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lariacece, containing nearly eighty species 

 from America, India, and South Africa. 

 They are trees, shrubs, or herbs, generally 

 tomentose or woolly, especially on the 

 young branches, the under surface of the 

 leaves, the peduncles and calyx, and some- 

 times even on the corolla. They have 

 opposite leaves, and many-flowered pe- 

 duncles, axillary or frequently in a ter- 

 minal thyrse or panicle. The short cam- 

 panulate calyx is divided into four equal 

 teeth. The corolla is campanulate or tu- 

 bular, with the limb spreading and divided 

 into four equal teeth. There are four 

 included stamens inserted either in the 

 throat on very short filaments, or in the 

 middle of the tube. The ovary is two- 

 celled, and bears a simple style with a cap- 

 itate stigma. The capsule dehisces sep- 

 ticidally with two valves; it contains 

 numerous small seeds. [W. C] . r 



BUENA. One of the genera of Cinchon- 

 acece consisting of shrubs closely re- 

 sembling the Cinchona itself, but distin- 

 guished by their solitary terminal flowers, 

 and by the limb of the calyx being decidu- 

 ous, so that the ripe fruit is not crowned 

 by the calyx as in Cinchona. The species 

 are natives of Peru and Western tropical 

 America. [M. T. M.] 



BUFFALO BERRY. Shepiherdia ar- 

 gentea. 



BUFFELHORN. The South African 

 name of the wood of Burchellia capensis. 



BUFFELSBALL. The South African 

 name of the wood of Gardenia Tliun- 

 bergia. 



BUFFONIA. A genus of the alsineous 

 group of Caryophyllacetf, containing small 

 herbs or undershrubs, natives of central 

 Europe, the Medi terranean region, and tem- 

 perate Asia. They have stiff slender stems, 

 often paniculately branched, and somewhat 

 resembling the toad-rush (Juncns bufo- 

 nius) in habit ; leaves awh-shaped, closely 

 applied to the stem ; flowers small cymose, 

 arranged in a spicate, racemose, or panicu- 

 late manner ; calyx four-parted, scarious, 

 compressed ; petals four, white ; stamens 

 four to eight : styles two ; capsule two- 

 valved ; seeds two. One species, B. annua, 

 is said to have been found in Britain in 

 Plukenet's and Dillenius's time, but has 

 not occurred since, and it is not improbable 

 that some other plant may have been 

 mistaken for it. [J. T. S.] 



BUGBANE. An American name for 



Cimicifuga. 



BUGLE. The common name for Ajuga. 



BUGLE- WEED. The American name 

 for Lycopus virginicus. 



BUGLOSS. The common name for An- 

 chusa. — , SMALL. Lycopsis or Anchusa 

 aroensis. — , VIPER'S. The common name 

 for Echium. —, WILD. The common 

 name for Lycopsis. 



BUGLOSSE. (Fr.) Anchusa officinalis 

 — , PETITE. Lycopsis arvensis. 



BUGRANE COMMUNE. (Fr.) Ononis 

 procurrens. 



BUGWORT. The common name for 



Cimici/uga. 



BUIS. (Fr.) Buxus sem,pervirens. — 

 DE MAHON. Buxus balearica. 



BUISSON ARDENT. (Fr.) Crataegus 

 Pyracantha. ■ 



BUKKUM WOOD. The wood of Ccesal- 

 pinia Sappan, used as a dye stuff. 



BUKUL. Mimusops Elengi. 



BULB. A leaf-bud, the scales of which 

 are fleshy, and which propagates an indi- 

 vidual. — , NAKED. A bulb whose scales 

 are loose and almost separate, as in the 

 crown imperial. — , SOLID. A corm, which 

 see. — , TUNICATED. A bulb whose 

 outer scales are thin and membranous. 



BULBIL. An axillary bulb with fleshy 

 scales, falling off its parent spontaneously, 

 and propagating it. 



BULBILLARIA. A genus of Liliacece, 

 scarcely distinct from Gagea, which the 

 only species, B. gageoides, from Moimt 

 Libanus, closely resembles, differing only 

 by having the ovary on a conspicuous 

 club-shaped stalk within the perianth ; 

 there are no radical and only one cauline 

 leaf, which is linear. The plant is remark- 

 able for the small bulbs which occur in 

 the axils of the leaf-like bracts. [J. T. S.] 



BULBINE. A section of the lijiace- 

 ous genus Anthericum, containing several 

 plants natives of South Africa. They 

 have the segments of the perianth spread- 

 ing and yellow ; the filaments, or at least 

 the alternate ones, bearded with short 

 hairs ; leaves somewhat fleshy, like those 

 of the onion ; root fasciculate ; stem short. 

 Several species are cultivated as green- 

 house plants, and are not only pretty, but 

 often fragrant. [J. T. SJ 



BULBOCAPNOS. A section of the 

 fumariaceous genus Corydalis, containing 

 the species which have a large tuberous 

 rootstock, a persistent style, and a digitate 

 process at the base of the seed, which has 

 an embryo, of which the two cotyledons 

 are united into one. Stem usually succu- 

 I lent, with few thin glaucous twice-ternate 

 leaves, having cut leaflets, and a terminal 

 raceme of purple flowers, with paler mark- 

 ings. Several species occur in Europe and 

 temperate Asia, but none are truly native 

 in Britain, though one species, Corydalis 

 solida, often found in gardens, flowering 

 in spring, is naturalized in several places. 

 This plant has solid tubers.a sheathing scale 

 below the leaves, leaf -like bracts digitately 

 cut, and rather large flowers. [J. T. S.] 



BULBOCASTANUM. 

 castanum. 



Bniiium Bulbo- 



BULBOOHiETE. A genus amongst the 



