BUTOMUS

(Lat.), n. m. Bu*(bu)to?m-u's(uts), Gr., Bodropos (from Bods, an ox, and téuyveuy, to cut, because it cut the mouths of cattle feeding on it). Fr., butome, Ger., Blumenbinse, Igelknospe, Igelkolbe. The flowering rush; a genus of alismaceous plants of the tribe Butomeæ. [A, 322; B, 19.]—B, florid us, B. umbel lat us [Linnæus]. Fr., butome ombellifère, jonc fleuri. Ger., Blumenbinse, Wa erviole. The flowering rush of Europe and Asia. The tuberous root-stalk and the seeds (radix et semen junci florid i) were formerly used in medicine, and the former is eaten in northern Asia. [B, 19, 178, 270.] A trivalent radicle, C,H,=CH5 — Bu?t(but)-e?-on-{(e)/ne(nas-e2), An ancient term for rosacea. [Ruland (A, 325); Bu?(bu’/to?m-02n, [A, 387; L, 109,