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few Ilirubby or arboreous. Leaves alternate, often harfli 

 or rough. 



Seft. I. Fruit pulpy. Stem flirubby or arboreous. 

 Patagonula, Cordia, Ehretia, Menats, Varroma, and Tour- 

 nefnrt'ia. 



Se£l. 2. Fruit of one or tVJo capfules. 



Hyilrophyllum, Phacelia of Jullieu, EUifta, Dichondra, 

 Mejferjchmidia, and Cerinthe. Dichondka ( fee that article ) 

 is erroncoufly placed here. 



Seft. 3. Fruit of four naked feeds. Throat of the corolla 

 naked. Plants inoflly herbaceous and rough. 



Coldenia, Heliotropium, Echium, Lithofpermum, Pulmonaria, 

 and Onofma. 



Se£t. i).. Fruit of four naked feeds. Throat of the corolla 

 furnifhed ivith five fcales , hollow like fpurs, Jlightly projeSing 

 out of the corolla, at the bafe of its fegments, gaping above. 

 Herbs generaUy with rough leaves. 



Symphytum, Lycopjis, Myofotis, Anchufa, Borago, Afpe- 

 rugo, and Cynoglojfum. 



Seft. 5. Genera allied to the Borragineie. 

 Nolana, Siphonanthus, and Falkia. 



BORRERA, is dedicated by profeflbr Acharius, 

 to the honour of Mr. William Borrer, F.L.S., one of 

 the mod; eminent Britifh cryptogamifts, whofe ftudies 

 have been particularly direfted to the Lichen tribe, and 

 who is alfo critically verfed, as vcell as Angularly accu- 

 rate, in every department of Britilh botany. — Achar. Li- 

 chenogr. 93. t. 9. f. 3 — 9. Syn. 220. Sm. Prodr. Fl. 

 Grsec. Sibth. v. 2. 313. — Clafs and order, Cryptogamia 

 Algiz. Nat. Ord. Lichenes. 



EfT. Ch. Shields ftalked, coloured, with an elevated, 

 inflexed border, of the fubftance of the leafy, cartilaginous, 

 elevated, linear frond. 



This genus is very natural in habit, comprifing the well- 

 known Lichen ciliaris of Linnxus and its allies. Acharius 

 defines feventeen fpecies, among which feveral are very 

 elegant, fuch as B. Trulla from Peru, figured in Ach. 

 Meth. t. 4. f. 6; leucomela, (fee Engl. Bot. t. 2548,) and 

 chryfophthalma, t. 1088. 



We have ventured in Prodr. Fl. Graec. to remove hither 

 the E-vernia prunajlri, Ach. Syn. 245, Lichen prunajlri of 

 LinnEus ; and feel much inclined to affociate the whole of 

 that genus with Borrera, there being only two fpecies 

 befides, which are Lichen divaricatus and vulpinus of Linnxus. 

 We really cannot perceive any diftinftive charafter to keep 

 Eveniia feparate. 



BORROWSTONNESS. Add— The parilh contains 

 352 houfes, and 2704 inhabitants ; 1102 being males, and 

 1602 females. - 



BORYA, in Botany, a New Holland genus, thus named 

 by M. Labillardiere, in honour of the diftinguifhed bota- 

 nical traveller, M. Bory de St. Vincent. This genus was 

 firft made public by its author in 1 804. A year or two 

 afterwards, profeflbr Willdenow published a different 

 Borya, in his Sp. PI. v. 4.- 711. The former is adopted, 

 in his Prodromus, by Mr. Brown, who, neverthelefs, has 

 admitted the latter into Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 5. 365. This 

 can only have arifen from the profeffed plan of the Hort. 

 Kew. being in general to copy Willdenow, and we truft 

 Mr. Brown no more intended to give his fanftion to this 

 enor, than to the adoption of Araucaria, to the pre- 

 judice of the rightful Doivibeya. ■(See thofe articles.) 

 However that may be, we feel it incumbent on us to 

 admit the original Borya, againft which no valid objeftion 

 can be raifed, having already endeavoured to find a fuitable 

 name (fee Bigelovia) for the other. — Labill. Nov. Holl. 

 v. I. 81. Brown Prodr. No^-. Holl. v. i. 286.— Clafs 



and order, Hexandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. AfphodAeu, 

 Brown. 



Efl". Ch. Spatha of two unequal, fhcathing, permanent 

 valves. Corolla of one petal, funnel-fliaped, withering ; 

 limb in fix deep equal fegnicuts. Stamens inferted into 

 its contraftcd throat. Style thre-iid-fhapcd. Stigma ob- 

 tufe. Capfule fupcrior, of three cells, and three valves, 

 with central partitions. Seeds feveral. 



Mr. Brown conceives the prefent genus to be not very 

 nearly related to any, except perhaps Xanthorrhosa, 

 (fee that article,) and his own Johnfonia. In habit it 

 approaches fome of the Juncec, but differs in the black 

 cruilaceous integument of the feed, and in the foft, flefhv, 

 fomewhat oily, albumen. 



It confifts of perennial herbs, of a harfh dry texture. 

 Roots compofed of long, tough, fomewhat ftiining fibre;;. 

 Stems either fimplo, or divided and creeping, clothed with 

 vei-y crowded, acerofe, pointed leaves; dilated and half- 

 (heathing at their bafe. Floiverflalks folitary, terminal, 

 fimple. Head nearly globular, encompafTed with a few 

 fhort leafy braHeas. Scales of the calyx fmooth, membra- 

 nous, the outer one (heathing the inner, which is narrower, 

 and embraces the tube of the corolla. 



1. B. nitida. Shining Borya. Labill. Nov. Holl. v. i. 

 81. t. 107. Br. n. I. — Stem much branched, taking root 

 below, with fimple poliflied fibres. Flower-ftalks fliorter 

 than the afcending branches. Head ovate. — Gathered by 

 both the diftinguilhed botanifts above cited, on the fouth 

 coafts of New Holland, and the adjacent ifiands, in fandy 

 ground. The plant is about a fpan high, and, except the 

 want of downy radicles, feems calculated to confine the 

 blowing fands of its dreary country, like our Carex are- 

 naria, Elymus arenarius, &c. 



2. B. fphierocephala. Round-headed Borya. Br. n. 2. 

 — " Stems fimple, nearly creft, (horter tWn the flower- 

 ftalks. Head globofe." — Gathered by Mr. Brown, in 

 the fame neighbourhood. 



BOS, in Zoology, 1. 13, after ferus, infert — See 

 Urus. 



BOSCAWEN, 1.4, r. 1829. 



BOSSIiEA, in Botany, a fine papilionaceous genus, con- 

 fecrated by Ventenat, to the memory of his countryman 

 M. Boiflieu-Lamartiuiere, who accompanied La Peroufe in 

 his voyage round the world, the account of which, pub- 

 lifhed at Paris, atteils the merit of this unfortunate botaniil, 

 — Venten. Jard. de Cels 7. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 972. Sm. 

 Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 9. 302. Brown in Ait. Hort. Kew. 

 v. 4. 266. — Clafs and order, Diadelphia Decandria. Nat. 

 Ord. Papilionacea, Linn. Leguminofis, Jufl". 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, coriaceous, 

 bell-fhaped, two-lipped ; upper lip largeft, in two rounded, 

 obtufe fegments ; lower in three deep, lanceolate, equal 

 fegments. Cor. papilionaceous. Standard hcart-fhaped, 

 afcending, twice as long as the upper lip of the calyx, with 

 a linear, convex claw. Wings half the length of the ftnnd- 

 ard, obovate, each with a tooth at one fide. Keel the len<i-th 

 of the wings, of two hatcliet-fhaped, concave, converging 

 petals, each with a lateral tooth, and a prominence on the 

 difl<, near the bafe. Stam. Filaments ten, united about half 

 way into one fet, feparate only along the upper edo-e ; 

 anthers uniform, fimple, roundilh. P'fl. Germen ilalked, 

 linear, compreffed ; ftyle recurved ; ftigma fimple. Peric. 

 Legume ftalked, oblong, compreffed, nearly flat ; its valves 

 rigid, thickened at each margin ; fometimes interaally 

 fpongy, and of many cells. Seeds feveral, oval, comprtffed, 

 ftalked, each with a tumid appendage, 



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