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BULLACE. See Prnnus ixurititia. 

 BULLACE, or MUSCADINE. See Vitis vul- 

 pina. 



BULLATE. Blistered or puckered. 

 BULRUSH, or CLUB-BUSH. & Typha. 



BUNCHOSIA (from bunches, the Arabic name for 

 Coffee ; in allusion to the similarity between the seeds of 

 this genus and those of Coffee). OBD. Malpighiacea. 

 Ornamental greenhouse evergreen shrubs, nearly allied to 

 Malpighia, but having the racemes of flowers axillary. 

 Fruit fleshy, indehiscent, externally smooth, and containing 

 two or three seeds. They thrive best in a compost of loam, 

 peat, leaf soil, and sand, in about equal proportions. 



Bunchosia continued. 

 odorata (fragrant).* JL yellow, sweet^cented ; 



(from bout, an or, and ophthal- 

 mot, the eye; the disk of the flower being ox-eye-like). 

 Oxeye. OBD. Campotitat. Very showy and ornamental hardy 

 perennial plants, thriving freely in common garden aoQ. 

 They are propagated by divisions, made in autumn or 

 spring. 



B. grandlflorum (large-flowered).* JL-keadt yellow, large ; In- 

 ToTucre naked. June to October. L alternate-lanceolate, some- 

 what toothleted, smooth. A. IJft. Austria, 1722. Hardy 

 herbaceous perennial. 



B. salicifolium (Willow-leared).* .fi.-kead* yellow, solitary, rather 



FIG. 302. BUBBIDGEA MTIDA. 



Cuttings of ripened shoots wiU root in sand under a bell 

 glass, in moist bottom heat, taking several weeks to do so. 

 Good drainage is essential, both in striking cuttings and in 

 the cultivation of the plants. 

 B. argentea (silYery).* JL yellow; racemes opposite,rimple, 



pubescent. July. L lanceolate, silrery beneath. Branches 



puberulous. ft. IB. Caraecas, 18KX 

 B. glandulifera (gland-bearing). JL yellow; racemes simple, 



axillary. March to May. i. efiiptical-OTate, on short petioles, 



wavy, pubescent on both surfaces, furnished with four glands 



beneath at the base. k. 10ft. Caraecas, 1806. 

 B. nitida (shining), /t yellow; racemes elongated, almost the 



lemrth of the leaTes. July. fr. large, red ; it is much eaten by 



turkeys and other large fowl. J. 4in. long, oblong, acuminated. 



smooth, glandlea*. A. 4ft. Jamaica, IflOO. 



large, terminal; inTolucre naked. June. I. alternate, oblong. 



lanceolate, sub-serrated, three-nerved, rilloos. A. IJft. Austria, 



1758. 

 B.specic*iBslmum (showiest).* JL-headt yellow. July. A. 2ft 



South Europe, 1826. Sf>. Telekia tpecioiitrima. 



BUPLEUEUM (derivation not satisfactorily explained). 

 Hare's-Ear. OBD. Umbtlliferx. A somewhat extensive 

 perms of quite glabrous shrubs or herbaceous plants. 

 Flowers yellowish ; umbels compound. Leaves mostly 

 quite entire. But few of this genus are worth growing, 

 and all are of the easiest culture in common garden soil. 

 Propagation is effected, in the case of annuals, by seed, sown 

 in the open border in March or April; in the case of 

 perennials by division, in either spring or autumn ; an J in 



