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ancient fovfav, and Soufevov, which he cites as still surviving (in 
literary Greek only ?); and if not, then with no connection to the 
similar Spanish Bobas.—If mawet was misprint for muguet or 
muguette, it becomes a synonym for Convallaria, and Aspergula, 
and for nutmeg ; all were so called by Lobel. 
BriTAnica, or Herba Brittanica.—A name from Dioscorides, 
became confused with Aster, fide J. Bauhin; and gave name to 
Inula Britannica L., which Sibthorp, who found it in Greece, 
deemed xovvfa totta, D. ; 
BrucHKRAUT?T.—Ger., Ayff, “on account of use for hernia,” 
1543; Dodoens, 1554-1616; Lobel, 1576; J. Bauhin, 1650. 
BuBONION, Sovfwuvov, = “the Groin plant,’ Azey, so named 
from its repute as a cure for inguinal tumors or buboes, (Gr. fov- 
Ady, the groin): D. (interpolation ?) Pliny, Oribasius. ovfay, the 
groin, is given as still in use by Contopoulos, 1868 (though his 
printer reduces it to griv). 
Busontum, Latinized form of the preceding ; all late mediaeval 
and renaissance writers, Ortus, etc.; with transfer to a related 
Inula of similar repute. Tabernaemontanus, 1588, used it as name 
Bubonium for two or more species, one of which appeared later as 
the Aster Bubonium, Scopoli, /nula Bubonium Jacquin, and is now 
known as /uula salicina L. and J. spiraeifolia L. Desfontaines 
claimed that it was the true Bubonium or Aster of Pliny. 
The umbelliferous genus Budon L., was named from a sim- 
ilar reputation but without confusion with Budonim. 
The preceding, it will be noted, have no affinity with d/o, 
the toad, or dufonius, sheltering toads (as the familiar Juncus bufonius 
L.); from disregarding this difference a whole fable about the 
Aster relieving the wounded toad grew up in mediaeval Germany 
(see Dorstenius). 
Nor have they any more affinity with the modern Greek 
plant-names Bopfoe, BoAB0, BopBoc, etc., for species of Hyacinthus 
which are names derived from its bulbous root. 
Bucuxraut, in Ger., Lode/, 1576, misprint for Bruchkraut. 
BuputnHatmon.—Bovgbahpoy, of Diocles and Galen, treated 
under Hippocrates, has dropped out of use from modern Greek. 
Retained in modern botany as a name of composite genus 
Buphthalmum L., two Greek plants were so classed by Sibthorp, 
