BRU 



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BRU 



^ Bruchus atcr. The Furze Beetle. This 

 little insect is shown in the annexed cul 

 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 Feb- 

 ruary deposit their eggs in the germs, or 

 young seed-vessels, of the winter-bloom- 

 ing furze ; and the same insects may be 

 found again in Jime similarly employed 

 upon the summer-blooming furze. The 

 grub hatched from her eggs lives upon 

 the seeds, and every one who has no- 

 ticed 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, Bru- 

 chus pisi, is greatly destructive to the 

 pea crops. It is a small brownish beetle, 

 usually found at the time the plants are 

 in flower, and depositing eggs in the 

 tender seeds of leguminous plants, and 

 sometimes in different kinds of corn. In 

 these the larva, a small white fleshy 

 grub, finds both a suitable habitation 

 and an abundance of food. It undergoes 

 all its transformations in the seed, and 

 the perfect insect remains in it till the 

 spring, though in fine autumns the per- 

 fect insects appear at that season also. 

 The larvse possess the singular instinct 

 of never attacking the vital part of the 

 seed till the last. "We have often ob- 

 served the seed-pots of Ghorozema, and 

 other delicate and scarce leguminous 



Slants in greenhouses, pierced by the 

 ruckus pisi. The more effectual re- 

 medy 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. 



BRT/NIA. (Named after C. Bnm, a 

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

 niads [Bruniacea3]. Linn., 5-Pentandria, 

 \-Monoyynia). Greenhouse evergreen 

 shrubs and undershrubs, 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. 



B. como'sa (tufted). 3. White. July. 1820. 



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



cricoi'rfcs (heath-like). 3. White. July. 



1804. 



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



fflobo'sa (globe-like). 2. White. July. 



1816. 



lafvis (smooth). 2. White. July. 1822. 



macrophy'lla (large-leaved). 1. White. 



July. 1815. 



nodiflcfra (knot-flowered). 6. White. 



July. 1786. 



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



1824. 



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



July. 1820. 



tupfrba (superb). 4. White. June. 1791. 



rerticillcfta (whorled). 3. White. July. 



1794. 



BRUNEI' CHIA. (Named after Brun- 

 nich, a Danish botanist. Nat. ord., 

 Buckwheats [Polygonacc^]. Linn., 10- 

 Decandria 1-Trigyni(i}. Greenhouse 

 evergreen climber. Cuttings root freely; 

 fibry loam, with a little sand. Summer 

 temp., 60 to 70 ; winter, 38 to 46. 

 Pink. 



2?. cirrJio'sn (tendrilled) . 

 Carolina. 1787. 



July. 



BRUXO'NIA. (Named after Dr. Brown, 

 the celebrated English botanist. Nat. 

 ord., Brunoniads (Brunoniacete). Dr. 

 Brown himself, and other great authori- 

 ties, have been, and still are, in doubts 

 as to the true position and affinity of 

 the solitary genus of which this order 

 s composed. Herbaceous perennial. 

 Seeds and divisions; sandy loam and 

 fibry peat. It requires the protection 

 of a frame or greenhouse in winter, being 

 neat and fragrant. 



B. austra'Us (southern). 1. Blue. New 

 Holland. 1834. 



BRTXSFE'LSIA. (Named after Brtms- 

 fcls, a German physician. Nat. ord., 

 Figworts [Scrophulariaccoo]. Linn., 14- 

 Didynamia, l-Angiospcrmia. Allied to 

 Salpiglossis). "We have added Franciscca 

 :o this genus. Stove evergreen shrubs. 

 Outtings, in sandy soil in a moist heat ; 

 ich lumpy fibry soil. Summer temp., 

 30 to 75 ; winter, 50 to 55. 



JB. acumina'ta (taper-pomted-7emrd). 2. Pur. 



pie. April, llio Janeiro. 

 America' no- (American). 4. Pale yellow. 

 June. West Indies. 173J. 



angustifo' Ha (narrow-leaved). 



4. Pale yellow. July. West Indies. 



latifutlia (broad-leaved). 4. Pale 



yellow. June. West Indies. 

 angu'sta (narrow-leaved). 2. Purple. 



