BUPRESTIS

(Lat.), n. £ ®st(prast)'i?s. Gen., buprest'eos (-is, -idos, -idis). Gr., Bovxpyors (from Bods, an ox, and mpéOew, to burn). Fr., bupreste. Ger., Prachtkäfer. 1. Burn-cow; an insect to which the ancients attributed poisonous properties like those of cantharides, and which was used in medicine. Eaten by cattle, it was said to cause them to swell wa and die. [Chapuis, “Lyon méd.," May 28, 1882. p. 109; A. 325; H.] 2. A pot-herb, suposed to have heen epee used by the ancient Greeks. [A, 387.] g A genus of the Bupresti, [L.] 4 The botanical genus Hermas. |B, 173.] 5. Of the ancients and of Sprengel, the Bupleurum. [B, 121.] B. gigantea [Sprengel]. The Hermas gigantea. [B, 173.]