ERANTHIS. 



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become too dry. There is a pink- 

 flowered variety, whicli Avas raised 

 by the late Mr. Milne, of Stoke 

 Newington. 



Epilo'bium. — Onagrdcece . — The 

 French "Willow-Herb. — A tall sho^-y 

 perennial, with stoloniferous roots, 

 only suited to a shrubbery. It re- 

 quires no care in its culture ; the 

 only difficulty being to prevent its 

 overpowering everything else, when 

 it is once ]ilanted in any situation not 

 exceedingly dry. There are several 

 wild species of Epilobium common 

 in Britain, one of which is called by 

 the odd name of Codlings-and-Cream. 

 E. alpinum is a pretty little plant for 

 rock-woi'k. 



Epipht'llum. — CactacecB. -One 

 of the genera formed out of the 

 Linn!:ean genus Cactus, by Mr. Ha- 

 worth, and comprising those Cacti 

 that produce their flowers on their 

 leaves. The genus Epiphyllum is, 

 however, now given up, and the plants 

 in it are called Cereus by botanists. 

 E. truncahcm, and E. speciosum, two 

 of the best known species of this 

 division of Cacti, are, however, still 

 generally called by their original 

 names of Cdctustvuncata,2indL Cactus 

 speciosa. Both species are abundant 

 flowerers, and require only greenhouse 

 heat. Cactus truncata will grow 

 grafted on almost any other species, 

 and it will bear other species grafted 

 on it. For culture, see Ce'reus. 



ERA'NTHEMUii. — A canthcicecB. — 

 Stove shrubs with very ornamental 

 flowers, which in some of the species 

 are of a bright blue, in others purple, 

 as in E. montauum, and in others 

 white, as in E. albifldruvi. 



ERA'^"THIS. — Ranunculacece. — 

 The modern botanic name of the 

 Winter Aconite. The Linnsean name 

 oiih\?,^\^nivfQ.^HeUehnrushyemaUs. 

 This plant has a creeping under- 

 ground fleshy stem, which sends up 

 shoots from every bud ; and when it 



is wished to propagate it by division, 

 the young plants or suckers must 

 be taken up with a portion of this 

 tuberous undergrouncl stem attached, 

 or they will not grow ; and when 

 they are planted, it should be in 

 rather a dry, open situation, and they 

 should not be too much watered, or 

 the wounded tuberous part will decay. 

 The plant may also be propagated by 

 seeds, which it ripens abundantly, 

 but which do not flower till the I 

 second year. When the plant is to i 

 be divided, it should be done in ! 

 June, or as soon as the leaves have 

 withered, as otherwise the plant will 

 wither from the decay of the tuberous 

 part. When once established, the 

 Winter Aconite spreads rapidly, and 

 generally appears to change its posi- 

 tion every year, as the flowers come 

 up singly, and often far apart from 

 each other, springing from buds in 

 the underground stem, which in some 

 situations grows to a great length, and 

 prodiices few buds, when of course 

 the flowers come up far apart ; while 

 in warm, open, and dry places, the 

 tuberous stem being short and full of 

 buds, the flowers appeiir in a cluster. 



Eremurus. — Aspholodca'. — A 

 very handsome perennial plant, which 

 produces its long racemes of sulphur- 

 coloured flowers, with large bright 

 orange anthers, in the open air in 

 June. It is a native of Siberia. 



Eri^ca. — Ericacece. — The differ- j 

 ent species of Heaths are among the | 

 most beautiful of our greenhouse I 

 plants, and are much more easily { 

 grown than is generally supposed, j 

 The principal cause of so many 

 failui-es is, first, that Heaths are 

 generally potted much too low, and 

 thus the collar of the plant is fre- 

 quently rotted ; secondly, that suffi- 

 cient attention is not paid to watering, 

 as sometimes they are allowed to be 

 sodden with moisture, from the pots 

 being improperly di-ained, and at 



