Crossword-Solution: BUXUS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwaft box (B.suffruticosa), is much used for borders in gardens.

The European varieties of the milkwort, except the chamæbuxus, are all minute,--and, their ordinary epithets being at least inoffensive, I give them for reference till we find prettier ones; altering only the Calcarea, because we could not have a 'Chalk Juliet,' and two varieties of the Regina, changed for reason good--her name, according to the last modern refinements of grace and ease in pronunciation, being Eu-vularis, var.

The most limited plants are Iris, Silene, Aristolochia tetrarima vix infra 6,000 feet, Buxus, Delphinioid, Fraxinus non infra 6,000 feet, Epipactis ditto, Hutchinsia, Lomaria of Khegumpa, Mitella, Carex stricta of Chupcha, _Petunia_, Smilax gaultherifolia, Osmundia non infra 5,500 feet, Hydrangeacea ditto, Cucurbitacea cissifolia, found about Suddiya, etc.

Used in turnery, for wood engraving, shuttles, bobbins, plane stock, shoe lasts, and largely as a substitute for box (_Buxus sempervirens_)--especially the black or Mexican variety,--also used for pocket rules and drawing scales, for flutes and other wind instruments.

Buxus sempervirens aurea, "Golden Box." Corylus maxima atropurpurea, a dark-purple, very effective variety of the Cob-nut.