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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Erigeron—continued. 
E. hybridus roseus (pink hybrid). A garden hybrid between 
i. PNR GIer and EF, Villarsii. 1896. & H. 1896, p. 301, f. 26.) 
E. macranthus (large-flowered).* /l.-heads blue or purple, with 
a yellow eye, few on simple peduncles, but freely produced, 
smaller than in FE. speciosum. August. J. thickish, reticulated, 
glabrous, with hispid-ciliated margins, obtuse; upper ones 
about lin. long and sin. broad. Stem leafy to the summit. 
North America. Hardy perennial. 
E. maximus (largest). _/l.-heads purplish, solitary at the tips of 
the peduncles; rays in two series. Summer. /. amplexicaul, 
dentate-serrated; radical ones long-lanceolate; upper ones 
cordate-lanceolate, acuminate. Mexico, 1830. Half-hardy 
perennial. Syn. Leptostelma maximum (S. B. F. G., 
ser. ii., t. 38.) 
E. mucronatus (mucronate).* _/l.-heads pedunculate; involucral 
scales linear, subulate, puberulous; rays white, biseriate, twice 
as long as the disk. Summer and autumn. J. lanceolate, 
attenuated at base, ciliated, entire, or lobed or toothed above 
the middle. h. 6in. to 12in. Stem terete, branched. Mexico. 
Half-hardy perennial. Syn. EF. quercifolius. 
E. philadelphicus (Philadelphian). _fl.-heads pale reddish- 
purple or flesh-coloured, rather small, corymbose; rays in- 
numerable. June to August. /. membranous, ciliated ; lower- 
most ones spathulate, oblong, tapering to a slender base or 
margined petiole, the midrib whitish ; upper ones amplexicaul 
and mostly cordate at base. 4h. 1ft. to 2ft. North America, 
1778. Hardy perennial. 
E. pulchellus (rather pretty). 
casicus, 
E. quercifolius (Oak-leaved). A synonym of EH. mucronatus. 
E. Roylei is probably identical with FE. alpinus semibarbata. 
E. salsuginosus (salt-marsh-loving). The correct name of Aster 
salsuginosus. 
E. speciosus superbus (superb).* A fine garden variety, with 
much larger blossoms than in the type, and freely produced. 
1889. (Gn. xxxvi., p. 377.) 
E. strigosus (strigose).* /l.-heads white, in loose corymbs; rays 
about twice the length of the involucre. June to August. 
1. entire or slightly serrated; lower ones ovate or spathulate ; 
upper ones scattered, lanceolate, oblanceolate, or linear. h. 1ft. 
to 3ft. North America. Hardy annual or biennial. 
E. Villarsii (Villars’).* .-heads purple; rays twice as long as 
the disk. July. 2. lanceolate, scabrid, sessile. Stem erect, 
pubescent, racemose at apex; branchlets one-headed, longer 
than the leaves. fA. lft. Europe, 1804. Hardy perennial. Syn. 
E. atticus. 
ERINACEA (from erinaceus, a hedgehog; in allusion 
to the spiny character of the plant). Orp. Leguminose. A 
monotypic genus. The species, H. pungens (Syn. E. his- 
panica) was formerly classed under Anthyllis, and will be 
found under the name A. Erinacea on p. 87, Vol. I. 
Calyx membanons, with short teeth ; petals long-clawed, 
the lower claw adnate to the staminal tube ; peduncles two- 
or three-flowered; bracts and bracteoles small, leafy. 
Pods oblong, glandular-villous, two-valved. Leaves silky, 
nue tcholate or digitately trifoliolate. Branches often 
leafless. 
ERINEUM PADI. See Plum—Insect Pests. 
ERINEUM TILIACEUM. See Tilia—Insects. 
ERINEUM VITIS. See Vine—Animal Pests. 
ERINUS. About eight species are now referred to this 
genus, mostly natives of South Africa, HE. lychnideus is 
now referred to Zaluzianskia. 
ERIOCALIA. A synonym of Actinotus (which 
The correct name of E. cau- 
see). 
ERIOCAMPA LIMACINA. See Sawflies and 
Slugworms. 
ERIOCAMPA ROSZ. Sce Rose Sawflies. 
Ta ea A synonym of Montanoa (which 
see). 
ERIOCAULON. The following are other synonyms of 
this genus: Chxtodiscus, Electrosperma, Lasiolepis, Leuco- 
cephala, and Nasmythia. 
ERIOCEPHALUS (from erion, wool, and kephale, a 
head; the heads become yery woolly after flowering). 
Orv. Composite. A genus embracing seventeen species of 
greenhouse, evergreen, much-branched, rigid, mostly silky 
or silvery, scented shrubs, confined to Sonth Africa. 
Flower-heads racemose, umbellate or solitary, sub-globose, 
heterogamous; ray florets whitish, in one series; disk 
yellow or purple ; invyoluere double, the outer part consisting 
Eviocephalus—continued. 
of four or fiye bracts, the inner campanulate, densely 
woolly. Leaves usually small, often fascicled, entire or 
rarely three-lobed at apex. Three of the species have been 
introduced, but the following is the only one now in 
cultivation, It thrives in a compost of sandy loam and a 
little peat, and may be propagated by cuttings of young 
shoots, inserted in sand, under a hand-glass. 
E. africanus (African). /.-heads white, umbellate at the tips 
of the branches. January to March. /. opposite or tufted, 
silky-pubescent, thickish, obtuse, jin. to lin. long, linear or 
trifid, channelled. 1731. (B. M. 833.) 
ERIOCNEMA. E. znea, FE. marmorata, and E. 
Sandere are synonymous with Bertolonia marmorata. 
ERIODENDRON. Ceiba is synonymous with this 
genus. 
ERIOGONUM. Syn. Espinosa. To the species 
described on p. 527, Vol. I., the following should be 
added : 
E. Haussknechtii (Haussknecht’s). This is described as a 
singular species with yellow flowers, native of the Washington 
territory. 1891. 
E. stellatum is a form of E. wmbellatum. 
E. umbellatum. The variety Si/eri is an improved form. 
ERIOPAPPUS. A synonym of Layia (which see). 
ERIOPHORUM. Syn. Linagrostis. . To the species 
described on p. 527, Vol. I., the following should be added : 
E. latifolium (broad-leaved). fe spikelets two to ten or more 
in a terminal umbel; glumes olive-green, lanceolate. Summer. 
1. few, flat, mostly radical, much shorter than the stem, more or 
less triangular; those on the stem often very short. Stems 
tufted, slender, about lft. high. eurepe (Britain), North 
America, &c. Some authorities class this as a variety of 
E. polstyachion. 
ERIOPSIS. Flowers showy, pedicellate; sepals 
equal, spreading, free, or the lateral ones connate with the 
foot of the column in a very short chin; petals similar to 
the sepals; lip affixed to the foot of the column, shortly 
incumbent, at length erect, the lateral lobes broad, erect, 
loosely enfolding the column, the middle one small, 
spreading, entire or two-lobed; column rather long, 
incuryed; pollen masses two. Leaves usually two, long, 
ample. To the species described on p. 528, Vol. I., the 
following should be added: 
E. Helenz (Helen’s). ji. resembling those of E. biloba, but much 
larger; stems 14ft. long, many-flowered. J. linear-lanceolate.™ 
Pseudo-bulbs 16in. high. Peru, 1897. This is described as 
“without any doubt the prettiest of the genus.” 
E. Sprucei (Dr. Spruce’s). 7., sepals and petals light yellow, the 
latter with red borders ; side lobes of the lip whitish, dotted red, 
nearly circular, the middle one lemon-yellow, with mauve spots 
at the base of the broad stalk, transversely elliptic, the disk 
white, with two acute horns on the middle; raceme long, 
cylindrical. 7. cuneate-oblong, acute. Amazons, 1884. 
ERIOSPERMUM. This genus now embraces up- 
wards of thirty species. Flowers whitish or tinged with 
green, yellow, or claret-purple, in simple racemes ; perianth 
campanulate, the segments distinct; stamens six; pedicels 
solitary. Leaves usually solitary, produced after the 
flowers. Rootstock large and tuberons. In addition to the 
species described on p. 528, Vol. I., the following have been 
introduced, but they are of little horticultural value: 
E. albucoides, E. brevipes, and EF. calcaratum., 
ERIOSTEMON. To the species, &c., described on 
p. 528, Vol. I., the following should be added: 
E. cuspidatus (cusp-pointed). A synonym of E. myoporoides. 
E. intermedius is synonymous with EF. myoporoides minor. 
E. myoporoides minor (lesser). 
E. intermedius. 
E. neriifolius is identical with E. myoporoides. 
obovalis (obovate). #. rather smaller than in Z. buwifolius; 
icels axillary, one-flowered. 7. obcordate, obovate, or oblong- 
spathulate, very obtuse or truncate, rarely attaining 4in. in 
length, much narrowed at base and often petiolate. h. 2ft. to 3ft. 
New South Wales, &c. Of this species there is a double-flowered 
form, flore-pleno (G. C. 1888, iii., p. 85), 
E. pulchellus (rather pretty). A garden hybrid. 
ERIOSTOMUM. A synonym of Stachys (which 
see). 
The correct name of 
