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Breynia— continued. 
or depressed. Leaves alternate, petiolate, often distichous 
and drying blackish. Only one species is known to culti- 
vation. For culture, see Phyllanthus. 
B. turbinata (turbinate). . green, those of both sexes 
borne on the same raceme. July, 7. coriaceous, lin. long, ° 
Zin, to lin. broad, rhomboid-ovate, acute, glaucous and minutely 
foveolate-dotted beneath. A. 2ft. China. Syn. Phyllanthus 
turbinatus (B. M. 1862; L. B. C. 731). 
BRICKELLIA (commemorative name). Including 
Bulbostyles in part. ORD. Composite. A genus embracing 
about forty species of stove or greenhouse herbs or 
under-shrubs, all American. Flower-heads white or* 
pink, homogamous, paniculate. Leaves opposite or alter- 
nate, toothed or entire, rarely cut. One or two of the 
species have been introduced, but the following is the 
only one calling for mention. For culture, see Eupa- 
torium. 
B. grandiflora (large-flowered), (/l.-heads reddish, disposed in 
large, terminal corymbs. J. rugose, cordate, acute, serrated. 
Stem paniculate at summit. North America, 1883. An orna- 
mental, hardy perennial. SYN. Hupatorium grandijlorum (R. A. 
1882, p. 384). 
BRIDGESIA. A synonym of Ercilla (which see). 
BRIGNOLIA. A synonym of Isertia (which see). 
BRILLANTAISIA. Syns. Belantheria, Leuco- 
rhaphis. About seven or eight species, natives of 
tropical Asia and Madagascar, are included in this genus. 
BRINDLED BEAUTY MOTH (Biston hirtarius). 
Frequently this Moth causes the gardener and the 
forester no little anxiety on account of its ravages upon 
Plums, Pears, Oaks, Elms, Limes, &c. Even in London its 
presence is very 
familiar. The 
Moth is on the 
wing during April 
and May, and 
though not con- 
spicuous as to 
markings, it mea- 
sures about 2in. 
in wing-expanse. 
Fic. 180. Brinptep Beauty Morn, The  fore-wings 
are greyish- 
brown, sprinkled with a darker colour, and like the lighter 
hind-wings irregularly banded with black, though these 
latter markings are not as distinct in the hind-wings as 
in the fore-wings (see Fig. 180). The male has beautifully 
fringed antenne, 
as shown in the 
illustration; 
whereas in the 
female these or- 
gans are filiform. 
The eggs are de- 
posited in rings upon the food- 
plant selected, and therefore are 
fairly conspicuous. They should 
always be destroyed. 
From June to July the cater- 
pillars (see Fig. 181) may be found ; 
they are voracious feeders, and 
the foliage suffers considerably. 
They are of a variable brown 
colour, with bright yellow dots 
upon each segment. When full- 
fed, the pupal state is assumed 
fh beneath the soil, the perfect 
Fic. 181, Carerrinran M™Sect emerging in the spring of 
oF Brinptep Beauty the following year. 
MOTH. Besides the preventive measures 
already suggested in connection 
with the destruction of the eggs, the caterpillars may be 
destroyed by poisoning their food-plant with Paris Green 
(loz. to 20gall. of water). 
Vol. Y. 
BRINDONIA. A synonym of Garcinia (which 
see). 
BRINING. A method employed to hasten ‘the 
germination of those seeds having hard shells. It consists 
in steeping them in warm water for twenty-four hours 
before sowing, and is especially advisable with such seeds 
as those of Cannas and Palms. 
BRISTLE FERN. See Trichomanes. 
BRIZA. The ten species of this genus inhabit Europe, 
North Africa, temperate Asia, and South America. Leaves 
flat or narrowly convolute, sometimes bristly. To the 
species described on pp. 211-2, Vol. I., the following should 
be added: 
B. rotundata (round). #1. disposed in narrow panicles; spike- 
lets erect. J. erect, narrow. Mexico, Brazil, and Chili, 1887. 
An ornamental, annual Grass. (R. G. 1887, p. 638.) 
BROAD BEAN RUST (Uromyces fabzx). The 
name above adopted would suggest that the Broad 
Bean alone was attacked by this Rust, but this is not 
the case. Peas and several wild plants are similarly 
affected. Usually the disease is not noted until the 
brown spots on the foliage (uredospore stage) have made 
their appearance. Prior to this, however, there has been 
a Cluster-cup (ecidium) stage. Plants which have 
reached the uredospore (summer spore) stage quickly 
spread the disease, unless spraying with a fungicide (liver 
of sulphur) is adopted. Finally, teleutospores are formed, 
and these carry the fungus over the winter to repeat the 
mischief in the following spring. All ‘old haulfas should 
be burned and not buried, as is frequently case in cottage 
and allotment gardens. 
BROAD-BORDERED YELLOW UNDER- 
WING. See Tryphena. 
BROCCHIA (of Mauri), <A synonym of Sim- 
_mondsia (which see). ~ 
BROCCHINIA (named after Giovanni Battista 
Brocchi, an Italian naturalist), Orp. Bromeliacer. A 
small and very distinct genus (three species) of stove 
plants with a woody, Yucca-like trunk, natives of Brazil 
and Guiana. Flowers whitish, small, in a loose, decom- 
pound panicle; perianth inserted above the middle of the 
ovary; sepals obovate-oblong, as long as the orbicular, 
short-clawed petals; stamens a little shorter than the 
sepals and petals; ovary three-celled. Leaves densely 
rosulate, with a large, entire, lorate blade. Only one 
species’ has yet been introduced. It requires culture 
similar to Billbergia (which see). 
B. Andreana (André’s). A synonym of B. cordylinoides. 
B. cordylinoides (Cordyline-like). jl. yellowish-white, less 
than fin. long; panicle 6ft. to 8ft. long; peduncle shorter than 
the leaves. Autumn, /. 3ft. to 4ft. long, 6in. to 7in. broad, 
deltoid at apex. Trunk 12ft. to 15ft. high, 6in. to 8in. in 
diameter. British Guiana, 1882. Syns. B. Andreana and 
R. demerarensis (of gardens), Cordyline mhacrantha (G. C. 
1880, ii. 243, f. 47). 
B. demerarensis (Demerara). A synonym of B. cordylinoides. 
BROCCOLI. Two new varieties that deserve mention 
are Walcheren and Early Purple Sprouting. These, with 
the other early varieties named—Veitch’s Self-protecting 
Autumn Purple Cape and Snow’s Winter White—vwill 
afford a supply until Christmas, or later. Then should 
follow, in the order named, Improved Sprouting, Osborne’s 
Winter White, Early White, Perfection, Leamington, 
April Queen, Latest of All, Model, and Late Queen. 
These would continue the supply until June, when Cauli- 
flowers are ready. 
BRODIZA. Bentham and Hooker include here 
Calliprora, Hesperoscordon, and Triteleia, the genus as 
thus constituted comprising about thirty species, all extra- 
tropical American. ‘To ‘those described on p. 213, Vol. I.. 
the following should be added. See also Calliprora and 
Triteleia. 
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