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(hort, in the throat of the corolla; the two upper ones pro¬ 
minent, outward, fliort; anfheraS oblong, obtufe. Piftil- 
lum : germ ovate-oblong; flyle filiform, the length of the 
tube; ftigma obtufe. Pericarpium: capfule acuminate, 
covered, two-celled, gaping at the top into tw'o parts; 
partition contrary. Seeds : numerous, angular ; recep¬ 
tacle fattened to the middle of the partition .—EJjcnlial 
CharaB.tr. Calyx, obfcurely five-toothed ; corolla, bor¬ 
der five-cleft, equal, lobes cordate ; capfule two-celled. 
Species, i. Buchnera Americana, or North-American 
buchnera : leaves toothed, lanceolate, three-nerved. Stem 
fcarcely branching ; flowers in a f’pike remote from each 
• other. The herb grows black in drying. It is a native 
of Virginia and Canada. 
2. Buchnera cernua, or drooping buchnera : leaves 
wedged, five-toothed, fmooth ; flowers fpiked, flein fhru’o- 
by. This is a lhrub half a foot in height, branching,re¬ 
gularly, a little jointed from the fears left by the leaves, 
purplilh. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
3. Buchnera cuneifolia, or wedge-leaved buchnera : 
leaves wedge-form, fmooth, feven-toothed at the end. 
This was found at the Cape by Thunberg. 
4. Buchnera cordifolia, or heart-leaved buchnera : (fern 
four-cornered ; leaves oppofite, cordate, three-nerved, fer¬ 
rate, racemes terminal, fubfpiked. This was obferved 
near gardens about Tanfchaur or Tanjour in the Eaft In¬ 
dies by Koenig, on whole authority it is referred to this 
genus, from which in habit it is widely different; for it is 
more like the vervains. 
5. Buchnera grandiflora, or great-flowered buchnera : 
icabrous; leaves oppofite, feftile, oblong, entire; pedun¬ 
cles axillary, one-flowered, two-leaved ; calyx funnel- 
form. This is a very beautiful plant, with an upright, 
fmooth, and very fimple, ftem. Found in South Ame¬ 
rica, by Mitt is. 
6. Buchnera ZEthiopica : leaves thred-toothed ; flowers 
pedttncled; ftem ftuubby. Stem fuffruticofe, half a toot 
high, extremely branching. Native of the Cape of Good 
Hope. 
7. Buchnera Capenfis, or Cape buchnera: leaves tooth¬ 
ed, linear; calyxes pubefeent. Tltis is a ftnall plant, with 
the flowers in terminating fpikes. It differs from the fore¬ 
going, in having a pubefeent, vifeid, flem, branching only 
at top, two remote teeth on each fide of the leaves, and 
an annual root. It is alfo a native of the Cape. 
.8. Buchnera Afiatica, or Eaftern buchnera: leaves quite 
entire, linear ; calyxes icabrous. Native of Ceylon and 
China. 
9. Buchnera pinnatifida, or pinnatifid-leaved buchnera: 
leaves pinnatifid, fmooth. Found at the Cape of Good 
Hope by Thunberg. 
10 Buchnera vifeofa, or clammy buchnera : leaves li¬ 
near-lanceolate; loofely toothed, fomewhat glutinous; 
flowers pedttncled ; ftem fhrubby. The flowers are pur¬ 
ple, with a yellow eye : it cannot boaft much beauty, but 
it occupies little room, and flowers during molt of the 
fummer. It was found at the Cape by Mafton, and was 
introduced here in 1774. 
11. Buchnera elongata, or long buchnera : leaves en- 
• tire, oppofite ; calyxes fomewhat hairy, longer than the 
fruit. Native of South America and Jamaica. 
Propagation and Culture. Of thefe plants the tenth on¬ 
ly lias yet been introduced into culture among us, and that 
grows readily from cuttings, as probably many of the o- 
thers would do. The firft fort is hardy; the feeond, the 
third, fixth, feventh, ninth, and tenth, being natives of 
the Cape, w-iil require the prote&ion of the dry-ftove, 
confervatory, or glafs-cafe-. The fourth and eighth, be¬ 
ing native: of the Eaft Indies, and fifth and eleventh of 
South America and the-Weft Indies, muft be kept in the 
bark-ftove whenever they fliall be cultivated among us. 
BUC'HOLTZ, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, and county of Verden : eighteen miles eaft- 
jiorth-eaft of Verden. 
BUCHORE'ST, fee Buccharest. 
BUG 
BUC'HORN, an imperial town of Germany, in the cir¬ 
cle of Swabia, fituated on the north fide of the lake of 
Conftance. Its afleftment in the matricula of the empire 
and circle is thirteen florins, and it pays twenty rixdollars 
twenty-feven kyuitzers to the chamber at Wetzlar. Here 
are vvarehoufes for goods configned to it for the paftage of 
the lake ; the inhabitants are Lutherans: thirteen miles 
eaft of Conftance, and eleven fouth-fouth-weft of Raven- 
fpurg. Lat.47.38-N. Ion. 27. 6. E. Ferro. 
BU'CkOV, a town of Hungary: two miles weft of 
Bolefko. 
BU'CHY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Lower Seine, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict 
of Goiirnay : five leagues weft-north-weft of Gournay, 
and four and a halt north-eaft of Rouen. 
BUCI'DA, f. [Browne had named this tree buceras , 
tVom the fttape of a procefs terminating the fpike, like a 
bull’s horn : Linnaeus, we -know not why, changed it to 
bucida. Nicamfer, in Alexiph. has a plant named fiovxe- 
j:o.c,or In botany, a genus of the clafs decan- 
dria, order, monogynia, natural order holoracete. The 
generic characters are—Calyx : perianthium one-leafed, 
bell-form, obfcurely five-toothed, fuperior, perntanent. 
Corolla: none. Stamina: filaments ten, capillary, in¬ 
ferred into the bafe of the calyx, ancf longer than it; an- 
therte cordate, erect. Piftillum: germ inferior, ovate; 
ftyle filiform, the length of the ftamens ; ftigma obtufe. 
Pericarpium : berry dry, oVate, one-celled, crowned with 
the calyx. Seed: one, ovate.— EJfentialCharacler. Calyx, 
five-toothed, fuperior; corolla, none; berry, one-feeded. 
Only one fpecies, called bucida buceras, or olive bark- 
tree. This tree grows from twenty to thirty feet in height; 
the branches and twigs are divaricate or flexuofe, roundifh, 
fmooth, and even. The leaves are crowded at the forkings 
of the twigs; they are petioled, obovate, quite entire, 
nerved, veined, fmooth, and the younger ones are hoary 
underneath. Flowers in racemes ((pikes, Linn. Browne, 
and Juft'.) from the axils of the crowded leaves, fimple, 
longer than the leaves, fpreading, many-flowered. Pe¬ 
duncles round, long, hoary ; flowers yellowifh. The ends 
of the twigs (flower-fpikes, Browne) fometimes (hoot out 
into a monftrous excrefcence, fomething in the form of a 
bull’s horn (whence the name of the tree); feldom lefs 
than three inches in length, though never above a line and 
a half in diameter. Calyx hoary without, tomentofe with¬ 
in. Filaments twice as long as the calyx. Antherte roun¬ 
difh, yellow. Germ flatted, with ftem ftreaks at the bafe. 
Style Tubulate, hirfute at the bafe. Browne obferves, that 
this tree is remarkable for its (lender crooked branches, 
and the tufted difpofition of the leaves : that it grows to 
a confiderable fize, is reckoned an excellent timber-tree, 
and that the bark is greatly efteemed by the tanners. It 
is a native of the Weft Indies, in low fwampy clayey lands 
near the coaft ; flowering in fpring. In Jamaica it is call¬ 
ed black olive ; in Antigua, French oak ; in the French 
iflands, grtgnon. 
BUCPNO, a town of Italy, in the territory of Naples: 
fix miles weft-north-weft of Cangiano. 
BUCK,/ [ bauche , Ger. Aids, or lye.] The liquor in 
which clothes are waftied.— Buck! I would I could wafh 
myfelf o£ the buck : I warrant you, buck, and of the fea- 
fon too it (hall appear. Shahefpeare. —The clothes wafhed 
in the liquor.—Of late, not able to travel with her furred 
pack, fhe wafttes bucks here at home. Shahefpeare. 
BUCK,/. [ bzoch , Welfti; bock, Dm. bouc, Fr.] The 
male of the fallow deer; the male of rabbits, and of other 
animals; whole female is denominated a doe. — Bucks , goats, 
and the like, are faid to be tripping or faliant, that is, go¬ 
ing or leaping. Pea chain. 
To BUCK, v. a. To wafh clothes.—Here is a bafket; 
he may creep in here ; and throw foul linen upon him, as 
it it were going to bucking. Shakefpeace. 
To BUCK, v. n. To co pula re as bucks and does.— the 
chief time of letting traps, is in their bucking time. Mor= 
timer. 
BUCK? 
