BUB 
BUB'BY, f. A woman’s bread : a lew pkraft. 
BUBEREZNGV'SKOI, a town of Ruflian Tartary, 
on the river Zulux : thirty-two miles N. of Arkadinlkaia. 
BU'BLITZ, a town of Farther Pomerania : four miles 
fouth-eaft from Coflin. 
BU’BO, or Bubon, f, [jSe&vV, Gr.] The groin. Alfo 
a tumour tending to fu pipit rat ion upon the groin. Tumours 
of the glands which are in the arm-pits, are likewife called 
buboes. See Medicine. 
BU'BON, f. [puGuv, the groin, or a tumour in that 
part, or elfewhere ; which this herb was luppofed to cure.] 
Macedonian Parsley. In botany, a genus of the clafs 
pentandria, order digynia, natural order umbdlatae or 
umbelliferai. The generic charaflers are—Calyx : um¬ 
bel univerfal of about ten rays, the middle ones (hoi ter; 
partial of fifteen to twenty rays; involucre univerfal five¬ 
leaved ; leaflets lanceolate-acuminate, patulous, equal, 
much fhorter than the umbel, permanent; partial, with 
rather more leaflets, of the fame fliape, the length of the 
umbellule; perianthium proper, five-toothed, very (mall, 
permanent. Corolla: univerfal uniform, all the flofcules 
fertile; proper of five, lanceolate, inflex, petals. Stamina: 
filaments five, limple, the length of the corollule; antherae 
fimple. Pillillum: germ ovate, inferior; flylestwo, feta- 
ceous, permanent, hardly the length of the corollule, 
fpreading and reflex.; ftigmas obtufe. Pericarpium: none; 
fruit ovate, fixiated, villofe, bipartile, crowned. Seeds: two, 
ovate, flat on one fide and convex on the other, filiated, 
villofe .—EJfenlial C/iarabler. Fruit ovate, ftriated, villofe. 
Sptcics. i. Bubon Macedonicum, or Macedonian parf- 
ley: leaflets rhomb-ovate, gafh-toothed, teeth acuminate ; 
umbels very numerous j leeds rough with hairs. Mace¬ 
donian parfley fends out many leaves from the root, the 
lower growing almoft horizontally, fpreading near the 
furface of the ground ; the foot (talk of each leaf divides 
into fevered other fmaller, garndhed with fmooth rhamb- 
fhaped leaves, which are of a bright pale green colour, 
indented on their edges. In the center of the plant arifes 
the flower-flem, which is little more than a foot high, di¬ 
viding into many branches, each being terminated by an 
Umbel of white flowers, which are fucceeded by oblong 
hairy feeds. They are of a bay-brown colour on the con¬ 
vex fide, marked with five raifed pale lines, and befet all 
about with hoary hairs ; on the other fide they are flat, or 
very (lightly concave. Loureiro fays, that the ftem is an¬ 
nual, upright, firaight, with many afeending branches ; 
the fruit oblong-ovate, (lender, and very ftrong-feented. 
Native of Greece and Barbary, and probably of the Eaft: 
Indies. It flowers with us in July, or from June to Au- 
guft. In warm countries it is biennial, but in England the 
plants feldom flower till the third or fourth year from 
i'eedi but whenever they flower they always die. It was 
cultivated by John GerarJe, in 1596. In Come parts of 
the eaft they ufe this plant to feent their clothes ; the fmell 
is very ftrong, and rather disagreeable to Europeans. The 
plant, but efpecially the feed, is efteemed to be diuretic, 
emnvcnagogue, and carminative ; the feeds are an ingre¬ 
dient in Theriaca. 
2. Bubon galbarium, or lovage-leaved bubon : leaflets 
ovate, wedge-form, acute, finely ferrated ; umbels few • 
feeds fmooth ; (Jem (hrubby, glaucous. Lovage-leaved 
bubon idles with an upright ftalk to the height pf eight 
or ten feet, which at bottom is ligneous, having a purplifli 
bark, covered with a whitifh powder, which comes oft' 
when handled ; the upper part of the ftalk is garnilhed 
with leaves at every joint, the foot-ftalks half embracing 
them at their bafe; branching out into feveral fmaller” 
like thofe of the common parfley, and fet wfith leaves like 
tliofe of lovage, but (mailer, of a grey colour; the top of 
the ftalk is terminated by an umbel of yellow flowers, 
which are fucceeded by oblong channelled feeds, having 
a thin membrane or wing on their border. It flowers in 
Auguft, but has not produced feeds in England. When 
any part of the plant is broken, there iffiies out a little 
thin milk of a cream-colour, which has a ftrong feent of 
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galbanum. Linnaeus fays, that the leaflets are ffiarply- 
ferrate, and rather rigid ; the umbels denfe and large ; the 
involucres many-leaved; ihe fruit cylindric, not (freaked; 
the (eeds even, without any membranous wing. It is a 
native of the Cape of Good Hope, and was alfo cultivated 
by Gerarde in 1596. This is the (pecies from which ,the 
drug called galbanum is obtained, though it is not perhaps 
entirely clear whether it may not alio be gained from dif¬ 
ferent (pecies of this genus. It is obtained partly by fpon- 
taneous exudation from the ftem, but more commonly by 
incifion in the ftalk a little above the root, from which it 
immediately flows, and foon becomes Sufficiently concre¬ 
ted forgathering. This gum-re (in medicinally conlidered 
may be faid to hold a middle place between aflafoetida and 
ammoniac mil ; but it is far lets fetid than the former. It 
has the credit of being highly ufeful in hyfterical cafes, 
and of promoting and correcting various fecretions and 
uterine evacuations. Externally it has been applied to 
expedite the fuppuration of indolent tumours, and efpeci¬ 
ally as a warm (Emulating platter. It is an ingredient in 
the pilulae e gummi, the emplaftrum Lthargyri cum 
gummi of the London Pharrn. and in the empl. ad clavos 
pedum of the Edinburgh'. 
3. Bubon gummiferum, or gum-bearing bubon: leaf¬ 
lets gafhed, acuminate, the lower ones broader; feeds 
fmooth ; ftem (hrubby. Gum-bearing bubon riles with a 
woody ftalk about two feet high,, with leaves at each joint, 
branching out like thole of the foregoing, but the leaflets 
are narrow and indented, like thole of baftard hemlock. 
The ftalk is terminated by a large umbel of (mall white 
flowers, which are fucceeded by feeds like thofe of the 
former fort. This is alfo a native of the Cape; and, as 
appears by the fi.rft folio edition of Mr. Miller’s dictionary, 
was cultivated in 1731. It flowers in July. 
4. Bubon l igitiius, or (lift-leaved bubon : leaflets linear. 
This is a low perennial plant, having (hurt (lift' leaves, 
w hich are very narrow. The flower-fialk riles near a foot 
high, and is terminated by an umbel of (mall white flow¬ 
ers, which are fucceeded by fmall, oblong, channelled, 
feeds. It flowers in June, and the feeds ripen in Septem¬ 
ber; but it is a plant ol little beauty, and of no ufe that 
we are acquainted with. It grows naturally in Sicily, from 
whence Mr. Miller received the feeds-before 1759. 
5. Bubon laevigatum, or fmooth bubon: leaflets lanceo¬ 
late, very obtufely and obfcurely crenated ; feeds fmooth ; 
ftem (hrubby. This was obferved at the Cape of Good 
Hope by Mallon; and was introduced here in 1774. It 
flowers from December to February... 
Propagation and Cultuic. Thefe are pr-opagated by feeds, 
which ftiould be (own on a bed o( light fandy earth, either 
early in the autumn, or in April; and, if the feafon prove 
warm and dry, the ground ftiould be (haded in the heat of 
the day, and frequently refrefhed with water, which is a 
fare method to bring up the plants; but, where this is not 
pruCtifed, the feeds often fail, or remain long in the ground. 
When, the plants come up, they will require no other care 
but K to be kept clean from weeds, till the beginning of Oc¬ 
tober, when they ftiould be carefully taken up,.and plant¬ 
ed in a warm border of dry ground; and a few of them 
fliould be put into pots, that they may he fheltered under 
a frame in winter ; for in fevere froft, thofe which are ex- 
pofed to the open-air are frequently killed; though, in 
moderate winters, they will live abroad without covering. 
In winter thefe plants (hould have but little water given 
them, for much wet is very injurious to, them ; in hum¬ 
mer, when they are expofed to-the open.air, they mult be 
frequently refreliied with water in.dry. weather 3 but at no¬ 
time fliould have too much wet, for that will rot their 
roots. Thefe plants make a. pretty variety in the green- 
houfe in winter, and, when they are placed abroad in the 
fummer with other green-houfe plants, they have a good 
effect, efpecially when they are grown to a large lize. 
They generally flower the third year from feeds, but their 
flowers are produced Co late in fummer, that the feeds 
have feldom time to form before the cold comes on in the 
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