BUB 
Bu bble, in commerce, a cant term, given 
to a kind of projects for raising of money on 
imaginary grounds, much practised in France 
and England, in the years 1719, 1720, and 
1721. 
The pretence of those schemes was the 
raising a capital for retrieving, setting on 
foot, or carrying on some promising and 
useful branch of trade, manufacture, ma- 
chinery, or the like : to this end propo- 
sals were made out, shewing the advan- 
tages to be derived from the undertaking, 
and inviting persons to be engaged in it. 
The sum necessary to manage the affair, to- 
gether with the profits expected from it, 
were divided into shares or subscriptions, to 
be purchased by any disposed to adventure 
therein. 
Bubbles, by which the public have been 
tricked, are of two kinds, viz. 1, Those 
which we may properly enough term trad- 
ing bubbles and, 2. Stock or fund-bubbles. 
The former have been of various kinds ; 
and the latter at different times, the most 
remarkable one in this country was that in 
1720. 
BUBO, in ornithology, the name by 
which zoologists call the great horned-owl, 
with a reddish-brown body. See Strix. 
Bubo, in surgery, a tumour which arises 
with inflammation, only in certain or parti- 
cular parts to which they are proper, as in 
the arm-pits and in the groins. 
BUBON, in botany, a genus of the Pen- 
BUB 
tandria Digynia. Natural order of Umbel- 
late®. Essential character : fruit ovate, 
striated, villose. There are five species, of 
which B. macedonicum, Macedonian parsley, 
it sends out many leaves from the root, the 
lower growing almost horizontally, spread- 
ing near the surface of the ground - f the foot 
stalk of each leaf divides into several other 
smaller, garnished with smooth rhomb- 
shaped leaves, which are of a bright pale- 
green colour, indented on their edges. It 
is a native of Greece and Barbary. It 
flowers with us from June to August. In 
warm countries it is biennial, but in Eng- 
land the plants seldom flower till the third 
or fourth year from seed; but whenever 
they flower they always die. B. galbanum, 
lovage-leaved bubon, rises with an upright 
stalk to the height of eight or ten feet, hav- 
ing a purplish bark, covered with a whitish 
powder, which comes off when handled ; the 
upper part of the stalk is covered with 
leaves at every joint, the foot stalks half 
embracing them at their base, branching 
out into several smaller, like those of the 
common parsley, and set with leaves like 
those of lovage, but smaller and of a grey 
colour. It flowers in August, but has not 
produced seeds in England. When any part 
of the plant is broken there issues out a little 
thin milk of a cream colour, which has a 
strong scent of galbanum. It is a native of 
the Cape of Good Hope. 
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