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BOTTLE DE NEIGE. (Fr.) Viburnum 

 Opulus, with double flowers. 



BOULEAU COMMUN. (Fr.) Betula 

 alba. — , ODORANT. Betula. lenta. 



BOT7LETTE AZURE'E. (Fr.) Echinops 

 Ritro. 



BOUNCING BET. An American name 

 for Saponaria officinalis. 



BOUQUET PAKPAIT. (Fr.) Dianthus 

 barbatus, the common Sweetwilliam. 



BOURBOXXAISE. (Fr.) Lychnis Vis- 

 caria. 



BOURDE v NE, or BOURGE v XE. (Fr.) 

 Rhamnus Frangula. 



BOURGOGNE. (Pr.) Eedysarum Ono- 

 brychis. 



BOURRACHE. (Fr.) Borago officinalis. 

 — , PETITE. Cynoglossum Omphalodes, or 

 Omphalodes verna. 



BOURREAU DES ARBRES. (Fr.) Ce- 

 lastrus scandens. — DU LIN. Cuscuta 

 epilinum. 



BOURSETTE. (Fr.) Talerianella oli- 

 toria. 



BOUSSINGAULTIA. A name given in 

 honour of a French philosopher, and ap- 

 plied to a genus of Basellacece. The plants 

 have a perianth of six to eight pieces, and 

 two small bracts on the outside ; six sta- 

 mens opposite the sepals ; ovary elliptical ; 

 stvle thread-shaped, thickened at the base ; 

 stigmas three, club-shaped. Fruit round- 

 ish, compressed, membranous, one-seeded, 

 indehiscent, crowned with the persistent 

 stvle ; seed kidney-shaped, smooth, sessile. 

 B. baselloides, a native of the Andes, is an 

 eleeant climbing shrub, with alternate 

 entire fleshy leaves, long clusters of fra- 

 grant whitish flowers, and thick fleshy 

 roots. It is well adapted to grow in a stove, 

 in a hanging basket, or to trail over 

 treliiswork. [M. T. M.] 



BOUTEILLEAU. (Pr.) A kind of olive. 



BOUTIXIANE. (Fr.) A kind of olive. 



BOUTOX D'ARGEXT. (Fr.) Ranunculus 

 •platanifolius, with double flowers; also 

 Achillea Ptarmica. — , D'OR.. Ranunculus 

 acris, with double flowers. — , ROUGE. 

 Cercis canadensis. 



BOUVARDIA. One of the genera of 

 Cinchonacew, named in honour of Dr. Bou- 

 vard, a former superintendent of the 

 Jardin du Roi, at Paris. It isdistinguished 

 by a calyx with a sub-globose tube, a limb 

 of four linear awl-shaped lobes, occasion- 

 ally with little teeth intermediate between 

 the lobes ; a funnel-shaped corolla, naked 

 at the throat, and with a four-parted 

 spreading limb; filaments adherent for 

 some distance to the tube of the corolla ; 

 anthers linear, included ; stigma divided 

 into two lamellae projecting beyond the 

 tube of the corolla; capsule membranous; 

 globose, compressed, with two compart- 



ments opening through the backs of the 

 carpels by two valves ; seeds numerous, 

 winged. The plants are Mexican shrubs, 

 with handsome flowers in terminal co- 

 rymbs. Most of the species have red 

 flowers, but in B. longiflora they are large 

 white and fragrant ; and in B. flava they 

 are yellow. B. triphylla has three leaves 

 with stipules between their petioles, thus 

 presenting an approximation to the struc- 

 ture of the Galiaceo3 ovStellatw. [M. T. M.J 



BOVA. A kind of vanilla. 



BOVISTA. The small smooth nearly 

 globose Puffballs which are so common in 

 our fields and in large exposed pastures, 

 distinguished by their having an outer coat 

 which easily separates from the thin inner 

 covering, belong to this genus, which 

 contains also a few tropical and subtro- 

 pical species. The smaller of these, B. 

 plumbea, is one of our lesser puffballs, and 

 is easily known by its leaden hue when 

 dry ; the larger, B. nigrescens, by the far 

 firmer and darker inner coat. Both are 

 eatable when young, but our own expe- 

 rience is not in favour of their use, as 

 they are apt to have an unpleasant taste, 

 if they have reached their full growth. 

 Some of the foreign species have violet or 

 russet spores, instead of the more sober 

 hue of our own natives. In all the species 

 it should seem the spores are seated on a 

 short stalk, but this is not without example 

 in Ly ' coper dom. [M. J. B.] 



BOWDICHIA. A genus which belongs 



to the pea-flowered tribe of the legumi- 



nose family. The species are found in 



South America, and chiefly confined to 



Brazil. They are trees with alternate 



| unequally-pinnate leaves, with from five to 



fourteen pairs of leaflets, which vary from 



! half an inch to two inches long, and are 



i often pubescent underneath. The flowers 



! are very numerous, disposed in terminal 



j panicles, and violet in colour. The pods 



are stalked, thin and papery in texture, 



containing six to eight seeds. 



B. nitida, a Brazilian species, is a tree 

 about fifty feet in height with a diameter 

 of one foot ; the wood is exceedingly hard, 

 and the corollas bright blue with a slight 

 ! purple tinge. Another Brazilian species, 

 B. virgilioides, is one of the commonest 

 trees of the Campos, and a great ornament 

 to them, the upper part being clad with 

 flowers of the finest amethystine blue, 

 while the leaves are confined to the lower 

 branches, the upper having fallen off. The 

 bark is of a reddish-brown colour, and is 

 known as Alcornoco bark. It is astringent, 

 slightly bitter, and gives to the saliva a 

 yellow colour. It was once recommended 

 in pulmonary consumption, but its use is 

 now obsolete. All the parts of B. major axe 

 said to have tonic qualities. The genus 

 bears the name of J. E. Bowdich, who tra- 

 velled in West Africa. [A. A. BJ 



BOWMAN'S ROOT. Isnardm alterni- 

 folia ; also applied in America to GUlenia 

 trifoliata. 



