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EGG-BEARING GOURD. See Cucurbita Pepo 
ovifera and Vegetable Marrow. | 
EGG PLANT. See Aubergine. 
of much discussion, both as to its exact meaning, and 
as.to the shrub to which it belongs." The Eglantine of 
Gerard, Parkinson, and some of the other old writers, is, 
no doubt, Rosa rubiginosa, our common Sweetbriar. The 
“twisted Eglantine” of Milton is “supposed to have 
meant the Woodbine (Lonicera Periclymenum), which is 
‘still known as Eglantine in North-east Yorkshire" (Prior). 
YPTIAN 
. Nelumbium speciosum. 
 EGYPTIAN LOTUS. See Nymphea Lotus. 
EHRETIA (named after G. D. Ehret, an artist and 
botanist, born in Germany 1708, died in England 1770). 
TRIBE Ehretiee of Овр. Boraginem. Handsome stove or 
greenhouse evergreen trees or shrubs. Flowers usually 
White, small, in eorymbose cymes or terminal panieles ; 
small, deeply five-parted; corolla salver-shaped, 
with a five-parted limb. Leaves petiolate, alternate, oppo- 
‚ от three in а whorl, entire or serrated. They thrive 
in a compost of loam and peat. Cuttings will root in 
d; panicles terminal, sot com ў . 4. oblong- 
West тнк, ее еб нафа Sons T asi 
EHREETIEZE. A tribe of the order Boraginee. 
EICHHORNIA (named in honour of J. A. Е. Eich- 
horn, an eminent Prussian). ORD. Pontederiacem. In- 
teresting and beautiful stove aquatics, natives of South 
America and tropical Africa. They may be placed in 
large pots, filled with rather coarse rich soil, . which 
liin. long, 
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acute-stalked ; stalk much thickened at 
(B. M. 2932, under name of 
‘Stems often severa 
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EKEBERGIA (named in honour of Charles Gustavus 
eberg, captain of a Swedish East Indiaman, who took 
ШИ ы io China for the purposes of making inquirica 
natural history). ORD. Мейасет. A genus of about 
Species of fine greenhouse evergreen trees, from 
and Southern Africa. For culture, see 
EGLANTINE. “А name that has been the subject 
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OF HORTICULTURE. 
Ekebergia —ontinued. - iiu 
E. вар И: ite. ^ а i 
four or fe а a elliptical" pi ees к 
Cape of Good Hope, 1789. A large tree. 2 
ELIEAGNACEZE. A small order of trees or 
more or less covered with minute silvery or brown 
seales. Flowers white or yellow, regular, one or two- 
sexual, axillary, fascicled ог cymose. Leaves alternate or 
opposite, exstipulate, entire. The order is represented in 
Britain by Hippophüe rhamnoides, the Sea Buckthorn, a 
врїпу shrub, thriving well near the sea. There are three 
genera, Eleagnus, Hippophüe and Shepherdia, and about 
twenty species. à 
ELJEAGNUS (from Elaios, the Olive; and Agnos, the 
Vitex Agnus-castus; the Eleagnos of Theophrastus is the 
Willow). Oleaster,or Wild Olive. ORD. Eleagnacee. Very 
ornamental, deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees. 
Flowers axillary, clustered or solitary; perianth campanu- 
late or salver-shaped. Leaves simple, alternate. They 
grow freely in any ordinary soil that is tolerably dry, and 
may be readily increased by seeds, layers or cuttings. 
E. argentea (silvery). jl. yellow, aggregate, nodding, axillary. — 
July. us rs T. roundish-ovate, covered with silver scales, 
ribbed, wing oval-oblon r j 
rather acute, КОШ on both 
surfaces, and covered with Ыбу scales, A. 8ft. to 1216. North 
America, 1813. (W. D. B. ii. 161.) е 
E. crispa (curled). А synonym of E. longipes. ` З 
E. glabra (glabrous) Л. whitish, sub-solitary in the axils of the 
leaves. Autumn. 4. ovate-oblong, acuminate, evergreen ; adult 
ones green above, clothed below with rusty-coloured scales. А. 
Sft. to6ft. Japan. There are very pretty variegated forms of this 
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