. Otherwise resembling B. insignis. “Buenos 
Ayres, 1826. (B. M. 3599.) 
BLUMENBACHIA (of Koeler). 
Sorghum (which see). 
BLUMIA. A synonym of Sarauja (which see). 
BLUSH ROSE. See Rosa indica. 
BOAT-LIP ORCHID. See Scaphyglottis. 
BOBARTIA. According to J. G. Baker, this genus 
comprises eight species, natives of Cape Colony. Flowers 
pale yellow, fugitive, more than one in a spathe; perianth- 
tube none or very short, the segments spreading ; stamens 
inverted at the base of the periatith; clusters fascicled, 
rarely single, usually overtopped by a single bract. 
Leaves rigid, terete or ensiform. 
BOCCONIA. This genus consists of about five 
species, natives of tropical America and China. To 
those described on p. 197, Vol. I., the following should 
be added: - 
B. microcarpa (small-fruited). . of a warm bronzy tint, 
disposed in a plume-like panicle, not unlike the Venetian 
Sumach_ in the early summer. /. much as in B. cordata. 
h. 9ft. Northern China, 1896. (R. H. 1898, p. 362, f. 125.) 
BEA. See Bea. wt 
BEBERA is a synonym of Dysodia (which see). 
BEHMERIA. Syns. Duretia, Splitgerbera. This 
genus embraces about forty-five species, broadly dispersed, 
mostly tropical. To that described on p. 197, Vol. I., the 
following variety should be added : 
B. nivea candicans (whitish). /. the same colour on both sides, 
or the young ones at first whitish beneath. Syn. B. tenacissima. 
B. tenacissima (very tenacious). A synonyn® of B. nivea 
candicans. : 
BENNINGHAUSENIA (named in honour of C. F. 
von Beenninghausen). Orp. Rutacez. A monotypic genus. 
The species (B. albiflora) will be found described on p. 337, 
Vol. III., under its old name, Ruta albiflora. 
BOG MOSS. See Sphagnum. 
BOG RHUBARB. Sce Petasites vulgaris. 
BOG VIOLET. See Pinguicula vulgaris. 
BOILERS. See Heating. 
BOLBITIS. Included under Acrostichum (which 
see). 
BOLDEA. A synonym of Peumus (which see). 
BOLDOA (named after Baltasar Manuel Boldo, a 
Spanish botanist, who collected in Cuba at the end of the 
eighteenth century). Syn. Salpianthus. Orv. Nyctaginee. 
A small genus (two species) of stove, tuberous herbs, natives 
of Mexico, one being also found in Cuba. Flowers small, in 
eymose heads or racemes. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 
deltoid- or trapezoid-ovate, obtuse, entire. B. lanceolata 
has been introduced, but is not of much horticultural value. 
BOLE. The body of a tree. 
BOLIVARIA. A synonym of Menodora (which see). 
BOLLEA PULVINARIS. This does not appear to 
differ from Zygopetalum cceleste (which see). 
BOLTONIA. There are about a dozen species of — 
this genus, natives of North America and North and sub- 
tropical Asia.. Flower-heads heterogamous, paniculate or 
solitary ; involucre hemispherical, the bracts in few series; 
A synonym of 
