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Bog Pimpernel

a species of pimpernel, anagallis tenella. It is found in bogs, and not like its congener, the scarlet pimpernel (A. arvensis), in cornfields. It is a small creeping plant with rose colored flowers. a

Bog Rush

an English book name for schænus, a genus of the order cyperacex (sedges). As now limited it contains only the black bog rush, a plant found on wet moors, and recognizable on account of its dark brown, nay, almost black, heads of flowers. It is also the name of a species of warbler about the size of a wren.

Bog Spavin

an encysted tumor filled with gelatinous matter inside the hock of a horse.

Boide

a family of ophidiæ (serpents) belonging to the suborder colubrina. They have no poison fangs. They have the rudiments of hind limbs. The chief genera are boa, python and eryx.

Boii

a powerful Celtic people who dwelt originally in Transalpine Gaul, part of whom settled in the modern Bohemia, and bequeathed their name to that country.

Boito

ARRIGO (bō-ē'tō), an Italian poet and musician, born at Padua, in 1842. His father was an Italian painter and his mother a Polish lady. His librettos, written for Verdi, Bottesini and others, and his own operas, "Mefistofele"

Bole

a brownish, yellowish, or reddish colored unctuous clay. It contains more or less oxide of iron, which is the coloring matter in it; there is besides about 24 per cent. of water. Dana ranks it as a variety of halloysite, but considers that some of the specimens belong to other varieties.

Bolero

a national dance of Spain and Spanish America, usually accompanied with the castanets, and the zither or guitar, and sometimes with the voice.

The dance is intended to represent a love story.

Bolides

a name given to those meteoric stones or aerolites that explode on coming in contact with the atmosphere.

Bolingbroke

HENRY OF, a Duke of Hereford, afterward HENRY IV. (q. v.) of England. He figures in Shakespeare's plays, "Richard II." and "Henry IV."

Bolivar

the largest state of Venezuela, South America, comprising that portion of Venezuela which lies S. of the Orinoco and Apure rivers; area, 88,701 square miles; pop. about 70,000.

Bolognese School

an Italian school of painting, founded in the 14th century, probably by Franco. The great master of the school was Francesco Francia, a contemporary of Raphael, celebrated for the purity and serenity of his Madonnas. The Caracci, who painted the frescoes of the Farnese Palace, were the leaders of the later school.