ELICHRYSUM, 



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ENKIANTHUS. 



moderately dry, as too much moisture 

 at tlie roots is apt to make the leaflets 

 turn yellow and drop off. The species 

 are all natives of New Zealand ; and, 

 on their first introduction, they were 

 supposed to belong to the genus 

 Sophora. They are propagated by 

 cuttings, in sand, under a bell-glass. 

 The handsomest species is Edicdrd- 

 sia Macnahidna. 



Egg PLA^"T. — Solanum Melon- 

 gena, L. — A tender annual, nearly 

 allied to the Tomato, the fruit of 

 which, when white, greatly resembles 

 an egg. There are some varieties 

 with violet- coloured, and some with 

 dark-purple fruit. All the kinds are 

 eatable, if dressed like the Tomato. 

 The seed should be sown in light 

 rich earth, on a hotbed, in February 

 or March, and the young plants 

 pricked out into pots, and shifted 

 several times, till they are ready to 

 flower. They may then be removed 

 to the hothouse or greenhouse ; but 

 they will not ripen their fruit without 

 a good deal of heat. 



El^ea'gnus. — ElceagnacecB. --The 

 Oleaster, or Wild Olive. Ciu-ious- 

 looking low trees, or shrubs, with j 

 bluish-green leaves, covered with a 

 white silky down, that gives them a 

 silvery look in the sunbeams. The 

 flowers are small and tube-shaped ; 

 they are of a pale yellow, and rather 

 fragrant. The fruit resembles the 

 Olive in shape, and is of a dark reddish 

 brown. There are only two hardy 

 species, one of which is a native of 

 the Levant, and the other of 

 America ; they both require a light 

 rich soil, and a somewhat sheltered 

 situation ; and they are both propa- 

 gated by seeds or cuttings. The 

 Nepal species require a greenhouse. 



Elder.— See Sambcj'cus. 



Elephant's Foot. — See Testu- 



DINARIA. 



Elichry'sum.- 



-See Helichry^- 



Elsho'ltzia. — Lahiatce. -A plant 

 of no beauty, the flowers of which 

 somewhat resemble those of the 

 common ]\Iint, but are smaller and 

 less conspicuous. The plant is only 

 noticed here from the resemblance of 

 its name to that of the Eschscholtzia, 

 which induced Dr. Lindley to propose 

 to change the name of the latter genus 

 to Chryseis ; in the same way as it 

 was proposed to change the name of 

 the Dahlia onaccountof its similarity 

 to Dalea. As, however, the German 

 names are found to be quite as distinct 

 as Dahl and Dale, the Eschscholtzia 

 retains its appellation. 



Embo'thrium. — Protacecc. — A 

 very handsome evergreen shrub with 

 racemes of bright scarlet tubular 

 flowers. A native of the Straits of 

 ]\Iagellan, whence it was introduced 

 in 1853. 



E'mpetrum. — Empetrece. — The 

 Crow Berry. — Little heath-like 

 plants, with pretty flowers and very 

 showy berries, adapted for growing 

 on rockwork. They should be grown 

 in peat-soil, and kept rather dry. 



Enchanter's Nightshade. — See 

 Circ^'a. 



Endogens. — Monocotyledonous 

 plants. The trees belonging to this 

 division, such as the Palms, Tree 

 Ferns, &e., increase veiy little in 

 thickness as they advance in age ; but 

 their wood becomes gradually more 

 solid, by the woody fibres formed 

 every year in the interior of their 

 stems. Trees of this kind have no 

 medullary rays, and their trunks, 

 when cut down, show none of those 

 marks of the successive layers of wood 

 which are so conspicuous in exogenous 

 trees. 



Enkia'nthus. Ericacece. 



Greenhouse shrubs, with very hand- 

 some arbutus-like pink and white 

 flowers, which are i^roduced from 

 September to February. The plants 

 are very difficult to manage. They 



