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Eritrichium—continued. 
spot on the rockery, where it would alway be moist. In- 
creased by seeds, or by divisions. 
E. nanum (dwarf). A. brilliant sky-blue, with d — eye, 
not unlike those of Myosotis alpestris, but la Summer. 
linear-obovate, covered with long silky-white ory h. 2in. to 
din. abe, 1869, It has been enthusiastically termed the Glory 
of the Alpine Flora. (B. M. 5853.) 
ERNODEA MONTANA. A synonym of Putoria 
calabrica. 
ERODIUM (from erodios, a heron; the carpels re- 
sembling the head and beak of that bird). Heron’s Bill. 
ORD. Geraniacee. A genus of about fifty species of pretty 
hardy or half-hardy herbs or sub-shrubs, natives of Europe 
(Britain), North Africa, and temperate Asia (rare in South 
Africa and Australia). Peduncles generally many-flowered. 
Leaves various in form. Every part of the plant, when 
bruised, emits a strong peculiar odour. Erodiums form 
admirable subjects for rockwork, in dry, sunny situa- 
tions, and in a sandy soil. Increased by divisions, or by 
seeds. 
E. alpinum (alpine). 7. purple, about lin. across, six to ten in 
an umbel; petals Choos. lace than the long-pointed sepals. 
May. J. smoothish, bipinnatifd. Stem branched. A, lft. 
Mountains of Southern Italy, 1814. Hardy. 
E. caruifolium —** —— ‘or red, about jin. 2* ht 
to ten in an um 1. alternatel pinnate 
deeply bipinnate ; TE of Aeriene — 
Mountains of Central Spain. Hardy. 
E. glandulosum (glandular).* A synonym of E. macradenum. 
2. terin Creasy 
Spring and summer. J, somewhat three- oF thtesparted, 
very blunt, deeply toothed. Branches Recent with long, 
hairs. Stem erect, modo at the base. lft. 
—RX Atlas, 1789. Half. Syn. E. trilobatum. (B. M. 
E. macradenum pale violet ; 
the two broadest ones pas: padacncles tony 
flowered. bepress vate’ note at tho — 
d ————— 
gal ig lobes. 
lant stemless, A. 6in. Pyrenees, 1798. Hardy. 12 E. glandu- 
‘losum. (B.M. Beb. Gn., Aug. 30, 1 884.) 
E. Manescavi —— * fl. purplish-red, disposed in 
umbels. Summer. innate ; leaflets wins, deeply cut, lower 
ones the largest. A. t. to 2ft. Pyrenees. fardy. 
eg oe rum (Pelargonium-flowered).* fl. white, spotted 
th purple Se umbellate, eight to ten-flowered. 
Summer, l radical , petiolate, ovate-cordate. Stem elongated, 
branched, ascending. Anatolia. Hardy. A M. 5206.) 
E. (rock). jl. purple ; petals re ; peduncles many- 
flowered, June. t. smoothish, —— ith th pinnatifid segments 
and lanceolate-linear — t stemless. A. din. to 6in. 
Pe recs: France and Spain, 1 toe tage ; 
ah eee white, faintly veined with piak; 
A to September. l. small, co 
peduncles one. edancles ono foweret Å h. 2in. to šin., forming d tuft, 
a Bin 
„Majorca, 1783. 
E. romanum (Roman Jf. purplish ; 
the sepals ; peduncles nia —— — pinnate: ea ieat 
lets — 
biennial. (B. 
— — — ved). f. flesh-coloured, 
with darker lines; petals blunt, a wee longer than the : 
— — cane, li L. hairy, rather jesar, 
aman 
E. perange A synonym of E. hymenodes. 
EROSE. Gnawed, bitten. A term used to denote a 
particular kind of irregular denticulation. 
ERPETION. See Viola. 
- EBRVUM. This genus is now merged, by the authors 
of the “ Genera Plantarum,” into Vicia (which see). 
ERYNGIUM (from eringion, the old Greek name used 
by Theophrastus, &c.). Eryngo. ORD. Umbellifere. A 
genus of hardy or nearly hardy herbs, usually perennial 
and spiny. It comprises more than a hundred species, 
natives of temperate and sub- — regions, 
majority being South American. wers congrega 
into oblong or roundish dense heads; lower bracts 
usually the largest, and forming an involucre round the 
Eryngium — continued. 
head of flowers. Radical leaves, as well as the cauline 
ones, sheathing more or less at the base. Many species 
of this genus are very handsome plants, and are well 
suited for growing in borders and in sub-tropical gar- 
dens. They thrive best in a light sandy soil. Increased 
by carefully-made divisions, or by seed. 
E. alpinum (alpine).* A. in oblong heads ; involucre, along with 
the upper part of the herb and the flowers, of a beautiful blue 
colour. July and August. J, radical and lower cauline ones on 
long petioles, — serrate- toothed ; upper cauline ones 
— lobed, cil — leaves of the nvolucre ten to 
woe , rather soft, a little longer than the head of flowers. 
h. lift, "to 2ft. Europe, 1597. Hardy. (B. M. 922.) 
E. amethystinum ——— — amethyst colour, in 
globose heads, July and A h janes pinna innatifid; lobes 
oat, —— somewhat pinnatifi Stems smooth h, * 
at the apex; ewes "of the roneo seven 
lanceolate, furnished with a few teeth at the base nach ex- 
ee ar. length the head of flowers. h. itt to 2ft. Europe, 
E. —— Aig mera Jl. white or ay e blue, in globose 
heads. July to ees l. broadly linear, with parallel 
—— remotely s osely ciliate ; lower leaves rather ensiform ; 
upper ones la: —— ; leaves of the involucre eight to 
—— shorter — tlio h * g flowers. h. 2ft. to m a orth 
—— pris —— y. SYN. E. yuccenfolium. (B. R. 
rg —— bluish, in a hepa om heads. June to 
ay gs oan lobes pinnatifid or 
` cut in a forked ct ate beeen he ony 
much longer invejucro, to — of flowers. Stems simple, a 
m 
branched at the apex. À. 1ft. to aft, Pyrenees, 1731. hay. 
— d). — omes A in roundish heads. July aad 
y ternate; segments pinnatifid 
lobes ovate ps auriculated i leaves of involucre i 
——— mag rE reeg he heads of flowers. Stem pani- — 
cled. h. lft. — Europe, &c. — (Sy. En, B. 570.). 
E. dichotomum (spreading). jl. blue, in globose heads. July 
wr — cal ones — Marr yy a — g 
$ ed; cauline ones ma s : 
— -toothed ; leaves of * ucre pr ae tee much than 
e heads of flowers. k. lft. to 4 — Euro 1820. 
Hardy. E. Lasseauzii (R. H. 1874, 375) is y allied to 
E. Gihotomem, but the — of red ii -purple flowers is loose. 
E. —— vory). jl. w ; panicle ppc ere ge 
Autumn. l, radical ones * to rsp in —— a 
cauliné ones broad. A. 6ft. rdy. s 
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