they alfo yield a very fine, durable, yellow, lake ; and all 
thefe in a very large proportion. The lac infedls are fre¬ 
quently found on the final! branches and petioles of the 
leaves of this tree. -Whether the natural juices of its 
bark contribute to improve the colour of their red nidus 
is not yet determined by experiment. The natives of the 
eoaft make no life of the gum or flowers, although they 
promife to be valuable ; the former as a medicine, and 
she latter as a pigment and dying-drug. 
2. Butea fuperba. Root fpindle-form, very large. -Stem 
twining ; as thick as a man’s leg, or thicker ; woody, very 
long, running over large trees. Bark afh-colour«d, pretty 
fmooth. Brandies like the hem, but fmall, and with a 
i'moother bark. Leaves alternate, three’d, remote, very 
large; leaflets downy, in other refpefts as in the butea 
frondofa, but greatly larger; the terminal one is generally 
about twenty inches long, and broad in proportion; tlie 
lateral fomewhat lefs. Racemes as in the former, but 
much larger: flowers alfo the fame, only much larger, 
and more numerous. Calyx, divided as in the other; but 
the divifions longer and much more pointed. Corolla, the 
fame. Legume.and feed, as in the firfl fpecies, but rather 
larger. This is a very large twining fhrub, a native of the 
mountains of Coromandel; it flowers in the beginning of 
the hot feafon. When this fpecies is in full flower, the 
vegetable world hardly offers a more gaudy ffiow. The 
flowers are incomparably beautiful, very large, and very 
numerous ; the colours are exceedingly vivid, fo that the 
very beff colours cannot give a full idea of their beauty. 
From the Allures in the bark the fame fort of ruby-co¬ 
loured aftringent gum exudes; the flowers alfo yield the 
fame beautiful yellow-dye and pigment. 
BUTE' 0 ,yi [/ 3 u%Ciiy, from t 3 vlov } food.] The buzzard, a 
fpecies of hawk, fo called from its rapacity. See Falco. 
BU'TES, one of the defcendants of Amycus, king of 
the Bebryces, very expert in the combat of the ceftus. 
He came to Sicily, where lie was received by Lycafte, a 
beautiful harlot, by whom he had a fon called Eryx. Ly- 
eaffe, on. account of her beauty, was called Venus; hence 
Eryx is often called the fon of Venus. Virg. JEn. 5. v.372. 
One of the Argonauts. Apollod. i.c. 9. A Trojan flain 
by Camilla. Virg./En. 11. v. 690. A fon of Poreas, who 
built Naxos. Diod. 5. A fon of Pandion and Zenxippe, 
prieft of Minerva and Neptune. He married Chthonia, 
daughter of Erechthius. Apoltod. 3. c. 14, &c. An arm- 
bearer to Anchifes, and afterwards to Afcanius. Apollo 
affbmed his fhape when he defcended from heaven to en¬ 
courage Afcanius to fight. Butes was killed by Turnus. 
Virg An. 9. v. 647. 1 . n. v.632. A governor of Darius, 
bedewed by Conon the Athenian. 
BUTHRO'TUM, a town of Epirus oppofite Corcyra, 
vifited by Asneas, in his way to Italy from Troy, where 
he met Andromache, w hom Pyrrhus kept prifoner. 
BU'TI, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Titfcany, on 
the Arno: twenty miles north-north-eaff of Leghorn. 
Dr. J. Targioni Tozetti, in Iris Travels through Tuf- 
canv, publiffted in 1792, gives the following defcription 
of this town and its neighbourhood : “ In this part, the 
mountains of Pifa form a deep narrow hollow, called the 
valley of Bnti; which is bounded by the ffeep Tides of 
the mountains themfelves, covered with pine, chefnut, and 
olive, trees. In the bottom is a fmooth ground, cut by 
an impetuous torrent; and there, in the very loweft part, 
But; is fituated, in two divifions, the higher called the 
cafJe , and the lower the town. It is continually expofed to 
a cold and moiff air, except during fome days in fummer: 
it is often covered with a thick cloud, and fubjedt to hid¬ 
den changes of weather, particularly to heavy rains; ow¬ 
ing to its being below the high mountains of Pifa, and 
near to the lake of Bientina. From Buti, one can fee no 
other country than the valley itfelf; and this prefents no¬ 
thing to the eye but woods. Day flies away before the 
evening arrives ; and we meet with but very few paths on 
the plain, which are alfo cut and interrupted. In addition 
,to thefe inconveniences, the torrent, which paffes by the 
BUT 
fide of the town, frequently occafions great devaffation 
in the country, and ruins the inhabitants : about fifty years 
ago it dellroyed nearly half the town. Notwithffanding 
all tliefe di fad vantages, Buti is one of the moft confider- 
able towns in the county of Pifa ; and its numerous inha¬ 
bitants, among whom there are many of uncommon opu¬ 
lence, find it not only commodious and agreeable, but 
very falubriotts, great numbers of them attaining to a very 
advanced age.” 
BUT'LER,/". [ bouteiller , Fr. boteler , or botiller, old Eng- 
lifh, from bottle ; he that is employed in the care of bottling 
liquors.] A fervant in a family employed in furnifhing the 
table .—Butlers forget to bring up their beer time enough. 
Swift. 
BUT'LER (William), one of the greateft phvficians 
and moft capricious humorifts of his time, was born at 
Ipfwich, about 1535, and educated at Clare-hall, Cam¬ 
bridge, of which he became fellow. He fettled at Cam¬ 
bridge as a phyfician, and without taking a medical de¬ 
gree. His fagacity in judging of difeafes was very great, 
and his method of cure was fometimes as extraordinary ; 
lie was bold and lingular in his practice, and was thought 
to poffefs extraordinary abilities. Mr. Aubrey informs 
us, that, when he was fent for to king James at Newmar¬ 
ket, he fuddenly turned back to go home, and that the 
meffenger was forced to drive him before him. We find 
he was confulted, with Sir Theodore Mayerne and others, 
in the ficknefs which proved fatal to prince Henry : and 
it is faid that at the firft fight of him, Butler, from his 
cadaverous look, made an unfavourable prognoftic. The 
reputation of phyfic was very low in England before But¬ 
ler’s time ; hypothetical nonfenfe was reduced into fyftem, 
not only in medicine, but in other arts and fciences. Ma¬ 
ny droll ftories have travelled down to us of fome extra¬ 
ordinary cures as ftrangely performed ; for thefe the read¬ 
er is referred to Winvvood’s Memorials, vol.iii. Richard! 
Parkeri, Sceletos Cantabrigienlis, Fuller, Prax. Mayern. 
p. 66 ; and Wood in his Account of FrancisTrefham, Efa. 
He died January 29, 1618, aged eighty-two, and lies buried 
in St. Mary’s church in Cambridge,, with an elegant and 
pompous epitaph over him. He left no w ritings behind 
him. 
BUT'LER (Charles), a native of Hampfltire, bred at 
Oxford ; known at this day only by his curious hiftory of 
bees, intitled, the Feminine Monarchy; a fmall book 
which has been many times printed. He wrote befides a 
Treatife on Mufic, and died in 1634. 
BUT'LER (Samuel), a poet of a very fingular caff, 
born at Strenftiam in Worcefterffrire, and baptized Febru¬ 
ary 14, 1612. Having difcovered an early inclination to- 
learning, his father, Samuel Butler, a reputable country 
farmer, placed him at the free-lchool of Worcefter; 
whence he was fent for fome time to Cambridge, but ne¬ 
ver matriculated in that univerfity. After refiding at it 
fix or feven years, he returned*to his native county, and 
became clerk to Mr. Jefferys of Earl’s Crooinb, an- emi¬ 
nent juftice of the peace for that county, with whom he 
lived fome years in an eafy and reputable ftation. Here 
he found fufficient leifure to apply himfelf to whatfoever 
learning his inclinations led him ; which was chiefly hif¬ 
tory and poetry; adding to thefe, for his diverfion, mufic 
and painting. He was afterwards recommended to that 
great encottrager of learning, Elizabeth countefsof Kent; 
in whofe houfe he had not only the opportunity of con- 
fulting all kinds of books, but of converfing with Mr. 
Selden, who often employed him to write letters beyond 
Tea, and tranflate for him. He lived fome time alfo with 
Sir Samuel Luke, a gentleman of an ancient family in 
Bedford (hire, and a famous commander under Oliver 
Cromwell. Whilft he refided in this gentleman’s family, 
it is generally fuppofed that he planned, if he did not write, 
the celebrated Hudibras; under which chara&er it is 
thought he intended to ridicule that knight. After the 
reftoration of Charles II. he was made fecretary to Rich¬ 
ard earl, of Carbury, lord prefident of the principality of 
Wales, 
