Buffalo-Grass

Bulbil is dactyloides. Small, wiry gra of the plains of central N. America. Buffalo-Nut. Pyrularia pubera . Shrub of the natural family Santa laceæ, native of the southern Alleganies; also called Oil-nut. IMG:content-0638.png:[blocks in formation] Buffon, GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE, 1707-1788. French naturalist, academician 1753, ennobled 1776. He attempted to cover the whole range of science in Natural His tory . 36 vols., 1749-89, having in part of these the aid of Dauben ton and others. His best work is found in vol. 34, Epochs of Nature , 1789.