BUDDLEIA, bild-leya, a genus of about 70 species of shrubs or trees of the family Logansacece, natives of the tropics and warmer temperate regions of the world. A few of the hardiest species, none of which are quite hardy in the northern United States, are cultivated as ornamental plants, for which purpose they are specially fitted by their attractive, usually de ciduous, but sometimes almost persistent foli age and their clusters or racemts of tubular or bell-shaped flowers produced abundantly during the summer. The flowers, which in some spe cies are fragrant, range in color from yellow to red, white, and purple,. and in some cases have more than one color in individual flowers. They may be propagated from seed or cuttings and are found to thrive in well-drained soil in sunny situations. They are popular in the southern United States and the West Indies.
BUDg, bii-dA, Guillaume, French scholar more generally known under the Latin form Budceus: b. Paris 1467; d. 1540. He was royal librarian and master of requites. From his 24th year he devoted himself to study with the greatest zeal, in particular to belles-lettres, to mathematics and to Greek. Among his philo
sophical, philological, and juridical works, his treatise We Asse et Partibus ejus, and his commentaries on the Greek language, are of the greatest importance. By his influence the College Royal de France was founded. He enjoyed, not only as a scholar, but also as a man and citizen, the greatest esteem. His works appeared at Basel (1557). Consult E. de Bud& (Vie de Guillaume Bude' (1884).
BUDS (bud) LIGHT, an exceedingly bril liant light, produced by directing a current of oxygen gas into the interior of the flame of an or gas-burner, by which intense combustion is established and a dazzling light obtained. Thisplan of lighting was adopted in the House of Commons in 1840 and continued till 1852, when another system of lighting was introduced. It was invented by Mr. Gurney of Bude, in Cornwall, and hence the name.