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Zuingcr’s garden, having at that time intermitted the cul¬ 
ture of his own garden. 
9. Bryonia fcabra, or rough or globe-fruited bryony ; 
leaves cordate, angled, villofe underneath, callous-fca- 
brotis on the upper furface ; tendrils Ample ; berries glo¬ 
bular; feeds fmooth. This is a na’ive of the Cape, where 
it was found by Thunberg and Maffbn. It was introduced 
here in 1774; and flowers in September and October. 
10. Bryonia fcabrella, or roughifh or briftly briony : 
leaves cordate, angular and lobed, callous-h-ifpid; tendrils 
fimple ; berries globular ; feeds imiricate. Native ot the 
Eaft Indies, where it was found by John Gerard Koenig, 
M. D. and was introduced here in 1781, by Sir Joleph 
Banks, Bart. It flowers from May to July. 
11. Bryonia Japonica, or Japan briony : leaves cordate, 
undivided and angular, toothed, unarmed-Jiilpid. The 
leaves have three angular lobes, (harp, with very minute 
hairs on the upper fur face ; pale underneath, d.otted-fcaly, 
an inch long. It creeps on walls. Native ot Japan. 
12. Bryonia latebrofi, or hairy bryony : leaves fubtri- 
lobate, hairy, drawn to a point at the bale. This is very 
eiilily diftinguifhed from its congeners by the leaves not 
being in the lead cordate at the bale, but fubdecurrent 
along the petioles. 
13. Bryonia vcrrucofa, or warted bryony : leaves cor¬ 
date, angled, the upper furface and the veins underneath, 
callous-fcabrous, the callolities remote ; tendrils (imple ; 
berries globular. This and the foregoing are natives of 
the Canary iflaitds, where they were obferved by Mafl'on, 
and whence they were introduced here in 1779. 
14. Bryonia racemofa : leaves cordate, three-lobed, the 
upper ones ovate and fomewhat rugged ; flowers in ra¬ 
cemes ; berries nodding, oval. Native of Jamaica. 
15. Bryonia variegata : leaves palmate, with lanceolate 
fegments, fpotred on the upper, but fniooth on the under, 
lide ; fruit ovate, fenttered. 
16. Bryonia bonarienfis : leaves palmate, five-parted, 
hairy, with obtule fegments. Root and (terns like thofe 
of common bryony, the latter the thicknefs of a quill at 
bottom and angular, towards the top deeply ftreaked, dark- 
green. Leaves refembling thofe of the fig, but fmaller, 
deeply cut into five lobes, narrower at bottom, broader at 
top, narrower and fmaller at the ends of the twigs, .here 
and there toothlected about the edge, hairy, and very 
rough, the upper furface deep green, the lower whitifh. 
Berries fomewhat larger than thofe of the common fort. 
Native of Buenos Ayres. Cultivated in the Kltham gar¬ 
den about 1736. 
17. Bryonia haftata : leaves haftate, toothletted, fmooth ; 
peduncles many-flowered. It is a native of China about 
Canton. 
18. Bryonia triloba : leaves three-lobed, five-nerved; 
jftipnles roundifh, concave; peduncles one-flowered. Na¬ 
tive of Cochin China. 
19. Bryonia Cochinchinenfis : leaves five-cornered, 
rough; berries three-celled, ten.cornered. Native of 
Cochin China in hedges. 
Propagation and Culture. The common European bry¬ 
ony may be cultivated in a garden for ufe, by fowing the 
berries in the fpring on a dry poor foil. In two years the 
toots will grow\ to a large (ize, if the plants be not too 
clofe ; buf it is common enough on dry banks and in hed¬ 
ges in many parts of England. The other fpecies, being 
natives of the Kail and Weft Indies, the Canary 1 (lands, 
or the Cape of Good Hope,, require the protection of tiie 
bark or dry ftove, according to the climate they come 
from. Thele are alfo propagated by feeds fown on a hot¬ 
bed. When they are fit to. tranfplant, they fhould be put 
into pots filled with light frelh earth ; w-hen they have ta¬ 
ken good root, they (hould have as much air as pofliblc, 
and may frequently be refrelhed with water in dry wea¬ 
ther. Several of them will endure the open air in the 
fummer-feafon ; but in winter they muff all be lheltered, 
and then they (hould have very little water. They moft- 
ly (lower in July, and in favourable fummers will perfect 
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their feeds. Some of the forts ate annual plants : thefe 
muft be raifed ori a hot-bed early in the fpring; and, when 
the plants are about three inches high, they (hould each 
be tranfplanted into a (mail pot filled with light frelh 
earth, and plunged into a hot-bed of tanners’ bark, ob- 
ferving to water and lhade them until they have taken, 
'root; when the plants have grown fo large as to ramble 
about on the furface of the bed, and begin to entangle 
with other plants, they (hould be (hifted into larger pots, 
and placed in tire bark-flove, where their branches may¬ 
be trained, to the w.all, or againft an elpalier, that they 
may have fun and air, which are abfolutely neceflary for 
their producing fruit. V/hen thefe are full of fruit, they 
make a pretty variety in the (love among other exotics. 
See Cissus, Convolvulus, Cucumis, Melothria, 
Rajania, Tamus, and Tournefortia. 
BRYO'NJ/E SI'MILIS. See Dioscorea. 
BRYONlOI'DES. See Sissus and Sieves. 
BRY'UM.y: ££?•-•», Gr. to fpring up, on account of 
the many branches it produces.] In botany, a genus of 
mofs, diflinguilhed by a capfule covered with a lid, and 
over that a fmooth veil. But thefe characters it has in 
common with the tnnium and hypnum, two other genera 
much refembling this. The peculiar note of the bryum 
is, that the thread or little Item fupporting the fructifica¬ 
tion grows from a tubercle at the ends of the (tern and the 
branches. Linmeus has thirty-feven fpecies ; Hudfon has 
forty-five, befides many varieties ; Lightfoot has twenty- 
nine defenbed particularly, with many good obfervations; 
Withering fixty-five, befides many varieties, well diliin- 
guilhed ; Allioni has only twenty-eight fpecies ; Haller 
enumerates thirty-three. Hedwig has feparated many of 
Linnxus’s bryums from this genus, and Schreber fias a- 
dopted his corrections and improvements. The character 
of this genus, as it (lands there, is as follows : Capfule, 
ova’e-oblong; periofleum double, outer w ith (ixteen 
broadifti (harp teeth, inner membranaceous, plaited and 
keeled, jagged; jags broadiih, capillary, alternate -. the 
males capitate, or difeoid, or geinmaceous, on the fame 
or a different plant. See Botany, p. 280 of thisvoi. 
BRZES'NO, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Bo- 
leflaw : five miles eaft of Jung Buntzlaw. 
BRZE'ZANY, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Red Ruffia : twenty-four miles north-north-eaff of Halicz. 
BRZE'ZIN, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Bicllk : forty-four miles north-weft of Biellk. 
BRZE'ZINY, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Lenczicz : forty-eight miles fouth-eaft of Lenczicz. 
BRZIS'TEW, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Boleflaw : eleven miles fouth-eaft of Jung Buntzlaw. 
BRZO'STECK, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Sandomirz : 56 miles feuth-fouth-weft of Sandomirzi 
BSU'RA, a river of Poland, which runs into the Vif- 
tula, twelve miles eaft of Ploczko. 
BU, a town of France, in the department of the Eure 
and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict of 
Dreux : two leagues north-eaft of Dreux. 
BUA, an ifland of the gulph of Venice, on the coaft of 
Dalmatia, joined to the town of Tfau by a bridge; called 
likewife the Partridge Ifland, becaufe much frequented by 
thofe birds," It is called Bobus by-Pliny. In the timesof 
the decay of the empire it was called Boas ; and feveral 
illnftrious men that fell under difgrace at court were ba- 
nidled to this ifland ; among whom were FlOrentius, maf- 
ter of the offices of the emperor Julian, inimentius,- de 
Valenti, aird the heroic Jovinian. 1 he emperors of Con- 
ftantinople either were not much acquainted with this pre¬ 
tended Siberia, or were willing to treat the banilhed with 
great clemency. It is certain that the climate of this ifland 
is exceeding mild ; the air perfectly good-; the oil, grapes, 
and fruit, excellent; and the fea around it abounds in fifh, 
and the port is large and fecure. 
BU AMACHU'CO, a town of South America,. in the 
country of Peru, and j.urifdiifioaof Caxamarquila, chiefly 
inhabited by Indians, 
BJJA'NES, 
