BUB 



BUB 



fproading near tho furface of the ground. Umleh tsrmiiiat- 

 iiig, the llcm and branches fmjll, whilifli ; peduncles and 

 leaves of the involucre pubefccnt. Miller and La Marck. 

 S(fJ: o\-ate-acnminate, of a bay-brown colour ; convex, llii- 

 ated their whole lengtii witli five elevated lines, and befet 

 with hoary hairs, on one lide ; flat or flightly concave on 

 the other. Native of Greece and Barbary. Its feeds have 

 e plcafanl aromatic talle and fmell, and are eileemed diure- 

 tic, emmenagogue, and c:irniiiiaiive. They are an ingredi- 

 ent ill Theri. ca. 2. B. Gulbamim. Lovage-leaved Biibon, 

 Linn. Hort. Clif. 96. Jacquin. hort. 3- 2i. tab. 36. Berg, 

 cap. 77. Woodville Med. Bot. v. i. tab. 12. Oreofclinum, 

 Afric. Touni. ,519. Anifum Africanum Pluk. Phyt. tab. 

 It. fu:. 2. Morif. hill. 3. p. 297. Ferula Kay. Sup. 2j2. 

 " Lcatletj ovate-wcdge-lhaped, acute, finely ferrated ; um- 

 bels few ; feeds fmooth ; (lem Ihi-ubby, glaucous." An 

 evergreen fiirub from ei^ht to ten feet high. Stem cylindri- 

 cal, jointed, fmooth, covered with a glaucous exudation, 

 which comes off when handled ; towards the bottom, woody 

 and naked ; towards the top, fending off leaves and branches. 

 Z/Jiv/ alternate, bipiniiate, fmooth, of a pale green colour, 

 inclining to glaucous. Umbels terminal from the ftem, and 

 pendant branches ; leaflets of the general involucrum, about 

 tivelve, lanceolate, membranous, and bent downwards ; of 

 the partial one fix, fpreading. Flowers fmall, greenilh yel- 

 low. Seeds fmooth, marked with three elevated lines, 

 without a membranous wing. Native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope : cultivated by Gerard in 1596. It is from this 

 plant, tlial the drug called galbanum is faid by Linnoeus to 

 be obtained. Linmus afferts this on the authority of Plu- 

 kenet, and has been followed by the London, Edinburgh, 

 and other medical colleges. But Herman, who was an in- 

 telligent phyfician, and praftifed many years in the Ea!t In- 

 dies, and at the Cape of Good Hope, is of opinion, that 

 the infpifTated juice of feveral kindred plants is brought to 

 Europe, and vended under the fame name. Galbanum is 

 com.-nonly imported from Turkey and the Eaft Indies, in 

 large, foftidi, duflile, pale-coloured maffcs, wliich by age 

 acquire a bro\vni(h-yeIlow appearance : thefe are intermixed 

 with dilHnCl white grumes or tears, which are accounted 

 the bell part of the mafs ; but the feparate hard tears are 

 externally of a ferruginous colour, and always preferred to 

 the mafs itfelf. It has a ilrong unpleafant fmell, and a 

 warm bittcrifh acrid tafte. Like other gummy refins, it 

 unites with water by trituration into a milky liquor, but 

 does not perfeftly dilFolve in water, vinegar, or wine. Rec- 

 tified fpirit takes up a greater quantity, but not the whole. 

 A mixture of two parts of reflified fpirit, and one of water, 

 di/Tolves all but the impurities. Medically confidered, it 

 may be laid to hold a middle rank between afafxtida and 

 ammoniac : but it is much lefs fetid than the former, and 

 is therefore accounted 1: fs aiitifpafmodic, nor is it fuppofed 

 to have expectorant powers equal to thofe of the latter ; it 

 has the credit, however, of being more ufeful in hyllerical 

 diforders, and of promoting and corredling various fecre- 

 tions and uterine evacuations. It has been applied exter. 

 rally to expedite the fuppuration of inflammatoryandindolent 

 tumours, and as a warm Simulating plafter. It is an ingre- 

 dient ill the pilulx e gummi, the emplaftrum llthargyri cum 

 giimmi, of the London pharm. and in the empl. ad clavos 

 pedum of the Edin. Miller, La Marck, and Woodville. 

 3. B. Uvigalum. Hort. Kew. r. p. 352. " Leaflets lanceo- 

 late, very obtuftly and obfoktely crenate ; feeds fmooth ; 

 ilem (hrubby." A native of the Cape ; introduced into 

 England by Mr. Maflon, 1774. 4. H. gummifenim. Linn. 

 Sp-C. Ferula Africana galbanifera folio myrrhidis Comm. 

 Lort. 2. p. 115. t. jS, " Leaflets galhed, acuminate; the 



lower ones broader ; feeds fmooth ; ftem (hrubby," nearly 

 allied to B. galbanum. A native of the Cape, cultivated by- 

 Miller in 1731. 5- B. ri^iJ'ws. Linn. Hort. Clif. 95. (Fe- 

 rula durior Bocc. muf. 1. p. S4. t. 76. Bar. rar. t. 77). 

 •' Leaflets linear." A low perennial plant with the habit 

 of a fmall ferula. Stem about a foot and a h;l;" high, cylin- 

 drical, Ibiated, but little branched. Lo-wer haves large, 

 tripiniiate ; leaflets linear, Itiff, andfliort. F/ozuers ycUow, 

 in loofe umbels. A native of Sicily. 



I'rcp.ig.iu-m and Cu'.liire. — B. vtacedonicnm is propagated 

 by feeds, Town in light fandy earth, either early in the autumn, 

 or in April : if the feafon prove hot and dry, the ground 

 fliould be fhaded in the middle of the day, and frequently 

 watered. In the beginning of Odober, the plants (lioiild 

 be tranfpla:!ted into a warm dry border, and a few of them 

 put into pots to be (hcltered under a frame, in cafe the win- 

 ter be fevere. The feeds of gaibanum and guinmiferum 

 fliould be fown in pots filled with liglit loamy earth, as foon 

 as they arrive. If it be in autumn, they fliould be kept 

 during the winter in a bed of tanners' bark, where the heat 

 is gone. In fpring, the plants will come up, and in April, 

 fliould be carefully tranfphnted into frcfii pots filled with 

 the fame kind of earth. After having remained in the bark 

 till they have taken root, they fliould be gradually enured 

 to the open air, and may be placed in June with other ex- 

 otic plants in a fheltered fituation. In winter, they niuft 

 be kept in a green-houfe, where they fliould have but little 

 water. Miller's Didl. 



BuBON, in /Indent Geography, a town of Afia Minor, in 

 Caballia, over agaiull Caria. This city, according to Pliny, 

 (1. v. c. 27.) was fituatcd in the vicinity of Great Cibyra, 

 and had, with this and two other cities, formed a league, 

 offenfive and defenfive, called the "league of the four cities." 

 When the pvxtor Murena, in the year of Rome 670, dif- 

 membeied the Hate of Cibyra, the town of Bubon was an- 

 nexed to I>ycia. According to Steph. Byz, this town, 

 and alfo that of " Balbufu," derived their names from the 

 pirates who founded them. 



BUBONIUM,in Bclany, Tabern. See Inula Salicina. 



BUBONIUS, Lapis, in Natural Hiflory, a figured ftone, 

 in fliape refenibling an owl's head, of a flinty fubllance, black 

 within and cineritious without ; it xvas thus denominated by 

 Dr. Plott, having not before been named by naturalifls. 

 Plott's Oxford, ch.v. J. 45. 



BUBONOCELE, in Surgery, is a tumour in the groin, 

 formed by the protrufion of the intefl;i;ies, or omentum, 

 through the openings defigned for the pafTage of the fperma- 

 tic cord, in the male, and the round ligament in the female. 



It appears firfl; in the groin, at an aperture, fituatcd mid- 

 way between the fymphyfis pubis and fuperior fpinoiis pro- 

 cefs of the ilium, and which may be properly called the 

 fuperior abdominal ring, and then pafling obliquely down- 

 wards and inwards, it emerges at the inferior abdominal 

 ring in the tendon of the external oblique mufcle, and 

 appears within the fcrotum. Whilft placed in the groin, 

 furgeons ufually call it the inguinr.l hernia, and when it has 

 extended into the fcrotum, it is termed fcrotal hernia. The 

 protruded parts are contained in a fac formed by the perito- 

 nxum ; and whilft the tumour remains in the groin, it is 

 placed under the tendon of the external oblique mufcle ; but 

 when it defcends into the fcrotum, it is covered, both by a 

 fafcia given ofi" by the external oblique mufcle, and by the 

 cremafter. The fpermatic cord ufually pafles behind the 

 fac, through its whole courfe, but it has been found in fome 

 inftances divided by it, and in others, pafling before the tu- 

 mour. The epigaltric artery is placed near the mouth of the 

 fac, fometimes on the inner, but moft frequently on its 

 8 outer 



