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French professor of agriculture. Nat. 

 ord., Capparids [Capparidaceae]. Linn., 

 11-Dodecaudria \-Monoyynia. ) 



Cuttings of firm wood in heat, in sand, under a 

 glass ; lumpy, fibry loam and peat. Summer 

 temp., 60 to 80 ; winter, 60. 

 B. Senegale'nsis (Senegal). 3. White. Senegal. 

 1824. 



BOSSEE'A. (Named after Bossieu, who 

 accompanied La Perouse on his fatal 

 voyage. Nat. ord., Leguminous Plants 

 [Fabacea?]. Linn., IQ-Afonadflphia Q-De- 

 candria. Allied to Hovea.) 



Greenhouse evergreen shrubs and trailers ; cut- 

 tings of half-ripe shoots in sand, under a bell- 

 glass, in April; peat and loam, both fibry, with a 

 portion of silver-sand, and some pieces of charcoal, 

 to keep the soil open ; also seeds sown in a slight 

 hotbed, in March. Summer temp., 60 to 75; 

 winter, 40 to 50. 



B. buxifo'lia (box-leaved). 4. Yellow. May* 

 N. Holland. 1324. 



cine'rca (grey). 3. Yellow. June. Van 



Diemen's Land. 1802. 



Cardiff t'lia (heart-leaved), l. Yellow. May. 



N. Holland. 1820. 



di'sticha (two-rowed). 2. Yellow. May. 



N. Holland. 1840. 



en&a'ta (sword-branched). 6. Yellow. May. 



N. Holland. 1824. 



erioca'rpa (woolly-podded). 1. Yellow. May. 



King George's Sound. 1837. 

 folio'sa (leafy). 4. Yellow. May. N. Holland. 

 1824. 



Henderso'nii (Henderson's). Yellow and 



bronze. N. S. Wales. 1844. 



heterophy'lla (various-leaved). 3. Yellow. 



September. N. S. Wales. 1792. 



Icnticula'ris (lentil-leaved). 3. Yellow. June. 



N. Holland. 1823. 



Lineeoi'des ( Linn jea-I ike). Yellow. May. N. 



Holland. 1824. 



linopliy'lln (flax-leaved). 3. Orange. August. 



N. Holland. 1803. 



microphy'lla (small-leavsd). 3. Yellow. July. 



N. S. Wales. ISO*. 



ova' to, (egg-shape-ewc?). Yellow. April. 



N. S. Wales. 1792. 



paucifo'lia (few-leaved). 2. Yellow, brown. 



June. Swan River. 184!. 



prostra'tu (prostrate). . Yellow. August. 



N. S. Wales. 1803. 



r hombifo'lia (diamond-leaved). 1. Yellow. 



May. N. Holland. 1S20. 



rotundifo'lia (round-leaved). 3. Yellow. May. 



N. Holland. 1824. 



ru'fa (reddish-yellow-/oM7ered). 6. Orange. 



August. N. Holland. 1803. 



scolope'ndrium (hart's - tongue - leaved). 10. 



Yellow. June. N. S. Wales. 1792. 



s/7me'scews(spined). Yellow. N. Holland. 184Q. 



tenuicau'lis (slender-stemmed). . Yellow. 



April. Van Diemen's Land. 1836. 



virga'ta (twiggy). 2. Yellow, red. June 



Swan River. 1842. 



BOSTRICHUS, a class of beetles, many 

 of which are very injurious to the crop 

 of the garden. 



B. dispar, Apple-bark beetle. Th 

 female of this insect bores into the woo 

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of the apple-tree, and there deposits her 

 eggs, generally in the month of May ; 

 and its perforations are so numerous and 

 extensive, as frequently, on the continent, 

 o destroy the tree. In England it rarely 

 occurs. The perforations are confined 

 o the alburnum, or young wood. 



B. typographies, Typographer - bark 

 Beetle. This attacks the pine-tribe, espe- 

 cially the silver-fir. A drawing of this 

 nsect is given at page 329, vol. iii, of 

 The Cottage Gardener. 



B.pinastri, Pinaster, or Bed-bark beetle, 

 ;onfines its attacks to the pines, leaving 

 ;he firs untouched, as the B. larius lives 

 exclusively on the larch, and the B. ortho- 

 jraphits on the spruce-fir. 



BOSWE'LLIA. Olibanuin-tree. (Named 

 after Dr. Boswell, of Edinburgh. Nat. 

 ord., Amy rids [Amarydacese]. Linn., 10- 

 Decandria \-Monoyynia.} 



The brittle resin of Boswellia, boiled with oil 

 o render it soft, is used in the East as pitch for 

 he bottoms of ships, and, in the dry state, as 

 rankincense. Stove trees ; cuttings of half- 

 ripened shoots, in sand and peat'; peat and loam. 

 Summer temp., 60 to 80 ; winter, 50 to 60. 

 B. gla'bra (smooth). 30. Pale yellow. Coro- 



mandel. 1823. 



serra'ta (saw-edged-Jea0ed). 20. Pale yellow., 

 E. Ind. 1820. 



BOTHY. The lodgings assigned to 

 young gardeners in the northern part of 

 the kingdom ; and miserable hovels they 

 often were, and, in some cases, still are. 



BOTRY'CERAS. (From botrys, a bunch, 

 and Jceras, a horn ; in reference to the 

 Dunches of horn-like racemes. Nat. ord., 

 Anacards [Anacardiacese]. Linn., 4- 

 Tclrandria \-Monoyy ma.) 



Greenhouse evergreen shrubs ; cuttings of 

 ripened shoots in sand, under a hand-light, in a 

 frame, and the hand-light tilted up at night ; 

 sandy peat. Summer temp., 55 to 65; winter, 

 38 to 45. 



B. lauri'num (laurel-like). 4. N. Holland. 1823. 

 BOTRY'CHIUM. Moonwort. (From bo- 



r?/.s, a bunch; in reference to the bunch - 

 like formation of the seed-apparatus on 

 the back of the leaf. Nat. ord., Fern a 



[Polypodiacesej. Linn., 2-Cryptogamiu 

 I-Filices.) 



Perennial Ferns, hardy, with but one exception ; 

 chiefly divisions; peat and loam. B. uustra'U; 

 should be protected in winter. 

 B. austra'le (southern). . Brown. June. N. 

 Holland. 1823. Half-hardy. 



disse'ctum (cnt-leavcd). $. Brown. July. 



N. Amer. 1806. 



fumarioi'des (fumitory-like), i. Brown. July. 

 Carolina. 1806. 



luna'rium (common moonwort). J 



May. Britain. 



