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BUCKRAMS, from its offensive odour, see RAMSON. 



Allium ursinum, L. 



in Parkinson's Th. Bot. and some other Herbals, for buck- 

 rampe, in allusion to the spathe and spadix, 



Arum maculatum, L. 



BUCKTHORN, from M. Lat. spina cervina, or cervi spina 

 of Valerius Cordus, who seems to have misunderstood its 

 German name buzdorn, i.e. box-thorn, a translation of the 

 TrvgaicavOa. of Dioscorides, to which this shrub and its con- 

 geners were referred by the earlier herbalists, for bocksdorn, 

 the thorn of a buck, Rhamnus catharticus, L. 



BUCKWHEAT, Du. boekweit, G. buchucaitzen, from the 

 resemblance of its triangular seeds to beechnuts, a name 

 adopted with its culture from the Dutch, 



Polygonuin Fagopyrum, L. 



BUBBLE, in Tusser spelt BOOBLE, Du. buidel, a purse, 

 because it bears gools or goldins, gold coins, Du. gulden ; a 

 punning allusion to its yellow flowers so called ; 



Chrysanthemum segetum, L. 



BUG AGARIC, a mushroom that used to be smeared over 

 bedsteads to destroy bugs, Agaricus muscarius, L. 



BUGLE, M.L. bugula, dim. of abuga, one of the various 

 spellings of a word given by Pliny as corresponding to 

 Gr. ^a/iatTTtru?, and variously written abiga, ajuga, iva, 

 etc. Ajuga reptans, L. 



BuGLOSS, L. buglossa, from Gr. /Sou?, an ox, and yXaxra-a, 

 tongue, descriptive of the shape and rough surface of the 

 leaves, Anchusa officinalis, L. 



VIPER'S-, Echium vulgare, L. 



BUGLOSS COWSLIP, the lung-wort, from its having the 

 leaves of a bugloss and the flowers of a primula, 



Pulmonaria oflicinalis, L. 



BULLACE, in the Grete Herball bolays, in Turner bulles, 

 in Pr. Pm. bolas, the Sp. bolas, bullets, Lat. bullas, bosses 



