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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Earwigs—continued. 
used effectively. In all cases, the traps must be frequently 
examined, and the enemy shaken out into a vessel con- 
taining boiling water. 
EBENACEZE. A natural order of trees or shrubs, 
containing about six genera and some 250 species, natives, 
for the most part, of warm regions. Flowers hermaphro- 
dite, or staminate and pistillate; calyx three to seven- 
cleft, persistent; corolla three to seven-cleft. Leaves 
alternate, rarely opposite, entire, coriaceous, exstipulate. 
Some of the trees of this order "furnish valuable timber, 
the heart-wood of several species consti- 
tuting the ebony of commerce. Me best- 
known genera are: Diospyros, Euclea, Maba, m 
. Royena, and Tetraclis. © 7, 
EBENUS (from ebenos, ebony). Овр. e 
Leguminose. А genus of about eight species 
of elegant little herbs or sub-shrubs, chiefly 
confined to the Mediterranean region and 52 
Asia Minor, though one species is found as 4 
far east as Beloochistan. Flowers pink, in f$ * 
dense spikes or round heads; peduncles 
axillary or terminal. Leaves usually un- 
equally pinnate, made up of three to five 
pairs of lance-shaped leaflets, though in a 
few they are digitate or simple. For culture, ` &0., see 
Anthyllis. 
E. койо», (Cretan). reddish or le, vate. d 
fa Pak in o "€ a 
(Ишан wit with two pairs ror lentes 
; Stipules connected, 
and De D bifid at the : 
to 2ft. ft. Candia, 1737. S cand opposite the leaves. A. lit. 
) 
кн irn SYN. Anthyllis cretica. 
E. pinnata (pinnate). A synonym of E. Sibthorpii, 
E. Sibthorpii (Sib thorp’s).* spikes ; 
er se about equal in inc prae шн. bracts three > == 
likean involre at ips as base of each head 
of of towers i or five pairs of ases 
m 'clothed with эр. ‘Mounts ro bi, 
Parnassus. Herbaceous. — és (5. Е. С. 740.) 
EBERMAIERA (amod in honour of Karl H 
_ Ebermaier, 1767-1825, a German writer on ipe sean 
plants). ORD. Acanthacew. A genus of about thirty 
. species of stove herbs, widely di: 
the tropical regions of both 
E. nitida (shining), ue. SÉ Ё , convex. h. Ain. Brazil, 
1879. A ous little plant, resemb Fittonia 
ЕА nitidum. — Р Ж babit. SYN. 
EBONY. See Diospyros pa 
EBRACTEATE. Withont bracts, М 
ECBALLIUM (from ekballein, to cast ont; the seed 
are violently ejected from the ripe cow: Squirting 
Cucumber. Orv. Cucurbitacee. A ve annual. For 
_ cultivation, see Gourds. 
E. Elaterium rting). Л. yellow, erect. Yet 
. duneles. June. e ec td litis ded D 
cordate, somewhat lobed, crenate- 
M RERUM. Vapi, end iucecet EMEND 
| scabrous, id, and glaucescen! 
known as ea a ful catha 
SYN. od ba. Elateri um. — Esp 
ECCREMOCARPUS (from ekkremes, pendent, and 
fruit; in allusion to the fruit). Ox 
ame ТЩ 
Mareh, in a gentle heat, and epe 1o 
during the latter part of the same year. ой 
Eccremocarpus—continued. 
E. orus (long-flowered).* fl., corolla yellow, with a green 
a te gg a little arched ; ; peduncles pendulous, opposite the 
leaves, many-flowered. July. oppisi, abruptly bi-tripinnate ; 
leaflets oval, entire, sessile. ' Peru, 1825 
oy 
Fic. 686. SPRAYS OF ECCREMOCARPUS SCABER in Flower and Fruit. 
E. scaber (rough)* fl., corolla scarlet or deep orange-red, with 
a ventricose throat ; racemes opposite the leaves, 
secund, many-flowered. July, August. l. opposite, petiolàte, ——— ^ 
abruptly bipinnate ; leaffets (жы: T" ely ri ae ovate, 
serrated orentire. Stems angular, hairy. hili, 182 А useful 
T Calampelis 
plant for covering walls, ont and pillars, 
scabra. See Fig. 686. (В. R. 9 
ECHARDIA. A synonym of Peristeria. 
Included under Cotyledon. 
ECHEVERIA. 
Fr Р RPUREA INTERMEDIA, sho Habit 
в. 687. Ecursacta р U b end. , showing 
ECHIDNIUM (from echidnion, a young viper; in allu- 
sion to its relationship to Dracontium). ORD.. Araceæ. 
ES genus of a. eouple of species of stove tuberous-rooted 
ineluded under Dracontium by Bentham and 
Hooker. For culture, see Anchomanes. : 
