BUB 
•mg 
B U B 
been formerly, by impoftors, brought into an human 
fhape, and carried about the country, and fhewn for 
Mandrakes to the common people, who were eafily 
impofed on by their credulity, and thefe got good 
livings thereby. The method which thefe people 
pradtifed, was to find a young thriving Briony plant, 
then they opened the earth all round the plant, being 
careful not to difturb the lower fibres j and (being 
prepared with fuch a mould, as is ufed by the people 
who make planer figures) they fixed the mould clofe 
to the root, fattening it with wire, to keep it in its 
proper fituation ; then they filled the earth about the 
root, * leaving it to grow to the fhape of the mould, 
which is efrefited in one fummer:, lb that if this be 
done in March, by September it will have the fhape. 
The leaves of this plant, are alfo often impofed on the 
people in the market for Mandrake leaves, although 
there is no refemblance between them, nor any agree- 
ment in quality. 
The fecond and fourth forts are perennial plants, their 
roots remaining feveral years, but their branches de- 
cay every winter. Thefe roots mutt be planted in 
pots filled with frefh light earth, and in winter mutt 
be placed in the green-houfe, to protect them from 
frott and great rains ; which would deftroy them, 
if they were expofed thereto. During the winter 
feafon, they fliould have very little water given them 
but in fummer, when they are expofed to the open 
air, they mutt be frequently refreilied with -water in 
dry weather. 'They flower in July, and in warm 
fummers will perfedt their feeds. 
The third, fifth, and fixth forts, are annual plants ; 
thefe mutt be raifed on a hot-bed early in the fpring, 
and when the plants are about three inches high, 
they fhould be each tranfplanted into a fmall pot filled 
with frefh light earth, and plunged into a hot-bed of 
tanners bark, obferving to water and fhade them 
until they have taken root. When the plants are 
grown fo large, as to ramble about on the furface of 
the bed, and begin to entangle with other plants, they 
fhould be fhifced into larger pots, and placed in the 
bark-ftove, where their branches may be trained to 
the wall, or againfc an efpalier, that they may have 
fun and air, which is absolutely necefiary for their 
producing fruit. When thefe plants are full of fruit, 
they make a pretty variety in the ftove amongft other 
exotic plants. 
The fecond and fourth forts are alfo propagated from 
feeds, which fhould be fown on a hot-bed ; and when 
the plants are fit to tranfplant, they fliould be put 
into pots •, and after they have taken root, fliould be 
inured to bear the open air by degrees where they 
may remain during the fummer feafon, but in winter 
they mutt be flickered under a hot-bed frame. The 
fourth fort is much tenderer than the former. 
BRYONIA NIG-RA. See Tamnus. 
BUB ON. Lin. Gen. Plant. 312. Apium. C. B. 154. 
Ferula. Herm. Par. 163. Macedonian Parfley. 
The Characters are, 
It hath an umbelliferous flower •, the greater, or general 
umbel , is compcfed of about ten fmaller , thofe which are 
fituated in the middle being the Jhortefi , the fmall umbels 
■ have near twenty rays. Hoe general involucrum bath five 
■pointed fpear-Jh aped leaves , which fipread open and are 
permanent * thofe of the fmaller umbels , confifi of many 
little leaves of the fame length with the umbel: the em- 
palement of the fewer is permanent , final! and indented 
in five parts-, the flower is compofed of five fpear-Jhaped 
petals , which turn inward ; it hath five ftamina the length 
of the -petals, terminated by fugle fummits. The. oval 
germen is fituated below the flower, fupporting two briftly 
Jiyles which are permanent , and the length of the ftamina , 
. crowned by obiufe ftigma. The germen afterward becomes 
an oval , channelled , hairy fruit , dividing in two parts , 
each having an oval, feed, plain on one fide , but convex on 
the other. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond fection 
of Linnaeus’s fifth clafs, intitled Pentandria Digynia, 
the flower having five ftamina and two ftvlcs. 
The Species are, 
1. Bubon ( Macedonicum. ) foliolis rhombeo-ovatis ere- 
natis, umbellis numerofiffimis. I 'sort. Cliff. 95. Bubon 
with oval , rhomboid , crenated leaves , and many umbels. 
Apium Macedonicum. C. B. P. 154. Macedonian 
Parfley. 
2. Bubon ( Rigidius ) foliolis linearibus. Hort. Cliff. 94, 
Bubon with very narrow leaves. Ferula d-urior five" ri- 
gidis & breviflimis folds. Boccon. Muf. 2. 84. 
3. Bubon ( Galbanum ) foliolis rhombeis dentatis glabris 
ftriatis umbellis paucis. Hort. Cliff. 96. Bubon with 
fimooth rhomboid leaves and few umbels. Ferula Afri- 
cana galbanifera folio & facie liguftich Par. Bat, 
163. 
4. Bubon ( Gumiferum ) foliolis glabris inferioribus rhom- 
beis ferratis, fuperioribus pinnatifidis tridentatis. Prod. 
Leyd. 100. Bubon with fimooth rhomboid under leaves 
which are fawed, and upper leaves winged and indented 
in three parts. Ferula Africans, galbanifera folio myr- 
rhidis. Hort. Amft. p. 1 t 5. 
The firft fends out many leaves from the root, the 
lower growing almoft horizontally, Tpreading near the 
furface of the ground : the foot-ftalk of each leaf di- 
vides into feveral other fmaller, garnifhed with finooth 
rhomb-fhaped leaves, which are of a bright, pale, 
green colour, indented on their edges. In the- center 
of the plant arifes the flower-ftem, which is little 
more than a foot high, dividing into many branches, 
each being terminated by an umbel of white flowers, 
which are fucceeded by oblong hairy feeds. It flowers 
in July, and the feeds ripen in autumn, foon after 
. which the plant decays. 
This plant in warm countries is biennial-, the plants 
which rife from feeds one year, produce flowers and 
feeds the next, and then perifh : but in England, 
they feldon flower till the third or fourth year from 
feed ; but whenever the plant flowers, it always dies. 
It is propagated by feeds, which fhould be fown on 
a bed of light fandy earth, either early in the autumn, 
or in April ; and if the feafon prove warm and dry, 
the ground fhould be fhaded in the heat of the day, 
and frequently refrefhed with water, which is a lure 
method to bring up the plants ; for where this is not 
praritifed, the feeds often fail, or remain long in the 
ground. When the plants come up, they will re- 
quire no other care but to be kept dean from weeds, 
till the beginning of October, when they fhould be 
carefully taken up, and planted in a warm border of 
dry ground ; and a few of them fhould be put into 
pots, that they may be fheltered under a frame in 
winter for in fevere frott, thofe which are expofed 
to the open air, are frequently killed ; though, in 
moderate winters, they will live abroad without co- 
vering but it is a fecure way to preferve the fpecies, 
to keep two or three plants in pots, in fhelter, during 
the winter, left thofe abroad fliould be deftroyed. 
The feeds of this plant is one of the ingredients in 
Venice treacle. 
The fecond fort grows naturally in Sicily, from whence 
I received the feeds. This is a low perennial plant, 
having fliort ftiff leaves, which are very narrow: the 
fiower-ftalk rifes near a foot high, which is terminated 
by an umbel of fmall white flowers, which are fuc- 
ceeded by fmall, oblong, channelled feeds. It flowers 
in June, and the feeds ripen in September. It is 
propagated by feeds, and fhould have a dry foil and 
a warm fituation, where the plants will continue fe- 
veral years. It is a plant of little beauty or ufe, fo 
is only preferred for the fake of variety. 
The 'third fort rifes with an upright ftalk to the 
height of eight or ten feet, which at bottom is lig- 
neous, having a purplifh bark, covered with a whitifh 
powder, which comes off when handled j the upper 
part of the ftalk is garnifhed with leaves at every joint, 
the foot-ftalks half embracing them at their bafe j 
branching out into feveral fmaller, like thofe of the 
common Parfley, and are fet with leaves like thofe 
of Lovage, but fmaller, of a grey colour the top 
of the ftalk is terminated by an umbel of yellow 
flowers. 
