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July. Purjh. That author obfervcs, " this is the largeft 

 of the fpecies here defcribed. It is known by the uanie of 

 Rattle-fnake Fern, probably from growing near the places 

 where thofe venomous animals arc generally found." Our 

 fpecimens, one of which was gathered by Clayton, the other 

 by Kalm, are fcarcely fo large as the laft-defcribed, from 

 vhich they differ chiefly in having rather lefs compound 

 hav:s. The inflorefcence is fomewhat hairy, as in that. 

 WiUdenow, negligently as it fecms, changed the termination 

 nf the fpecific name to virgln'tcum, which could only caufe 

 trouble, and we have therefore redored the original. 



10. B. gracile. Slender Moonwort. Purfli n. 5. Frond 

 ternate, doubly pirnatifid, fmooth ; fegments cut, acute. 

 Spikes llender, pinnate, ereft. — In fhady fertile woods of 

 Virginia, in June. This fpecies approaches nearly, at firft 

 fight, to the preceding, but is much fmaller and more flender, 

 belldes the other dillinftiono. Purjh. We have from Dr. 

 Muhlenberg what anfwers to the above account, but fhould 

 f;arcely have thought it diftindt. The inflorefcence indeed is 



' .nooth, and fimply pinnate, but this correfponds with the 

 inifJler fize of evo-ry part. 



11. B. cicutarium. Hemlock Moonwort. Sw. n. 4. 

 Willd. n. 9. (Ofmunda cicutaria ; Lam. Dift. v. 4. 650. 

 O. afphodeli radice ; Plum. Fil. 136. t. 159. Fetiv. Fil. 

 n, 168. t. 9. f. 2.) — Frond triply pinnate; leaflets pinnati- 

 fid ; terminal ones pointed. Fruitllalk from near the bafe 

 of the footftalk. — Gathered by Pluniier in the forefts of 

 Hifpaniola. The root confifts of oblong tapering fiefhy 

 knobs. Frond much larger than either of the three laft, 

 and eflentially different in the nearly radical infertion of the 



fruitjlalk. The fp'ike is twice pinnate. Plumier records, 

 that the Indians give the name ot Serpent-herb to this, and 

 to the Anemia adiantifol'ia, thinking them ufeful applications 

 for the bite of a ferpent. This may account for the appel- 

 lation of Rattle-fnake Fern given to n. 9. 



12. B. z^ylanicum. Great Ceylon Moonwort. Sw. n. 7. 

 Willd. n. 10. (Ofmunda zeylanica ; Linn. Sp. PI. 15 19. 

 O. n. 373; Linn. Zeyl. 178. OphioglofTum laciniatum; 

 Rumph. Amboin. v. 6. 153. t. 68. f. 3.) — Frond ternate; 

 leaflets ternate or fomewhat pinnate, lanceolate, pointed, 

 finely crenate. Spike cylindrical, denfe ; fpikelets capitate. 

 — Native of Ceylon and Amboyna, on the fides of hiUs, in 

 the borders of woods and thickets. The root is long and 

 creeping, very deep in the ground, with numerous long 

 fibres. Fronds a foot and a half or two feet high, naked, 

 except at the very top of the Jlalk, from whence pro- 

 ceed three flightly-ftalked branches, each of two, three, or 

 more, equal, uniform fmooth leaflets, five or fix inches long, 

 and one broad, partly decurrent, light green, with many 

 fine tranfverfe veins. From the fame point fprings a fruit- 

 tlalk, with a denfe cylindrical compound fpite, rifing rather 

 above the leaflets, the cap/ules. about three together, capitate, 

 at the end of each fliort partial branch. 



BOTRYOLITE. See Mineralogy, Addenda. 



BOTRYTIiJ, in Botany, fo called from Pa\vc, a bunch of 

 grapes, in allufion to the clufters of little globular feeds, or 

 feed-veflels. — Mich. Nov. Gen. 212. t. 91. Perf. Difp. 

 Meth. 40. Syn. Fung. 690 — Clafs znA ocder, Cryptogamia 

 Fungi. Nat. Ord. Fungi. 



EfT. Ch. Ereft, capillary, forked. Seeds m termmal 

 aggregate globules. 



I. '&. c'lnercd. Afli-coloured Clufler-mould. Perf. n. I. 

 Difp. Meth. 40. t. 3. f. 9, 10 — Alb-coloured, branching, 

 in broad denfe patches. — On rotten gourds, pumpkins, and 

 cabbage-ilalks, refembhng a common Mucor, till examined 

 with a magnifier. The globules are difpofed in irregular 

 oblong malles, and difcharge T^owdety feeds. 



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2. B.ramofa. Crofs-headed Clufter-moufd. Perf. n. 2. (B. 

 ramofa cinerea, feminibus rotundis ; Mich. n. 3. f. 2. ) B. alba. 

 (B. non ramofa alba, feminibus rotundis; Mich. n. 2. f. 3.) 

 — Afh-coloured, branching, with four-rayed fpikes. — Very 

 common in all kinds of corrupting fubflances. Micheli. 

 The mm\\\.e flcms are more or lefs branched and forked, each 

 branch terminating in a crofs, compofed of four denfe ovate 

 maffes oi globrd:s, on fhort horizontal ftalks. 



$. B.Jjrplcx. Simple Clufter-mould. Perf. n. 3. (B. 

 comata grifea, caule fimpiici crafTiore, feminibus rotundis ; 

 Mich. n. I. f. I.) — Grey, fimple. Spikes radiating. — On 

 hair-rotten wood, or wheat-ftraw, in winter, not unfrequent 

 about Florence. Micheli. Each plant confifts of a fimple, 

 rather firm, flem, a line or two in height, crowned with 

 from three to fix ovate maffes o( globules, oh horizontal radi- 

 ating ftalks. 



4. B.Jpicala. Oblong-fpikcd Clufter-mould. Perf. n. 4. 

 (B. fpicata grifea, feminibus rotundis ; Mich. n. 4. f. 4.) — 

 Grey, much branched. Spikes ovate-oblong, ftalked, fcat- 

 tered, ereft. — Found in September on the (hady walks of 

 the botanic garden at Florence. Micheli. The flemt are 

 repeatedly and irregularly branched, each branch terminating 

 in a little oblong j^ii? of globules. 



5. B. difufa. Great White Clufter-mould. Albert. 

 and Schwein. Fung. Nifl<. 362. — White, with cxtenfive dif- 

 fufe branches, and terminal clufters, of about four globules 



each Found once only on half-rotten ftalks of potatoes in 



November, compofing denfe, white, cottony, fugacious 

 malfes, two inches or more in diameter. The globules dif- 

 charge abundance of powdery feeds like fmoke. 



BOTTOMRY, col. 4, 1. 23, for courfe r. courts. 



BOVISTA, in Botany, a name of barbarous origin, 

 being formed by Dillenius from the German Bq/ljl. It is 

 adopted by Perfoon for a genus feparatcd from Lyco- 

 PERDON. (See that article.) — Perf. Difp. Meth. 6. Syn. 

 Fung. 136.— Clafs and order, Cryptogamia Fungi. Nat. 

 Ord. Fungi. 



Eft". Ch. Cafe fmooth, fefllle, burfting irregularly at 

 the top ; its white external coat (or wrapper ?) at length 

 feparating in fragments. ( Powder or feed brownifti-purple. ) 

 Perfoon. 



The author defines four fpecies. 



1 . B. nigrefcens, which is Lycoperdon globofum. Bolt. Fung. 

 t. 118. With. V. 4. 382, and L. arrhizon of Batfch, t. 29. 



2. B. plumbea, figured in Sowerby's Fungi, t. 331, as 

 L. Bovifla, and judged by that author to be but a variety 

 of the former. 



3. B. pufilla, " Batfch, t. 41. f. 228 ;" akin to the 

 firft, but only three lines in diameter. 



4. B. furfuracea, figured by Micheli, Nov. Gen. t. 97. 

 f. 6, who fays it is common on heaths, and fold with other 

 fungi of this tribe, in the market, at Florence. Perfoon is 

 doubtful of the genus of this laft, and we ftiould fufpeft it 

 to belong poffibly to Tuber. 



Bovija differs from Lycoperdon in not being elongated at 

 the bafe into a fort of ftalk ; but furtly they might, without 

 violence to nature, be united, efpecially as the fpecies of 

 the prefent genus are fo few and fo difputable. 



BOURBON, in Kentucky, 1. 2, r. 11,869; I. 3, r. 

 2307. 



BOURN, col. 2, 1.21, r. In iSu, the parifh of 

 Bourn contained 308 houfes, and 1591 perfons ; 779 being 

 males, and 812 females. r n 1. 1 • 



BOURSIPPA, in Geography, a town of Babylonia, 

 according to Strabo ; to which Alexander retired when 

 warned by the Chaldzans not to enter Babylon. This is 

 fuppofed ts> t?e the prefent village of fipuj-la, two leagues 



