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broad in the middle; at the ends of thdfe the flowers are 
produced in umbels: are yellow at ft rtf, but fade, away to 
a brown ; they come out in July or Auguft, but feldom per¬ 
fect feeds in England. Native of the loath of France, 
Italy, and the Levant. Cultivated by Gerard in 1596. 
t5. Bupleurum fruticefce'ns, or grals-leaved (hrubby 
hare’s-ear: leaves linear; involucre univerfal and partial. 
The leaves of this are (harp and rather fteftiy. It E a na¬ 
tive of Spain, was cultivated in 1739 by Mr. Miller, and 
flowers in Auguft and September. 
16. Bupleprum dilforme, or various-leaved hare’s-ear: 
vernal leaves decompound, flat, galhed ; fununer filiform, 
angular, trifid. This riles with a (hrubby (talk to the 
height ot five or fix feet, fending out fame (ide-tpranches, 
which in the fpring have on their lower parts leaves coin- 
poled of many-fmall flat leaflets, finely cut like tiiofe of 
coriander, and of a lea-green colour; thefe leaves Coon 
fall off, and the upper part of the branches'is clolely co¬ 
vered with long rulh-like leaves having four angles, com¬ 
ing out in clutters from each joint. The flowers grow in 
fpreuding umbels at the extremities of the brandies ; they 
are final!, of an herbaceous colour, and arc fucceeded by 
oblong channelled feeds. According to Linnseus, it has 
the winter leaves of parfley, and the Cummer leaves of 
broom. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, flowers 
from June to Auguft, and was cultivated by Mr. Miller 
in 1752. Miller had many more fpecies in the older edi¬ 
tions of bis dictionary, than in the two laft ; probably 
omitted becaufe they were not worth cultivating either for 
ufe or beauty. 
17. Bupleurum fpinofum : branches of the panicle when 
old naked and fpinefcent; leaves linear. Root perennial; 
Item low, Ihrubby, unequal, (freaked, rigid, with very fre¬ 
quent joints, and branches divaricate and bent back. Na- 
, live of Spain. 
18. Bupleurum nudum, or naked-ftalked hare’s-ear: 
Item branched, leaflefs; root-leaves decompound, fiat, 
galhed; involucres,and involucels lanceolate-oblong. Na¬ 
tive of the Cape of Good Hope. Introduced in 177S by 
Patrick Rnflell, M. D. 
19. Bupleurum coriacenra, or thick-leaved (hrubby 
hare’s-ear: frutefcent; leaves, lanceolate, coriaceous, 
oblique. Stemsupright, fparingly branched, round, dark- 
coloured, annulated with the fears left by the fallen leaves, 
from three to. four feet in height; branches alternate, up¬ 
right, marked with lines, fiftulofe, green; leaves alternate, 
approximating, half-ftem-clafping, quite entire, cultrate 
about the edges, with a (harp reflex point, attenuate at 
the bale, havjng'one whirifh nerve, glaucous, permanent, 
five inches long and near an inch broad, when held up to 
the light appearing very finely netted; feeds oblong, 
rounded on one fide with five wings, fiat on the other. It 
differs from the common (hrubby fort in the oblique fitu- 
ation of the leaves, and in having the peduncles branched. 
The whole plant is vtry fragrant when rubbed. Native 
of Gibraltar ; found there by Maflon, and introduced in 
1784. 
Propagation and Culture. The bupleurums in . general 
are cultivated only in botanic gardens. The feeds (hould 
be fown in autumn, where the plants are defigned to re¬ 
main; /for they do not bear rranfplanting well. To keep 
the plants clean from weeds is all the culture they require-. 
The European (hrubby fort is commonly known among 
gardeners by the title of (hrubby Ethiopian hartwort, and 
is now propagated in the nitrfery-gardeas for fale. Being 
hardy, it will thrive in the open air, and may be intermixed 
with other ever-green (limbs of the fame growth, in the 
front of taller trees, wlitre their Hems are defigned to be 
excluded from fight. It is propagated by cuttings, which 
fhpttld. be planted in 'pots filled with frefh loamy earth, 
and in winter (ireltered under a hot-bed- frame; in the 
•fpring the cuttings will put out roots, but they will not 
be fit to trarifiplant till the autumn following ; fo the pots 
fhould be placed in a lhady (filiation in Cummer, and in 
dry weather they mu ft be re fre fifed with, water. The 
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young plants may.be planted in amurfery-bed at two feel 
diftance for a y£ar or two, to get ftrength, and then tranf-' 
planted where they are to remaim The fifteenth (ort may 
be treated in the fame manner ; but it is not lo'hardy. The 
lixteenth alio is propagated by cuttings, which readily 
take root, if they are planted in April,-in pots filled with 
light eat tli, and plunged into a moderate hot-bed ; when 
they ^utve taken root, they fhould be inured to the open air 
b,y degrees,’ and after they have obtained ftrength may be 
planted each into a (eparafe pot filled 'with light loamy 
earth, placing them in the (hade, till they have taken 
frefh root, when they may be placed with other exptic 
plants in a.flickered filiation, where they may remain till 
the autumn, and then they rauft be removed into the 
green-houfe or dry-ftove. if this plant be propagated by 
feed's,, they (hould be Town in autumn, foon after they are 
ripe, in'pots filled with light earth, which mull be (hel- 
tered under a frame in winter, and in the fpring removed 
to a very gentle hot-bed ; the plants rnuft be inured to the 
open air by degrees, and then treated in the fame manner 
as tiiofe raifed from cuttings. 
BUPRES'TIS,y. in entomology, a genus of infeels be¬ 
longing to the order of coieoptera; called the cow-burner , 
becaufe, being of the nature of cantharides, they endan¬ 
ger the life of cattle if they eat any of them in their food. 
The antennae are fetaceous, and as long as the thorax : the 
head is half drawn back within the thorax, and the an- 
tennte are ferrated : the mouth is armed with jaws, and 
■furnifhed with palpi: the elytra are margined and cover 
the abdomen, and the tarfi have five articulations? the 
feet are faltatorii. There are twenty-feven fpecies of this 
infecl now known, mod of them natives of the Indies. 
The French have given the name of Richard to this genus, 
on account of the beautiful colours with which molt of 
the fpecies are adorned. Thefe infects are not common 
in England? They are of the richeft fplendour ; and fome 
appear, when alive, to be united in colour with the reful¬ 
gent particles of emeralds, uubies, diamonds, and gold. 
Applied to the microfcope, the fplendour is lo great as to 
dazzle the eye. The whole body is green and gold, with 
a bluilli caft underneath; but what diftingnifhes it, are 
four dents .or deprelTed fpots that are feen upon the elytra, 
two upon each. One of thefe dots is on the outward rim 
of the elytrnm, about riie middle of it, near the abdo- 1 
men, and is the larger one. The other is on the inner ■ 
edge, clofe to the future, about three-fourths of that fu¬ 
ture downwards, and exactly oppofite its fellow on the 
other elytrnm. This latter one is-the (mailer. Tiie whole 
upper part of the infe£t, viewed through a glads, appears 
finely dotted. 
In the preceding Plate of bupkaga, are reprefented two 
fpecies of this very curious inleft. Fig". 1, is the bup'rejiis ■ 
bimaculatce of Linnaeus. It is a native of Alia, and one of 
the moil beautiful of the kind. The prevailing colour is 
a deep green with a luftre of gold, on which may be feen 
here and there fome large fpots of gold and purple. The 
middle of the elytra is adorned with two large fpots, 
round, yellow, and tranfparent, which by their colour ap¬ 
proach to gold. On each lide-of thefe fpots, that is, above 
and below them, on-.bath fides of the upper part of the 
body, and ftraight againfis the forehead, are feen purple- 
and gold. The eyes are large, black, and brilliant. The 
antennse are black, and compofed ot fmall beads. The 
wings are brown and tranfparent. ‘ Fig. 2, reprefents the 
under-part of the fame infect, which is-la richly gilded, 
that under the microfcope it appears as if covered with a 
(fleet of gold,'befet with rubies and diamonds, 't he breaft, 
and the four rings of the belly, are adorned with purple and 
green, intermixed with a lively fplendour of gold. The 
fix feet, two of which are protruded from tiie farrheft ex¬ 
tremity of the breaft, and four near the neck, are ot a 
deep gilded green. The wings are purple within, and have 
a green border. Fig. 3,- reprefents the buprejlisfafacularis , 
oriyellow bupreftis.of Africa; which isan inferior fpecies, 
and of very fubordiaate colours. Linmeus has given it 
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