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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 



Bossiaea continued. 



one-flowered, elongated. May. I. elliptic, mucronate. Branches 

 terete, prostrate, puberulous. 1824. A procumbent shrub. 

 B. linophylla (Flax-leaved).* ft. orange and purple. July to 

 August. I. linear, with recurved margins. Branches compressed, 

 leafy. A. 1ft to 4ft. 1803. (B. M. 2491.) 



B. microphylla (small-leaved). I. cuneiformly obcordate, gla- 

 brous. Branches terete, leafy, spinescent ; young branches 

 rather compressed and pubescent. A. 1ft. to 2ft. 1803. (L. B. C. 



B. rhombifolia (diamond-leaved).* fl. yellow, the vexillum having 

 a dark red zonate mark at the base ; wings red at the base ; keel 

 brownish - purple. April. I. rhomboidal - orbicular, somewhat 

 emarginate and mucronate. Branches terete; branchlets com- 

 pressed, leafy. A. 1ft. to 3ft. 1820. SYN. B. lenticularis. (L. B. C. 

 1238.) 



B. rotundifolla (round-leaved). I. roundish, or broadly obovate, 

 somewhat mucronate, flat, four to five lines long and five to six 

 broad. Branches and branchlets leafy, compressed. A. 1ft. to 

 2ft. 1824. 



B. scolopendrium (plank-plant), ft. yellow, with the back of 

 the vexillum and keel brownish-red. May. I. (when present) 

 ovate and smooth. Branches flat, linear, leafless, toothed, with 

 the teeth bearing the flowers ; keel naked ; superior bracts 

 permanent, imbricate, equal in length to the peduncles. A. 3ft. 

 to 10ft. 1792. (B. M. 1235.) 

 B. tenuicaulis (slender-stemmed). Synonymous with B. einerea. 



BOSWELLIA (named after Dr. Boswell, formerly of 

 Edinburgh). Olibanum Tree. ORD. Burseracece. Orna- 

 mental and economic evergreen stove trees. Flowers her- 

 maphrodite; calyx five-toothed, permanent; petals five, 

 obovate-oblong, spreading, with the margins incumbent in 

 sestivation; disk cup-shaped, crenate; stamens ten; cap- 

 sule trigonal. They are of easy culture, thriving well in 

 loam and peat soil. Cuttings root readily if placed in sand 

 under a glass. 



B. glabra (glabrous), fl. white, small, with a red nectary and 

 yellow anthers ; racemes aggregate, simple, terminal, shorter than 

 the leaves. I. impari-pinnate ; leaflets broad, lanceolate, blunt, 

 serrated, smooth. A. 30ft. Coromandel, 1823. (B. F. S. 124.) 



B. serrate (saw-edged-leaved).* fl. whitish-yellow ; racemes axil- 

 lary, simple. I. impari-pinnate ; leaflets ovate-oblong, taper- 

 pointed, serrated, pubescent. A. 20ft. India, 1820. (T. L. S.xv.;4.) 



BOTANY BAY GUM. See Xanthorrhcea 

 arborea. 



BOTANY BAY TEA (and TREE). See Smilax 

 glycyphylla. 



BOTHY. A residence for under-gardeners, usually 

 built behind the hothouses, or some high wall, in what is 

 called a back shed. The place is too frequently a cramped, 

 ill-ventilated hovel. A Bothy proper should be an indepen- 

 dent structure, and fitted with modern conveniences ; for, of 

 all people, gardeners are the most susceptible to colds, &c. 



A. library of standard horticultural and botanical works, as 

 well as a few on other scientific subjects, and a moderate 

 number of high-class books of fiction, one or more weekly 

 gardening and other papers, should be supplied by the em- 

 ployer. During the winter months, for mutual improve- 

 ment, lectures should be delivered, or papers read, by each 

 gardener, on various subjects, after which a free discussion 

 should take place upon the paper or lecture, by which means 

 a great amount of good would be accomplished. 



BOTRYCHIUM (from botrys, a bunch; in reference 

 to the bunch-like disposition of the indusia). Moonwort. 

 ORD. Filices. A genus of very interesting and pretty little 

 hardy ferns. Capsules sessile, arranged in two rows on 

 the face of spikes which form a compound panicle. They 

 require a compost of sandy loam ; perfect drainage is most 

 essential. For general culture, see Ferns. 



B. australe (southern). A variety of B. ternatum. 



B. daucifolinm (Daucus-leaved). M. stout, 6in. to 12in. long ; 

 petiole of sterile segments lin. to 6in. long, the latter 6in. to 12in. 

 each way, deltoid, tripinnatifld or tripinnate, the lower pinnae 

 largest ; segments lanceolate-oblong, Jin. to lin. broad, finely 

 toothed, fertile peduncle equalling the sterile segments when 

 mature ; panicle 2in. to 4in. long ; tripinnate, not very close. 

 Himalayas, &c. Greenhouse species. SYN. B. subeamosum. 



B. Lunaria. Common Moonwort.* 



much broader than the middle, cut down to a flattened 



sti. lin. to 4in. long, sterile 

 segments sessile, or nearly so, lin. to Sin. long, $in. to lin. broad, 



Botrychium continued. 



rachis into several distinct, close, entire, or notched cuneate- 

 flabellate pinnae on both sides, fertile peduncle equalling or 

 exceeding the sterile portion ; panicle close, lin. to 2in. long. 

 England, &c. Hardy. See Fig 



FIG. 267. BOTRYCHIUM LUNARIA, showing Habit, Capsule, and 

 Spores. 



B. lnnariold.es (Lunaria-like). A variety of B. ternatum, 

 B. obliquum (oblique). A variety of B. ternatum. 

 B. subeamosum (sub-fleshy). A synonym of B. daucifolium. 

 B. ternatum (ternate).* tti. lin. to 2in. long, petiole of th 



