a. ‘The bush that burned and was not consumed’ mentioned in Exod. iii., and assumed as an ensign by the Presbyterian churches of Scotland, in memory of the persecution of the 17th c. b. A name applied to various shrubs or plants, as the Artillery plant, Pilea Serpylliflora, the Dictamnus Fraxinella and (U.S.) the Euonymus atropurpureus and E. Americanus.
1866. Treas. Bot., Burning Bush, sometimes applied in gardens to the Artillery plant.
1878. Britten & Holland, Plant-n., Burning Bush, Dictamnus Fraxinella, L. (in gardens). It is said that the plant gives off so large a quantity of essential oil that the air around it becomes inflammable, and will ignite if a light be brought near.
1883. S. B. Parsons, in Harper’s Mag., April, 726/1. The dark green of the euonymus, or burning-bush, clothed in the autumn with its brilliant scarlet berries, makes a striking group with the lighter lilacs and the bluish tint of the glaucous juniper.
