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head, where they are also tinged with 

 red. The head droops, the eyes are 

 prominent, the fore-legs are rusty- co 

 loured. This little heetle may be founc 

 upon various flowers during seven 

 months of the year. In February it may 

 be found on the furze-blossom, in June 

 upon the white-thorn, and in July anc 

 August upon the spiraea and rhubarb 

 flowers. The female pierces through the 

 pod of the pea and bean whilst very 

 young, and often deposits an egg in each 

 seed. Probably the best mode of destroy- 

 ing this insect would be to subject the 

 seed, as soon as harvested, for some 

 hours, until thoroughly heated, to a tern 

 perature of 150. This, we think, would 

 kill the grubs without injuring the seed. 

 Bruchus ater. The Furze Beetle. This 

 little insect is shown in the annexed cut 

 of its natural size, as well as magnified. 



It is black, with its elytra (wing-cases) 

 marked with lines and lighter- coloured 

 dots; antennae (feelers) divided into 

 eleven joints. The females, in February, 

 deposit their eggs in the germs, or young 

 seed- vessels,of the winter-blooming furze ; 

 and the same insects may be found again, 

 in June, similarly employed upon the sum- 

 mer-blooming furze. The grub hatched 

 from her eggs lives upon the seeds ; and 

 every one who has noticed this plant 

 must be aware that its ripe seed-vessels 

 often contain nothing but a little rough 

 powder a powder which is the refuse of 

 the seeds destroyed by the grub of this 

 insect. Another member of this family of 

 beetles, Bruchus pisi, is greatly destruc- 

 tive to the pea crops. It is a small, 

 brownish beetle, usually found at the 

 time the plants are in flower, and depo- 

 siting eggs in the tender seeds of legu- 



minous plants, and sometimes in dif- 

 ferent kinds* of corn. In these the 

 larva a small, white, fleshy grub finds 

 both a suitable habitation and an abund- 

 ance of foo'd. It undergoes all its trans- 

 formations in the seed; and the perfect 

 insect remains in it till the spring, 

 though in fine autumns the perfect in- 

 sects appear at that season also. The 

 larvaj possess the singular instinct of 

 never attacking the vital part of the seed 

 till the last. We have ofttn observed the 

 seed-pots of Ghorozema, und other deli- 

 cate and scarce leguminous plants in 

 greenhouses, pierced by the Bruchus pisi. 

 The more effectual remedy is to pull up 

 and burn the haulm and pods altogether, 

 and not attempt to get a crop at all. 

 Cottage Gardener, i. and iii. 



BRUGMA'NSIA. (This genus is united 

 to Datura.) 



BRUISE. See CANKER. 



BRU'NIA. (Named after C. Brun, a 

 traveller in the Levant. Nat. ord., Bru- 

 niads [Bruniaceeej. Linn., o-Pentandria 

 \-Monogynia.) 



Greenhouse evergreen shrubs and under-shrubs, 

 from the Cape of Good Hope. Cuttings of young- 

 shoots in sand, under a hand-light, in summer; 

 sandy peat. Summer temp., 50 to 65; winter, 

 38 to 45. 

 n. como'sa (tufted). 3. White. July. 1320. 



e'legans (elegant). 2. White. July. 1817. 



ericoi'des (heath-like). 3. White. July. 1-804. 



formo'sa (handsome). 2. White. 1817. 



globo'sa( globe-like). 2. White. July. 1816. 



Ice' vis (smooth). 2. White. July. 1322. 



inacrophy'lla (large-leaved). 1. White. July. 



1815. 



nodifiufra (knot-flowered). 6. White. July. 



1786. 



plumo'sa (feathery). 2. White. July. 1924. 



squarro'sa (broad-spreading). 2. White. July. 



1820. 



supefrba (superb). 4. White. June. 1/91. 



verticilla'ta (whorled-). 3. White. July. 1794. 



BRUNNI'CHIA. (Named after Brunnich, 

 a Danish botanist. Nat. ord., Buckwheats 

 "PolygonaceseJ. Linn., IQ-JDecandria 2- 



Greenhouse evergreen climber. Cuttinjrs root 

 reely ; fibry loam, with a little sand. Summer 

 emp., 60 to 70 ; winter, 38 to 45. 

 B. cirrAo / *a(tendrillcd). 6. Pink. July. Carolina. 



1787. 



BRUNO'NIA. (Named after Dr. Brown, 

 he celebrated English botanist. Nat. 

 >rd., Brunoniads [Brunoniaceje]. Lin- 

 ntean class and order uncertain.) 



Dr. Brown himself, and other great authorities, 

 iave been, and still are, in doubts as to the true 

 losition and affinity of the solitary genus of 

 i'hich this order is composed. Herbaceous per- 

 nnial. Seeds and divisions ; sandy loam and 



