Buccinum
the typical genus of the family buccinidæ. In English they are called whelks, which are not to be confounded with the periwinkle, also sometimes called whelk. B. undatum is the common whelk. Species of the genus exist in the cretaceous rocks, but it is essentially Tertiary and recent.
BUCCLEUGH (bu-klö), the title (now a dukedom) of one of the oldest families in Scotland, tracing descent from Sir Richard le Scott in the reign of Alexander III. (latter half of the 13th century), and first becoming conspicuous in the person of the border chieftain Sir Walter Scott, of Branxholm and Buccleugh the latter an estate in Selkirkshire. The son of Sir Walter, bearing the same name, was, for his valor and services, raised to the peerage, in 1606, as Lord Scott of Buccleugh, and his successor was made an Earl in 1619. In 1663 the titles and estates devolved upon Anne, daughter of the second Earl, who married the Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II., the pair, in 1673, being created Duke and Duchess of Buccleugh, etc. Subsequently the Dukedom of Queensberry passed, by marriage, into the family.