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of Weimar, fituated on the LofTe, and carrying on a great 

 trade in cattle with Poland and Hungary ; 9 miles N. of 



Weimar. 



BUTUA, BunOA, in indent Geography, a town of 

 Illyria, named Buthoehy Stcjih. Byz,and Butua by Ptolemv. 

 See BuDoA. 



BUTUNTUM, or Bytontum.s town of Italy, in that 

 part of Apulia called Peucetia, fouth-eail of Bavium, on the 

 Trajan way. 



BUTUS, in Entomology, a fpecies of Sphinx [Zygaena, 

 Fabr.), the wings of which arc greenifli aiid rtiiniiig, at the 

 tips darker ; abdomen fulvous. Fabricius. Inhabits South 

 America. 



BuTus, Sphinx butus of Cramer, is the fpecies defcribed 

 by Fabricius under the name of Gnoma, which fee. 



Butus, or Buns, in ylndent Geography, a town of Lower 

 Egypt, feated on the well of that branch of the Nile an- 

 ciently called Ucrmopolitiais, and which running near to 

 Sebennytus, now called Samanoud, difcharges itfell into the 

 lake of Bourlos or Bereios. It was famous for au oracle of 

 I^atoua, called Butis, and in fome rclpecls the fame with Ifis, 

 which was confulted by perfons that repaired to it from all 

 parts of Egypt. The temple of this divinity was fpacious 

 and magnificent ; furrounded by a portico 50 feet high, 

 which was fupported by marble columns, and tlie fanftuary 

 was formed out of an enormous mafs of granite, 60 feet fquare 

 and 6 thick, and weighing 15,000,000 pounds. It was 

 hewn in a quarry in the id: of Phile, near the cataracts, and 

 conveyed on rafts, through a diitance of 20J leagues, to the 

 place where it was dcpolitcd. Butus was alfo decorated with 

 two temples in honour of Apollo and Diana. Herodotus, 

 l.xi. c. 155. Strabo, 1. 17. vo!. ii. p. S02. 



BUTZBACH in Geography, a town of Germany, in 

 the circle of the Upper Rhine, and principality of Upper 

 HelTe, fituate in a marfhy, but fertile, plain ; 7 miles S.S.W. 

 of Gieffen. 



BU TZOW, a town of Germany, in the circle of Lower 

 Saxony, and principahty of Schwerin ; 24 miles N. E. of 

 Schwerin. 



BUUDER, or BuDENSTADE, a trading place and fifliing 

 port of Iceland. 



BUVETTE, or Beuvette, in the French Laius, an 

 eftablilhed place in every court, where the lawyers and coun- 

 fellors may retiie, warm themfelves, and take a glafs of wine 

 by way of lefrcfhment, at the king's charge. 



There is one for each court of parliament, but thefe are 

 only for perfons belonging to that body ; there are others 

 in the pa/iiis whither other perfons alfo refort. 



BUXALOONS, in Geography, an Indian town of Ame- 

 rica, on the north- weft bank of Alleghany river; nearly 2^ 

 miles from Fort Franklin, at its mouth. 



BUXBAUM, John Christian, in Biography, appWed 

 himfelf folely to the ftudy of botany, in which lie acquired 

 confiderable celebrity. His fii 11 work, " Enumeratio Plan- 

 tarum in agro Halenfi, locifque vicinis naiccntium," was 

 publilhedin 1721 at Halle in Saxony, near which place he ap- 

 pears to have been born. Haller commends this catalogue, 

 which contains many of the minuter plants, moffes, and fun- 

 gufes, fome of which were then firft noticed. This procured 

 him fo much credit, that he was fent for to Ruffia and made 

 member of the academy at Peterfburg. He then went to 

 Conftantinople, and viiited feveral of the illands in the Archi- 

 pelago, attentively examining all the varieties of plants, found 

 in thofe rich countries. As the fruit of thefe travels, he 

 publithed, in 1728, 4to. " Centuria prima Plantarum circa 

 Byzantium et in Oriente obfervatarum. Petrop." in which 

 he briefly defcribed fome new and many very rare plants. 



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He died the following year, but had previoufly prepared a 

 fecond, third, and fourth centuries, which were publinied in 

 1729. 1733. anJ 1740- A fifth century, with an appendix, 

 was added. Beiides thefe, he was author of feveral commu- 

 nications on the fubjedl ot botany, which were pubjifhcd in 

 the firft, fecond, third, and fourth volumes of the Commen- 

 tanes of the Imperial Academy at Pcterftjurir. Hall. Bib. 

 Bot. " 



BUXBAUlML^, in Br^ianv (from Buxbaum, a German 

 botanift, who travelled in RulTia, and publiHicd defcriptions 

 of new plants). Linn. gen. 56^. Sclireb. iC'ig. JufTieu 12. 

 La Marck Enc. Clafs and order, Cryptogamia mufci. Nat. 

 Old. 71/«/; Linn, and Juff. 



Gen. Ch. Cipf. ovate, oblique, gibbous, on one fide. 

 Perijlomf double ; outer one of fixteen teeth truncate ; inner 

 membranaceous, plaited. 



Species, 1. B. aphylla. " Capfule on a fruit ftalk ; leaves 

 none." Linn. Amacn. ■;. tab. i.Dai. Mufc. tab, 68, 1. Flor 

 Dan. 44. La Marck. 111. PI. 872. Fruit JUl fwelling at 

 the bale into a black, funnwhat villous, fmall bulb; half an 

 inch long, dark, red, glofty, ered. CnpfuU of an uniform 

 pale colour, ovate, gibbous, about the fizeof acommon pea. 

 'i he only mofs known without leaves. Turner. Spic. Mufc. 

 Hib. This curious plant was firft difcovercd by Buxbaum 

 on the baiiks of the Volga, near Aftracan ; afterwards by 

 Monti m Italy, and CelCus fen. in Sweden, both of whom fent 

 fpecimensto Dillcnius; and by Haller in Switzeriand.and by 

 others in diflerent parts of Europe. It has lately been found 

 near the lake of Killarney in Ireland. 2. ^.foliofu (B. feffihs 

 Scmid.Hed. Phafcum Flor. dan. t. 249. upper fig. Phafcum 

 montanum Hud. Maximum Light. Sphagnum acaulum 

 maximum Dill. tab. 32. f. 13.) "Stem none; capfule 

 nearfy feffile, leaves linear-lanceolate." Dr. Smith. La 

 Marck Illuft. PI. 872. f. 2. Eng, Bot. 329. Slen, very fliort, 

 or rather none. Leaves numerous, lanceolate, flat, keeled, 

 acuminate ; inner ones with a briftly tooth on each fide 

 towards the fummit. C.^/yH/f folitary, neariy feffile, the fize 

 of a grain of wheat, ovate oblique, fmooth green ; calyptra 

 awl-lhaped, red ; lid conic, ftriated ; exterior fringe obfo- 

 lete ; interior membranaceous, white, plaited, clofed. 

 Dr. Smith. A native of England, and other parts of Eu^ 

 rope. 



BUXE Fiord, in Geography, a bay on the weft coaft of 

 Weft Greenland. N. lat. 64" 15'. W. long. 49° 40'. 



BUXENTUM, now Poli-cajlro, in jincient Ccographyi 

 a town of Italy, in the eaftern part of Lucania, called by 

 the Greeks Pyxus. It was founded by Micythus, a prince 

 of Meftana in Sicily, and afterwards deferted. It was co- 

 lonized by the Romans. Strabo, Livy. According to 

 Strabo (1.6. vol.i. p. 253.) Pyxus was the name of a pro- 

 montory, port, and river. 



BUXI, in Entomology, a fpeciesof Tipula (Tipula fava 

 of Schrank). The colour is yellow : head and thorax 

 black ; wiigs brown and incumbent. A native of Europe. 

 Gmel. &c. *^ 



Buxi,a fpecies of Chermes, having fetaceous antenna, 

 and yellowifh brown wings, Pfylla ■viriilis, &c. Geoffroy. 



BUXTEHUDE, Dietrich, in Biography, fon of John 

 Buxtehude, organift at St. Olaus at Elfineur, was a difciple 

 of John Thiel, and organift of the church of St. Mary in 



Lubec. Matthefon, in his Jaollbomineiic Cnpellmcifter, 



p. 130. celebrates him as a famous organift and compofer, 

 and fpeaks of fix fuitcs of lelfons for the harpfichord of 

 his compofition, in which the motion of the planets is repre- 

 fented or delineated. With this is printed a choral compo- 

 fition to German words, being a lamentation on the death of 

 his father. In 1 69G he publlfticd two fets of foiiatas a vio/ino, 



viola 



