BEDEGAR, BEDEGUAR

n’s. Be'd’e?-ga'r. Pers., bâd- Award, bâd-âwardah. Lat., fungus rosarum (seu b., seu cyozbati, eu comosus), spongia rosdrum. Fr, bedégar, bédéguar. Ger. Rosenschwanim. Schlafapfel, Sie bens chid fer, Siefe. An excrescence roduced on the branciies of rose-bushes by the punctures of various insects (the Cynips rose, the Cynips Brandtii, and others). It has an irregular surface. varies in size from that of a walnut to that of a small apple, is yellowish, greenish, or reddish, and is covered with bristly branched proce es. It consists of an aggregation of small hemispherical noduies, each containing various cavities, in which the eggs of the insect are deposited and hatched. It is odorle and has a sweetish and somewhat astringent taste. It was formerly much used in diarrhoea, caléulous and renal disorders, and rabies, and Re ere contained in it have been recommended in toothache. B, 180,