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Burning or Scorching of Vines—continued. 
inrush of cold air. Another factor is defective root-action. 
In such a case the most careful ventilation will fail to stop 
Scorching, as the®foliage being thin, and lacking in 
substance, a powerful sun-heat almost invariably causes it 
to Burn, and the berries to scald. Again, the use of strong 
manures, highly charged with ammonia, will cause 
Scorching, especially if the vinery is closed entirely for a 
few days. To avoid any damage it is advisable to leave a 
little top ventilation day and night for a week or so, to 
enable the rank fumes to escape. 
BURNT WOOD. See Scolopendrium vulgare. 
BUROMA GUAZUMA. A synonym of Guazuma 
ulmifolia (which see). 
BURRIELIA (in part). 
(which see). 
BURSARIA. Two species, both natives of extra- 
tropical Australia, are included in this genus. Flowers 
whitish, rather small, in pyramidal panicles ; sepals distinct ; 
petals narrow, spreading nearly to the base; filaments 
subulate. Leaves small, often fascicled, entire. 
BURSERA. Including Icica and Protiwm. This 
genus embraces about forty species, all tropical and mostly 
American. 
BUSBECKIA. A synonym of Salpichroa (which 
see). 
BUSH. A low and dense shrub. 
BUSH HONEYSUCKLE. See Diervilla. 
BUTOMOPSIS (from Butomus, an allied genus, and 
opsis, resemblance). Syn. Tenagocharis. Orv. Alismacezx. 
A’monotypic genus. The species, B. lanceolata, is a stove, 
annual, bog-loving herb, with milky juice, native of tropical 
Asia, Africa, and Australia. It bears an umbel of three to 
twenty white flowers, in bracteate whorls, and has elliptic, 
acute leaves. Probably it is no longer in cultivation. 
‘BUTONICA SAMOENSIS. \A synonym of 
Barringtonia samoensis (which see). 
BUTTERFLY CYCLAMENS. These are a 
curious race of Cyclamens, for whose introduction M. de 
Langhe-Vervaene, of Brussels, is responsible. The 
plants are characterised by broad, wavy, reflexed petals, 
fringed at the margin. The usualecolours are white, 
eream, violet, and lilac. 
BUTTERFLY FLOWER. See Schizanthus. 
BUTTER-ROOT. See Pinguicula vulgaris. 
BUTTER-TREE, INDIAN. Sce Bassia buty- 
racea. 
BUTTNERIA. See Buettneria. 
BUTTONS. See Tanacetum vulgare. 
BUTTON WEED. See Spermacoce. 
BUXEZ. A tribe of Euphorbiacee (which see), 
BUXUS. This genus comprises about nineteen species, 
mostly hardy; six are found in North temperate regions, 
one in Madagascar, another in tropical Africa, and the rest 
in the West Indies. To those described on p. 226, Vol. I., 
the following should be added : 
B. chinensis (Chinese). A synonym of Simmondsia cali- 
TJornica. 
Synonymous with Beria 
B. Fortunei (Fortune's). /. long, narrow, sub-cuneiform. 
Branches numerous, erect. China, 1870. A compact-growing, 
very hardy, evergreen shrub, SYN. "B. longifolia (of gardens). 
B. Harlandi (Dr. Harland’s). 7. alinost sessile, narrow-obovate, 
emarginate at apex, ten to fifteen lines long. Branchlets 
pies Hong! Kong. 
Vol. V. 
Buxus—continued. 
B. japonica (Japanese). 7. tin. long, obovate, emarginate at 
apex, acute at base. Japan. 
B. j. microphylla (small-leaved). 7. spathulate-lanceolate, 
thrice (or more) as long as broad. Japan. 
B. longifolia (long-leaved). A garden synonym of B. Fortunei. 
B. microphylla (small-leaved). A variety of B. japonica. 
B. sempervirens. The following varieties may be added: 
Handsworthi, with broad, deep-coloured leaves; rosmarinifolia, 
with narrow leaves, the bush somewhat resembling a dwarf 
Rosemary; and thymifolia, with very small leaves and 
branches. 
B. Wallichiana (Wallich’s). 7. ljin. to 24in. long, tin. to 4in. 
broad, linear-lanceolate, shortly narrowed at base, truncate or 
emarginate at apex, slightly mucronulate. India, 
BYBLIS (a classical name ; Byblis was the daughter 
of Miletus). Orv. Droseracez. ~A genus embracing three 
or four species ‘of greenhouse herbs, all Australian. 
Flowers blue, small or large, axillaty and long-pedunculate 
or borne on a scape; calyx five-parted; petals five; 
stamens five, inserted or free. Leaves clustered, alternate, 
narrow-linear, terete or filiform; vernation circinate. 
B. Viniflora has been introduced, but is probably not now 
in cultivation. 
BYRSONIMA. About ninety species of stove trees 
or shrubs (often climbing), natives of tropical America, 
are included in this genus. Calyx five-parted; petals 
having a reflexed claw and a concave limb; stamens ten, 
all perfect. Leaves entire, without glands, the stipules 
often connate in an axillary one, rarely bifid or free. 
BYTTNERIA. See Buettneria. 
CABALLERIA.: 
see). 
. CABBAGE. For sowing in July or August the 
following sorts are the best, being reliable, early, and 
not prone to run to seed in spring: Veitch’s Harliest, 
Best of All, Ellam’s Dwarf Early Spring,’ Mein’s 
No. 1, and Nonpareil Improved. For summer use, any 
or all of the above are excellent, together with Enfield 
Market, Early York (referred to in Vol. I.), and Large 
York. An excellent variety. for antumn and early 
winter use is Chou de Burghley, being of fine flavour 
and good constitution. For latest supplies Christmas 
Drumhead will be found the best. In Pickling Cabbage, 
Red Dutch is still one of the best; Improved Blood should 
also be grown. The White Cabbages also pickle well, and 
if sliced Beetroot is mixed therewith a nice red colour i is 
obtained. 
CABBAGE CATERPILLARS. To the insects 
enumerated under this heading in Vol. I. should be added 
the Caterpillars of the Green-veined White Butterfly (Pieris 
napi, Fig. 185), another common species found upon 
various Crucifere, including Cabbages and Watercress. 
Doubtless, however, it is mistaken by gardeners for the 
Small White, and is therefore less often recorded as a pest 
than either P. brassice or P. rapx. P. napi differs chiefly 
from P. rave in having green markings along the nervures. 
This feature, however, varies considerably. The Butterfly, 
like its relatives already noted, is double-brooded, appearing 
in April and in July. The larva is green, dotted with 
black. There is a lateral yellow spot in each segment; the 
spiracles are black. The pupa is light green, with yellow 
points, and marked with brown. 
Though all three species named feed upon Cabbages, as 
ordinarily understood, yet they also lay under contribution 
Broccoli, Cauliflowers, Kales, Turnips, Rape, and Mustard. 
Nor is it only the leaves of these plants that are destroyed : 
the seeds and seed-pods of Mustard are frequently attacked. 
All the species are most plentiful, and therefore correspond- 
ingly destructive, in dry weather. In certain seasons, too, 
the numbers of. P. brassicz are reinforced by swarms from 
the Continent. 
A synonym of Myrsine (which 
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