220 THE FIG: ITS HISTORY, CULTURE, AND CURING. 
Bourdou—GouRAuD NOIRE, 
Bourgassotte—BARNISSOTTE, WHITE. 
Bourgeassotte—BARNISSOTTE, WHITE. 
Bourjassotte Blanche—BARNISSOTTE, WHITE, 
Bourjassotte Grise.—Size medium; roundish, flattened, almost oblate; skin dull 
brown or tawny, with patches of purple. Pulp deep red; very rich and lus- 
cious. The most constantly good fig grown in English hothouses, and a 
good cropper, according to Barron, who gives this fig as a different one from 
Barnissotte Grise. 
Bourjassote Noire—BARNISSOTTE, BLACK. 
Bourraillese—GouRauD NOIRe. 
Boutana.—Size medium or above medium; pyriform to oblate, with an oblique 
axis. Stalk short, one-eighth inch long: ribs extending to apex: skin dull or 
tawny green, with no bluom, but downy. 
Pulp deep rose, but not dark. (Barron 
and Hogg.) 
Boutilete.—For drying. At Brignoles. 
Bouton du Guétre—Lipari. 
Bovin—Bovuin. 
Brayasque—BRIASCA. 
Brayasque—BRIAsca Doussa. 
Brebas.—Brebas isa Spanish name for any first 
crop of figs and is applied to figs of any size 
and color. It corresponds to ‘fiore,” 
‘*fioues fleures,” etc., and does not refer to 
any certain variety, meaning early. The 
variety imported by Professor Pohndorff 
from Spain to California, under the name 
of ‘‘ Breba,” isthe San Pedro White, which, 
as is well known, matures only the first 
crop. From Prof. E. W. Hilgard the author 
has learned that another fig is also sold in 
Malaga as Brebas, but the fig is very much 
larger, oblong, and exceedingly handsome. 
and yellow. In Mexico the popular idea is 
generally that the ‘‘Breba” is a special 
kind of fig. 
Breba Negra—San PEDRO, BLACK. 
Breba (erroneously)—SAN PEDRO, WHITE. 
Brianchetta—ALsBo. 
Briancoletta (Porta)—ALBO. 
Briasca (Nice)—Brayasque (Provence); 
Ficus sylvestris var. festinatissima Geny.— 
First crop 24 inches long by 12. inches Fia. 45,—Briasca fig. 
wide; pyriform, rounded, eye reddish, ~ 
protruding; skin reddish-brown: pulp red. Nice and Provence. (Fig. 45.) 
Briasca—ROLANDINA,. 
Briasca Doussa—Sweet Briasca; Brayasque; Ficus dulcissima Risso; Sweet Bray- 
asque.—Above medium; 2} inches long by 1} inches wide, with very short 
neck and short stalks; skin shining, blackish purple, shaded red; pulp red- 
dish but pale. The figs, known as ‘‘buffros,” are very early and sweet, but 
poor in taste. Leaves 3-lobed. Draguignan and Provence, France. 
Brizanzola. —lItalian fig. 
Brocket Hall—IscuH1a, WHITE. 
Brogiotto Bianco—BaARNISSOTTE, WHITE. 
Brogiotto Genovese—BARNISSOTTE, WHITE. 
Brogiotto fiorentino—BaRNISsoTTE, BLACK, 
Brogiotto Nero—BaRNIssoTrTE, BLACK. 
Brown Coucourel—COUCcCURELE BRUNE, 
Broun Hamburgh—BRuNSwICcK. 
Brown Italian—BRowNn TURKEY. 
Brown Naples—BROwWN TURKEY. 
Brown Turkey—Ashridge 1 orcing; Blue; Common Blue; Blue Burgundy; Brown 
Italian; Brown Naples; Long Naples; Early Howick; Italian; Large Blue; 
Lee’s Perpetual; Murrey; Purple; Fleur Rouge; Walton; Turkey, Brown (all 
synonyms according to Hogg).—Large size. Turbinate-pyriform with small 
but hardy distinct neck; stalks short or variable; fig flattened toward apex; 
ribs few, slightly elevated; eye medium, slightly open: scales large, rosy brown, 
all depressed; raised iris. Skin smooth, greenish in shade, violet brown in 
the sun, with darker ribs. Pulp dark rosy red, seed small, good quality, A 
