BESLERIA (from Basilus Besler an apothecary at Nuremberg, author of a book, intitled, Hortus Epistatenfis), a genus of the angiosperma order, belonging to the didymia class of plants. Of this genus there are three species: the melittifolia, with branching footstalks and oval leaves; the lutea, with simple footstalks growing in clusters, and spear-shaped leaves; and the cristata, with stalks growing single, and a five-leaved involucre. All these are natives of the warm parts of America, and cannot be preserved in this country without artificial heat. But as they are remarkable neither for beauty nor any other property, we forbear any particular description.