=BUGLOSS.=--The Bugloss (_Anchusa_) has been made the emblem of Falsehood, because the roots of one of its species (_A. tinctoria_) are used in making rouge for the face. In the wilds of America, the Indians paint their bodies red with the root of a Bugloss (_Anchusa Virginica_) indigenous to their country. Galen notices the use of the Bugloss as a cosmetic in his time, and the rouge made from the roots of this plant is said to be the most ancient of all the paints prepared for the face.----Pliny says that the _Anchusa_ was used by the Romans for colouring and dyeing; and adds, that if a person who has chewed this plant should spit in the mouth of a venomous creature, he would kill it.----The Viper’s Bugloss (_Echium vulgare_) derives its name from its seed being like the head of a viper, and, according to Matthiolus, was celebrated for curing its bites. Nicander also speaks of the Viper’s Bugloss as one of those plants which cure the biting of serpents, and especially of the viper, and that drive serpents away. Dioscorides, as quoted by Gerarde, writes, “The root drunk with wine is good for those that be bitten with serpents, and it keepeth such from being stung as have drunk of it before: the leaves and seeds do the same.”----Bugloss is reputed to be under the dominion of Jupiter. =BULRUSH.=--King Midas, having preferred the singing of Marsyas, the satyr, to that of Apollo, the god clapped upon him a pair of ass’s ears. The king’s barber saw them, and, unable to keep the secret, buried it at the foot of a cluster of Bulrushes. These Reeds, shaken by the wind, continually murmured, “King Midas has ass’s ears.” Both the _Scirpus lacustris_ and _Typha latifolia_ (the Reed Mace) are popularly known as the Bulrush (a corruption of Pole Rush or Pool Rush). The _Typha_ is depicted by Rubens, and the earlier Italian painters, as the Reed put into the hands of Jesus Christ upon His crucifixion. The same Reed is, on certain days, put into the hands of the Roman Catholic statues of our Saviour. Gerarde calls this Reed Cat’s-tail, and points out that Aristophanes makes mention of it in his ‘Comedy of Frogs,’ “where he bringeth them forth, one talking with another, being very glad that they had spent the whole day in skipping and leaping among Galingale and Cat’s-tail.”----The Bulrushes, among which the infant Moses was placed on the banks of the Nile, were Reeds not unlike the _Typha_. The ark in which he was laid was probably a small canoe constructed with the same Reed--the _Papyrus Nilotica_, which, according to Egyptian belief, was a protection from crocodiles. Gerarde says: “It is thought by men of great learning and understanding in the Scriptures, and set downe by them for truth, that this plant is the same Reed mentioned in the second chapter of Exodus, whereof was made that basket or cradle, which was daubed within and without with slime of that country, called _Bitumen Judaicum_, wherein Moses was