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bright blue colour, fometimes inclining to a purple 
or red, and often there are flowers of three colours 
on the fame plant. When thefe fall away, the ger- 
men in the center becomes an oval capfule of one 
cell, filled with fmall, brown, angular feeds. It flowers 
in July, Auguft, and September, and the feeds are 
ripe in five or fix weeks after. 
When this plant was firft raifed in the Chelfea garden, 
I gave it the title of Dalea, in honour to Mr. Dale, 
an eminent botanifl, and a great friend of Mr. Ray’s. 
By this title it was delivered to the Royal Society, 
and printed in the Philofophical Tranfa&ions, and 
alfo in the catalogue of the Chelfea garden : and bv 
the fame I communicated the feeds to Doctor Lin- 
naeus, who afterward changed the name to Browallia, 
and printed it in the catalogue of Mr. Clifford’s 
garden ; where there is a figure of it exhibited, fo 
that this latter title is become almoft univerfal among 
botanifts. 
The fecond fort grows naturally in Peru, from whence 
the younger Juffieu fent the feeds ; this plant rifes 
about the fame height as the firft, but hath ftronger 
ftalks, and fends out a greater number of branches, 
fo is much more buffry than that ^ the flowers are pro- 
duced upon foot-ftalks, which proceed from the wings 
of the leaves •, fome of thefe foot-ftalks fuftain one, 
others three, or more flowers, of a dark blue colour ; 
thefe are fucceeded by oval capfules, filled with fmall 
angular feeds. 
This plant is annual, and requires the fame culture 
as the firft fort, with which it will produce plenty of 
feeds. 
BRUNELLA, Self-heal. See Prunella. 
BRUNSFELSIA. Plum. Nov. Gen. 12. Lin. 
Gen. Plant. 230. This plant takes its name from Dr. 
Brunsfelfius, a famous phyfician. 
The Char.acters are. 
The empalement is permanent , bell-ftoaped , and of one leaf 
•which is cut into five blunt fegments at the top. The 
flower is of one leaf and funnel-foaped , having a long 
tube , but fpreads open at the top , where it is divided into 
five obtufe fegments •, it hath five Jlamina the length of the 
tube , which are inferted in the petal , and are terminated 
by oblong fummits. In the center is placed a fmall round 
germen , fupporting a fender Jlyle the length of the tube , 
•which is crowned by a thick ftigma. The empalement af- 
terward becomes a globular berry with one cell , inclofing 
a great number of fmall feeds , which adhere to the fikin of 
the fruit. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fedtion of 
Linnaeus’s fifth clafs, intitled Pentandria Mono- 
gynia, the flower having five ftamina and but one 
ftyle. 
We know but one Species of this genus, viz. 
Brunsfelsia. ( Americana .) Lin. Sp. Plant. 19 1. American 
Brunsfelfia. Brunsfelfla flore albo, fructu croceo rnolli. 
Plum. Nov. Gen. 12. 
This plant rifes with a woody ftem to the height of 
eight or ten feet, fending out many fide branches, 
which are covered with a rough bark, garniflied with 
oblong leaves which are entire, and on the lower 
part of the branches come out Angle ; but toward their 
extremity, they are placed on every fide, and are 
unequal in fize. At the extremity of the branches, 
the flowers are produced, generally three or four to- 
gether. Thefe are almoft as large as thofe of the 
greater Bindweed, but have very long, narrow, hairy 
tubes *, the brim is expanded in the form of the 
Convolvulus, but is deeply divided into five obtufe 
fegments, which are indented on their border. After 
the flower is paft, the empalement turns to a round 
foft fruit, inclofing many oval feeds, which are ft- 
tuated clofe to the cover or fkin, to which they 
adhere. 
This plant grows naturally in moft of the fugar iflands 
in America, in which places they call it Trumpet 
Flower •, but in the Englifh gardens, it is at prefent 
very rare. It may be propagated from feeds, which 
ihould be fown early in the fpring in pots filled with 
light earth, and ■ plunged into a hot-bed of tanners 
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bark, obferying to water the earth as often as you 
find it neceffary. When the plants are come up, 
they fhould be tranfplanted each into a feparate fmall 
pot filled with frefti light earth, and plunged into the 
hot-bed again, , obferving to water and ftiade the 
plants until they have taken root ; after which they 
muft have air admitted to them every day, in propor- 
tion to the warmth of the feafon. When the plants 
have advanced fo high as not to be contained in the 
frames, they ihould be removed into the bark-ftove, 
where, during the fummer .months, they fhould have 
a large fhare of free air, but in winter they muft be 
kept very clofe. With this management the plants 
will be very ftrong, and produce their flowers every 
feafon. Thefe plants may alfo be increafed by plant- 
ing cuttings in the fpring, before they begin to 
make new fhoots, in pots filled with frefti light earth, 
and plunged into a hot-bed of tanners bark, ob- 
ferving to water and fhade them until they have taken 
root ^ after which, they muft be managed as hath 
been directed for other tender exotic plants from the 
fame countries. 
BRU SC US. See Ruscus. 
BRYONIA [this plant is fo called from ByjT, mofs, 
or hair, becaufe it bears a flower which is foft and 
hairy,] Briony. 
The Characters are. 
It hath male and female flowers on the fame plant. The 
male flowers have an empalement of one leaf which is 
bell-Jhaped , and indented in five parts at the top. The 
flower is bell-fhaped , adhering to the empalement , and cut 
into five fegments. It hath three fort ftamina and five 
fummits , two of the ftamina having double fummits , and 
the other one. The female flowers fit upon the germen , 
and have a deciduous empalement , but the petal is the 
fame with thofe of the male. The germen which is itkder 
- the flower , fupports a trifid fpreading ftyle , crowned by a 
fpr ending indented ftigma. The germen afterward becomes 
a frnooth globular berry , containing oval feeds adhering to 
the fkin. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the tenth fedlion 
of Linnaeus’s twenty-firft clafs, intitled Monoecia Syn- 
genefia, from its having male and female flowers on 
the fame plant, and the ftaminajoined with the ftyle. 
The Species are, 
1. Bryonia {Alba) foliis palmatis utrinque callofo-fca- 
bris. Hort. Cliff'. 453. Bryony with palmated leaves , 
which are rough and callous on both fides. Bryonia af- 
pera, five alba baccis rubris. C. B. P. 297. White 
Briony with red berries. 
2. Bryonia ( Africana ) foliis palmatis quinquepartitis 
utrinque laevibus, laciniis pinnatiftdis. Lin. Sp. 1438. 
Briony with palmated leaves cut into five fegments , which 
are frnooth on each fide. Bryonia Africana laciniata, 
tuberofa radice, floribus herbaceis. Par. Bat. 107. 
3. Bryonia ( Cretica ) foliis palmatis fupra callofo-punc- 
tatis. Hort. Cliff. 453. Cretan Briony with palmated 
leaves , who ft upper fur face is Jludded with callous fpots. 
Bryonica Cretica maculata. C. B. P. 297. 
4. Bryonia (. Racemofa ) foliis trilobis fupra callofo- 
punctatis, fructu racemofo ovali. Briony with trilobate 
leaves , whofe upper fides are marked with callous fpots, 
and oval fruit growing in bunches. Bryonia olivae rructu 
rubro. Plum. Cat. 3. 
5. Bryonia ( Variegata ) foliis palmatis, laciniis lanceo- 
latis, fupra punbtatis interne laevibus, fructu ovato 
fparfo. Briony with palmated leaves , whofe figments are 
fpear-jhaped , and their upper fide fpotted , but their under 
frnooth , and an oval fcattered fruit. Bryonia Americana 
frudtu variegato. Dillen. 
6. Bryonia ( Bonarienfis ) foliis palmatis quinquepartitis 
hirfutis, laciniis obtufis. Briony with hairy palmated 
leaves divided into five parts, and obtufe figments. Bryonia 
Bonarienfis fici folio. Hort. Elth. 58. 
The firft fort grows upon dry banks, under hedges, 
in many parts of England •, but may be cultivated in 
a garden for ufe, by fowing the berries, yn the fpring 
of the year, in a dry poor foil •, whefe they will in 
two years time, grow to be large roots, provided 
they are not too clofe. The roots of this plant have 
been 
