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renew the heat'; and if it is wanted, some fresh tan must be 

 ;idded to the bed, to encourage the roots of the plants. In 

 this bed they may remain, till autumn, when they must be 

 removed into the stove, and plunged into the tan-bed, where 

 they must constantly remain, for they are too tender to thrive 

 in this country if they are not so treated. During the winter 

 they must have but little water, and should be kept warm ; 

 but in summer they should have fresh air admitted to them 

 constantly when the weather is warm,and frequently sprinkled 

 all over with water : with this management the plants will 

 flower the fourth year from seeds, and continue to do so every 

 year after, and will make a good appearance in the stove. 



2. Buddlea Occidentals; Spear-leaved Buddlea. Leaves 

 lanceolate. This sort rises much taller than the first, and 

 divides intoa great number of branches, covered with a russet 

 hairy bark. Grows naturally in gullies, or other low shel- 

 tered spots, in the West Indies, the branches, being too tender 

 to resist the force of strong winds, are rarely seen in open 

 situations. For its culture, see the first species. 



3. Buddlea Virgata. Leaves linear, oblong, obtuse, en- 

 tire ; racemes terminal ; branches wand-like, erect ; branches 

 and leaves hoary with a fine down. This has the habit of Hys- 

 sop. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



4. Buddlea Incompta. Leaves fascicled, ovate, hoary ; 

 branches flexuose, rigid j racemes terminal. Native of the 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



5. Buddlea Globosa; Round -lieaded Buddlea. Leaves 

 lanceolate ; heads solitary. A branched evergreen shrub, 

 eight to ten feet high. Native of Chili ; flowering in May 

 and June. This, and the sixth species, may be propagated 

 by cuttings, on an old hot-bed, in July, covered with a bell 

 or hand glass, and shaded from the sun ; in a month they will 

 have taken root, and may then be planted in pots, placed in 

 the shade, till they have taken fresh root, when they should 

 be removed to a sheltered situation till the winter; and then 

 they must be preserved in the conservatory or dry stove. 

 The fifth will flower well, and live through a mild winter in 

 an open border, provided it be in a warm sheltered situation. 



6. Buddlea Salvifolia ; Sage-leaved Buddlea. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate, ovate, cordate, wrinkled. A shrub, five or six feet 

 high, with tomentose four-cornered branches. Native of 

 the Cape, flowering in August and September. See the fifth 

 species. 



7. Buddlea Asiatica. Leaves lanceolate-linear wrinkled 

 smooth ; spikes full ; stem suffruticose, three feet high. 

 Native of Cochin-china. 



8. Buddlea Ternata. Leaves ternate, acuminate; pedun- 

 cles one-flowered; stem suffruticose, two feet high, upright, 

 round, branched. Native of Cochin-china. 



Buffonia ; a genus of the class Tetrandria, order Digy- 

 nia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth four-leaved, 

 erect, permanent. ; leaflets subulate, keeled, with membra- 

 naceous edges. Corolla : petals four, oval, emarginate, erect, 

 equal, shorter than the calix. Stamina: filamenta four, 

 equal, the length of the germen ; antherae twin. Pistil: 

 . germen ovate, compressed ; styles two, the length of the 

 stamina; stigmas simple. Pericarp: capsule oval, com- 

 pressed, one-celled, two-valved. Seeds: two, oval, com- 

 pressed, with a swelling, convex on one side. ESSEN. CHAR. 

 Calit: four-leaved. Corolla: four-petalled. Capsule: one- 

 celled, two-seeded. The only species is, 



1. Buffoniu Tenuifolia ; Small Bujfonia, or Bastard Chick- 

 weed. Root annual, long, slender, firmly fixed, but having 

 few, almost naked, filiform fibres ; stem halt a foot to a foot 

 in height, upright, round, commonly branched at the base ; 

 branches diffused, procumbent; there are also smaller 



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branches higher up, which are straight, contracted, subdi- 

 vided ; the swelling joints more frequent at bottom, an:! 

 become very distant towards the top ; the internodes art- 

 round, where there are no branches, but somewhat angulur 

 about the origin of the branches, which are ancipital at the 

 base , they are smooth, and slightly streaked. Ray first no- 

 ticed this little plant in England : he also found it near Mont- . 

 pellier. It is found wild in France, Italy, and Spain, and 

 was observed by Mr. Ray on the sea-coast of Lincolnshire, 

 about Boston, and by Mr. Doody on Hounslow Heath. It . 

 flowers in May and June. 



Bugle. See Ajuga. 



Bugloss, Buglossa, and Buglossum. See Anchusa, Aspe- 

 rugo, Borago, Lythospcrmum, Lycopsis. 



Bugloss, Piper's. See Echium. 



Bulbocodium ; a genus of the class Hexandria, order Mo- 

 nogynia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: none. Corolla: 

 hexapetalous, funnel-form; claws very long, linear ; throat 

 connecting the petals ; border erect; petals lanceolate, con- 

 cave. Stamina: filamenta six, subulate, inserted into the 

 claws of the petals ; antherae incumbent. Pistil : germen 

 ovate subulate, obtusely three-cornered, superior ; style fili- 

 form, the length of the stamina; stigmas three, oblong, erect, 

 channelled. Pericarp: capsule triangular, acuminate; angles 

 obscure, three-celled. Seeds: numerous. ESSEN. CHAR. 

 Corolla : funnel-form.hexapetalous, with narrow claws bearing 



the stamina. Capsule : inferior. The only known species is, 



1. Bulbocodium Vernum; Spring-Jlowering Bulbocodium. 

 Leaves lanceolate. The bulb or hybernacle, commonly called 

 the root, resembles that of the common Colchicum in shape, 

 but is much smaller : it is covered with a dark brown skin. 

 Some time in January, or not later than the middle of Fe- 

 bruary, according to the season, the flower springs up, 

 inclosed within three brownish green leaves, which, opening 

 themselves almost as soon as they are out of the ground, show 

 their buds for flowers within them very white oftentimes be- 

 fore they open far, and also purplish at first appearing. There 

 is frequently only one flower, but never more than two flowers, 

 on a root; they never rise above the leaves, nor the leaves 

 much higher than they, whilst they last ; they are smaller 

 than the flowers of Colchicum, and are at first of a pale red 

 or deep blue colour, but afterwards change to a bright pur- 

 ple, and continue long in beauty, if the weather benot severe. 

 After the flowers are past, the leaves grow to the length of a 

 man's longest finger, and in the middle of them rises up the 

 seed-vessel, which is smaller, shorter, and harder than that 

 of Colchicum, and contains many small round brown seeds. 

 It is a native of Spain, and also of mountainous situations in 

 Russia. At present it is a rare plant among us, the bulbs 

 not admitting of much increase, and being liable to damage 

 from frost. It is propagated by offsets, like other bulbous- 

 rooted flowers. The time to remove them, is soon after the 

 leaves decay, but the roots may be kept out of the ground 

 two months without prejudice at that season : they should 

 not be removed oftener than every third year, for the roots 

 do not multiply very fast ; by suffering them, therefore, to 

 remain, they will flower much stronger, and make a greater in- 

 crease, than if they are often taken up. It should have a warm 

 situation, and may be planted in a south border, in a fresh 

 loamy soil but not dunged. It may also be propagated by 

 seeds, which should be sown in pots filled with fresh loamy, 

 earth, in September; and the latter end of October the pots 

 should be placed under a frame, to protect them from severe 

 frost ; in the spring the plants will appear, when they may 

 be removed out of the frame, and placed where they may 

 have the morning sun, but screened from the south. In very 

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