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BULBINE, Plinii, in Botar.y. See Hvacinthus Co- 



MOSUS. 



BuLBiNE, Hort. Clif. See Anthericvm frutescess 

 and AuoiDEs. 



BuLBiNE, Gxrtner. See Crisum asiaticum. Gasrt- 

 ncr'scrlnum is the agapanthusoi" L'Herttitr, Schrcber, a::d 

 this diftionary. 



BULBOCASTANUM, C. Bauh. Tournefort. See 



BVNIUM. 



BuLBocASTANfM, bulbofa. C. Bauh. See Ck.'ero- 



rHYLLUM BULBOSUM. 



BULBO-CAVERNOSI, in Anatomy. See Accele- 



RATORES URIN/E. 



BULBOCODIUM, in Bntany, (from EoX^r; a bulb, and 

 K J.-V wool.) Linn. gen. 407. Reich. 440. Schreb. 55J. 

 Willd.624. Juffieu /;4. C\ik?ir\&oy6er,h:xandriamonogyma. 

 Nat. ord. Spalhacii Linn. NardJi]MK. 



Gen. char. Cal. none. Cor. li.K-petalkd, funnel-fhaped ; 

 claws very long, linear ; throat connefting the petals ; 

 petals l.inceohte, concave. Stam. filaments fix, awl-(haped, 

 infcrted on the claws of the petah ; anthers incumbent. 

 Pi/?, germ ovate, awl-fhaped, obtufcly three cornered, fupe- 

 rior; llyle thread-lhaped, the length of the ilamens; lligmas 

 three, oblong, ereft, channelled. Perk, capfule triangular, 

 acuminate, angles obfcure, three-celled ; feeds nume- 

 rous. 



Ohf. It has fomctimes only four ftamens and four 

 petals. 



Spec. B. vernum. La Marck, Uhift. PI. ijo. (Colchicum 

 vernum. Cluf. Park. Ger. emend. Ray.) Rorj bulbous. 

 Lea-Ties three, lanceolate, enveloped in their lower part by a 

 thin membranous (heath. Flower little, if at all longer 

 than the leaves, white at firft, but afterwards acquiring dif- 

 ferent (hades of purple, rifrng almoft immediately from the 

 root ; borders of the petals arrow-lhaped, and their narrow 

 acuminate fegments fo fitted to each other, and fo clofcly 

 conneAed, as to give the whole the appearance of a mono- 

 petalous corolla like that of colchicum. Stamens (liorter 

 than the petals. It flowers early in the fpring, and has the 

 general appearance of the crocus, from which it differs in 

 the number of its ilamens, as it does from colchicum in hav- 

 ing only one llyle. Lam. Encyc. and fig. A native of 

 mountainous fituations in Spain, the fouth of France, and 

 Ruffia. It appears to have been cultivated in England by 

 Parkinfon, fo early as 1629, but is now become very rare 

 in our gardens, its bulbs being tender, and not much inclin- 

 ed to increafe. It may be propagated by offsets like other 

 bulbous rooted plants, removed foon after the leaves decay, 

 but this (hould not be done more than once every three 

 years. It may alfo be produced from feed fown at the lat- 

 ter end of September, or any part of Oiflober, in pots filled 

 with freih loamy earth, where they fhould remain, only va- 

 rying the fituation according to the feafon : till the next 

 fummer but one, when as foon as their leaves are de- 

 cayed, the roots (hould be taken up, and planted in the bor- 

 ders of the flower garden. Miller. 



Bi'LBocoDiuM, J. Bauh. hid. See Narcissus pseudo- 

 Narcissus and N. minor. 



BuLBOcoDiuM, Rai. ang. See Anthericum seroti- 



HUM. 



BuLBOcODiUM, gracum, Tourn. See Anthericvm 

 cr«cum. 



Bdlbocodium, croeifoUum, To>irn. Mil. Icon. See 



IlIA BCLBOCODIUM. 



BULBOUS roots, in Gardening, are fuch roots as are 

 compofcd of bulbs, and which differ effentially from the tu- 



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herous roots, which confift of an entire folid f!e(hy fubdance. 

 Under this head are comprehended fomc efcnlent plants, 

 fuch as garlick, onions, leaks, fhallots, S:c. and a numerous 

 train of flowerv plants, moftly herbaceous perennials, pro- 

 ducing beautiful flowers, many of them being hardy enough 

 to fucceed in beds and borders in the open ground, a/id 

 others in the (love or greenhoufe. The principal of the 

 flowery ttibe belong to the following genera : the amaryliis, 

 including the Guerniey lily, bella-donna lily, Jacobea lily, 

 &c. ; nare'ifus, or daffodil, including jonquils, hyacinths, 

 tulip, fritularia, and crown imperial I'llium, or common 

 lily, including maitagons ; orniihogalum, or ftar of Beth- 

 lehem ; galanthus, or the fnow-drop ; leucojum, or great 

 fnow-drop ; fc'illa, or fea onion ; eolckicum, or meadow faf- 

 fron ; alhuca, or baftard ftar of Bethlehem ; mufcaria, or 

 mulk and grape hyacinth ; Iris, the bulbous and perfian ; 

 haevianthus, or blood flower; allium, or moly; crocus, in- 

 cluding fpring and autumn kinds ; biilhocodium, and pancra- 

 tium, or fea daffodil. The different fpecics and varieties 

 of which are feen under their refpeftive genera. 



Bulbous roots may in fait be faid to be annual or bien- 

 nial, as the fame individual root lalls for a certain time only, 

 in fome, not more than a year after having attained a flower- 

 ing lla'ik ; in others, longer, as previous to their diffo!ution, 

 they afford from their fiSes a fupply of fuckers or offsets to 

 perpetuate the refpcclive kinds, fo that at the end of many 

 years, what is (lill often conlidered as the fame individual 

 root, is in reality another. All bulbous rooted plants re- 

 new their leaves and flov/er ftems annually ; and their prin- 

 cipal feafons for flowering are at different tim.cs during the 

 fpring and fummer months, fome producing their flowers at 

 one time, and their leaves at another, as in fome fpccies of 

 amarvllis and colchicum ; others produce their flowers and 

 leaves together, as in the hyacinth, tulip, narciffcis ; and 

 the leaves and flower ftems of all the forts perifli annually at 

 a certain period after flowering, after which time, the root 

 becomes in a ftatc of maturity in refpeft to its growth for a 

 few wet- ks, in which new fibres are prepared for the future 

 plant. This is the proper time to remove the roots, either 

 to ftparate the offsets for propagation for plantiiig the roots 

 in frelh prepared earth, or for removing thtm to any other 

 part of the garden or other ground. And, likewile, ior 

 preferving the bulbs out of ground for autumn and fpnng 

 planting, when the beds or borders can be more conve- 

 niently prepared for their reception ; for moft forts taken 

 up at this period mnv be kept out of ground feveral months ; 

 or if occafion require, fome forts admit of being kept out 

 of the ground from the time of the flowers and leaves de- 

 caying, until the following fpring, as is often praftifed 

 when intended tor fpring planting, to obtain a longer fuc- 

 ceflion of blooms by fucceeding the autumn plantation. 



Bulbous roots m.ay, however, remain fevcra! years iipre- 

 moved, and when greatly increafed by offsets be onlv taken 

 up at the proper period to ftparate the increafed progeny, 

 and replanted again ss may be receffary. It is, however, 

 particularly nectffary to take up all the choice kinds of bul- 

 bous roots annually to feparate the offsets for increafe, as 

 well cs to prepare the earth of the beds and borders afrefli, 

 to promote the beauty and merit of the fucceeding year's 

 bloom, efpecially for the curious tulips, hyaci:iths, narcif- 

 fuffes, &c. The more inferior forts of bulbous loots (houid 

 alfo be removed every other, or as often as their offsets are 

 confiderably increafed in number, which, if permitted to re- 

 main fo long as to increafe into large bui ches, cramp each 

 other in growth, and produce fmall ill uouriflied flowers of 

 little beauty. 



All the bulbous roots which have been taken up at the 



above 



