BUB 



BUB 



and useful branch of trade, manufacture, 

 machinery, or the like : to this end pro- 

 posals were made out, shewing the advan- 

 tages to be derived from the undertaking, 

 aiul inviting persons to be engaged in it. 

 The sum necessary to manage the. affair, 

 together with the profits expected from 

 it, .vere divided into shares or subscrip- 

 tions, to be purchased by any disposed to 

 adventure therein. 



Bubbles, by which the public have been 

 tricked, are of two kinds, viz. 1. Those 

 which we may properly enough term trad- 

 ing bubbles; and, 2. Stock or fund-bub- 

 bles. The former have been of various 

 kinds ; and the latter at different times ; 

 the most remarkable one in this country 

 was that in 1720. 



BUBO, in ornithology, the name by 

 which zoologists call the great horned 

 owl, with a reddish-brown body. See 

 STRIX. 



BCBO, in surgery, a tumour which 

 arises, with inflammation, only in certain 

 or particular parts to which they are pro- 

 per, as in the arm-pits and in the groins. 



BUBON, in botany, a genus of the Pen- 

 tandria Digynia. Natural order of Um- 

 bellatse. Essential character : fruit ovate, 

 striated, viliose. There are five species, of 

 which B.macedonicum, Macedonian pars- 



ley, sends out many leaves from the 

 root, the lower growing almost horizon- 

 tally, spreading near the surface of the 

 ground ; the foot stalk of each leaf di- 

 vides into several other smaller, garnish- 

 ed with smooth rhomb-shaped leaves, 

 which are of a bright pale-green colour, 

 indented on their edges. It is a native 

 of Greece and Barbary. It flowers with 

 us from June to August. In warm coun- 

 tries it is biennial, but in England the 

 plants seldom flower till the third or fourth 

 year from seed; but whenever they flow- 

 er they always die. B. galbanum, lovage- 

 leaved bubon, rises with an upright 

 stalk to the height of eight or ten feet, 

 having a purplish bark, covered with a 

 whitish powder, which comes off when 

 handled ; the upper part of the stalk is 

 covered with leaves at every joint, the 

 foot stalks half embracing them at their 

 base, brandling out into several smaller, 

 like those of the common parsley, and set 

 with leaves like those of lovage, but 

 smaller, and of a grey colour. It flowers 

 in August, but hasjnot produced seeds in 

 England. When any part of the plant is 

 broken, there issues out a little thin milk, 

 of a cream colour, which has a strong 

 scent of galbanum. It is a native of the 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



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