ox-eye; a genus of the polyantha superflua order, belonging to the syngenesia class of plants. There are ten species; of which the following are the most remarkable.

Species. 1. The helianthoides, a native of North America. This hath a perennial root, and an annual stalk, which rises six or eight feet high, garnished at each joint with two oblong heart-shaped leaves, which have three longitudinal veins, and the base on one side shorter than the other. The flowers come out at the extremities of the branches, and are of a bright yellow colour, resembling a small sunflower. 2. The arboreus, rises with several woody stems to the height of eight or ten feet, garnished with leaves very unequal in size; some are narrow and long, others are broad and obtuse; these are intermixed at the same joint, and often at the intermediate one; they are green, and placed opposite. The flowers are produced at the ends of the branches; they are of a pale yellow colour, and have scaly empalements.

Culture. All the species may be propagated by seeds; and those which do not, by parting their roots, BURPLEURUM, HARE'S-EAR, or thorough-wax; a genus of the digynia order, belonging to the pentandra clas of plants. There are 17 species, of which only the following is remarkable, viz. the fruticofum, or shrubby Ethiopian hartwort. This rises with a shrubby stem, dividing into numerous branches, forming a bushy head five or six feet high, adorned with oblong, oval, entire leaves of a pale green colour, placed alternate, with yellow flowers in umbels at the ends of the branches, which appear in July and August, and are sometimes succeeded by ripe seeds. It may be propagated by cuttings.

BURESTIS, in zoology, a genus of insects belonging to the order of colooptera. The feelers are like bristles, and about the length of the breast; the head is half retracted into the thorax. There are 27 species of this insect, most of them natives of the Indies.