Thefe trees commonly grow to twelve or fourteen 

 feet high, and when they are intermixed with other 

 trees of the fame growth, make a pretty diverfity ; 

 for their leaves being of a filver colour, are eafily 

 diftno-uiflied at a diftance. 



The third fort grows naturally at Ceylon, and in fome 

 other parts of India. This is pretty rare at prefent 

 in the Englifh gardens, but fome years paft there 

 were feveral pretty large plants of it growing in the 

 garden at Hampton Court. This rifes with a woody 

 Item to the height of eight or nine feet, dividing into 

 many branches, garniflied with oval filvery leaves, 

 which have feveral irregular fpots of a dark colour on 

 their furface; they are placed alternately on the 

 branches, and continue all the year. The flowers I 

 have not ken, though fome of the trees at Hampton 

 Court produced flowers, but I was not fo lucky as to 



fee them. 



This fort reqiures a warm flove to preferve it in this 



country, for it is too tender to live in the open air, 

 excepting for a fliort time in the warmefl; part of 



fummer. 



The two firfl: forts are extremely hardy, fo are not 

 injured by the frofl:, but the trees are not of very long 

 duration, therefore young plants fliould be raifed 

 once in three or four years, to preferve the kinds. 



E L A T E R I U M. See Momordica. 



ELATINE. SeeLiNARiA. 



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See Inula. 



ELEPHANTOPUS. Lin. Gen. Plant. 827. Vaill. 

 Aft. Par. 1 7 19. Dill. Hort. Elth. 104. [of 'EXfeV?, an 

 elephant, and Ila?, a foot,] Elephant's foot ; fo called 

 by Monfieur Vaillant, becaufe he fays the under leaves 

 of the firlt fort fomewhat refemble an Elephant's 

 foot. 



The Characters are, 

 ^here are many flowers colle£ied together in me eommon 

 large involucrum which is permanent^ end each empale- 



' .ment contains four or five florets \ the florets are tubulous 

 and hermaphrodite ; they have one petal which is tongue- 

 Jhaped -, the brim is narrow^ and divided into five equal 



fpreld flat on the ground, and between thefe arif? i 

 ftiff flialk, about a foot high, which divides into fc-^ 

 veral branches, each being terminated by two flowers, 

 which are compofed of feveral florets,' inclofed in 3 

 four-leaved involucrum •, two of theie leaves are al- 

 ternately larger than the other. The involucrum is 

 longer than the florets, fo they do but juft appear 

 within the two larger leaves ; the flowers make nonap- 

 pearance. They appear in July, but the feeds never 

 ripen in this country. 



The firft fort hath a perennial root, but an annual 

 flralk. If this is planted in pots, and Ihekered in the 

 winter from frofl:, it may be prefcrved feveral years, 

 and the plants will annually flower; but the fecond 

 fort feldom continues longer than two years. 

 Thefe plants are propagated by feeds, which fliould 

 be fown on a hot-bed m the fpring \ and when the 

 plants are come up, they mull be tranfplanted into 

 pots filled with frelh light earth, and plunged into a 

 hot-bed of tanners bark, obfervins; to water and fliade 

 them until they have taken root; then you fliould let 

 them have a large fliare of frefli air in warm weather,- 



and they will require to be frequently refreflied with 



water. 

 E L E P H A S. See Rhinanthus. 

 E L I C H R Y S U M. See Gnaphalium, 

 ELM. See Ulmus. 

 ELLISIA. 



The Characters are^ 





have five very Jhort hairy ft. 



by cylindrical fi 



fituated 



fupporting a flender ftyle^ crowned by twoflender 

 Jligmas \ the germen afterward becomes a fingle compreffed 

 feed crowned with brijiles^ fitting on a placenta inclofed in 

 the empalementn 



This genus of plants is ranged in the firft: feftion of 1 the fl:em, fo as to form a thick bulh ; the branches are 

 Linnseus's feventeenth clafs, which includes the plants generally covered with a dark purple bark ; the leaves 



Thefiowerhas'apermanentempaiementjCompofedoffivefmall^ 

 ere£l^fpreading leaves ; it is of one petals funnel-fhaped the 

 length of the cup^ cut into five obtufe fegments at top ; it 

 bath five ftamina the length of the tube^ terminated by 

 roundifh fummitSy and a round germen fupporting a floor t 

 flender ftyky crowned by an oblong bifid ft igma ; the germen 

 afterward becomes a roundifh flefhy berry with two cells ^ 

 inclofing two rough feeds. 



This genus of plants is ranged in the firft feflion of 

 Linn^us's fifth clafs, intitled Pentandria Monogynia,* 

 the flower having five ftamina and one ftyle. 



We know but one Species of this genus, viz. 

 LLisiA {NySlelea,) Lin. Sp. 1662. I^ea-leaved Ellifia 

 This plant grows naturally in Jamaica, where it forms 

 a bufhy fhrub about fix or feven itzt high. I have 

 raifed many of the plants from feeds, fome of which 

 are now four or five feet high, but have not as yet 

 produced flowers. It fends out many branches from 



alfo when the plants are expofed in fummer turn of 



the fame colour, but after they have been fome time 



removed into the ftove, they recover their verdure 



I. Elephantopus {Scaber) foliis oblongis fcabris. Hort. I again. The leave^^areplacedoppofite on the branches, 



"^^ "^ -' . . . ,, , , ^. which are an ihcKand a half long, Ipear-fhaped and 



with flofculous flowers, whofe florets are all herma- 

 phrodite and fruitful. 

 The Species are. 



Eleph 



1719 



Mem. A 

 foot with a Flea-bane leaf 



Gron, Virg. 90. Elephantopus with oval woolly leaves. 

 Elephantopus helenii folio, purpurafcente flore.Houft. 



uplift) flower. 



leaf^ and a 



Ihe firft fort grows naturally in both the Indies, I 

 nave received it from feveral parts of America ; this 

 fends out many oblong rough leaves, which Ipread 

 near the ground -, between thefe in the fpring arifes 

 a branching ftalk, little more than a foot high. The 

 fide branches are fhort, and are generally terminated 

 oy two heads of flowers, each ftanding upon a Ihort 

 foot-ftalk. The heads contain feveral hermaphrodite 

 florets, included in a common involucrum, compofed 

 of four oval leaves, ending in acute points, 

 florets are of a pale purple colour. They appear in 

 July, but are rarely fucceeded by feeds in England. 

 The fecond fort grows naturally in South Carolina ^ 

 the plants of this have frequently come up in the 

 earth, which has been fent over from thence with 

 other plants as weeds ; this hath feveral oval woolly 

 leaves, four inches long, and three inches broad. 



indented on their edges, and have commonly two or 

 three fmall leaves fitting clofe to the branches ; at the 

 foot-ftalks of the larger leaves, and at the fame place, 

 arifes pretty long black fpines, generally placed op- 

 pofite toward the lower part of the branches, but 

 upward they are alternate, and the ends of the 

 branches are without thorns. As the plants have not 

 as yet produced flowers in England, fo I can give no 

 farther account of them. 



This plant maybe propagated by cuttings, which if 

 planted in fmall pots filled with light earth, and 

 plunged into a moderate hot-bed. 



covering them 



The 



tranfverfe 



growing from the root, having many 



serves, running from the midrib to the fides ^ they 



roots in about two months, fo may then be feparated 

 and put into fmall pots, plunging them again into 

 the hot-bed to promote their taking new root, after 

 which they fliould be gradually inured to the open 

 air ; but the beginning of October they fliould be re- 

 moved into the dry ftove, where, during the winter, 

 they fliould have a moderate warm air, in which they 

 will thrive better than in a great heat. 

 When feeds of this plant can be procured from! 

 abroad, if they are fown on a hot-bed the plants will 

 rife eafily, and may be afterward treated in the fame 

 way as is direfted for thofe raifed by cuttings. 



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