Cyclopedia of American Horticulture 



EARTH NUT, EARTH PEA. English names for the 

 Peanut, or Goober, Arachis hypogaea. Also Apios. 



EATdNIA (Amos Eaton, American botanist, 1770- 

 1842; author of popular Manual of Botany of the United 

 States, which was for a long time the (inly general work 

 available for American students). Grnminew. A 

 North American genus of 4 or 5 species of tufted per 

 ennial grasses. Three kinds have been catalogued by 

 Wilfred Brotherton, Rochester, Mich. 



A. Panicle dense, spike-tike, strict. 



0btus4ta, Gray. Spikelets crowded on the short, 

 erect panicle-branches : upper empty glume rounded 

 obovate, very obtuse. Dry soil. 



AA. Panicte more toose and slender. 



PennsylvAnica, Gray. Lvs. 3-G in. long : panicle- 

 branchc lax nodding Moist woods and meado s 



Dudleyi \ asev Lvs I'm long panicle 1 rtnche-, 

 spre diug lu tlowering time afterwards ere t 



\ S Hitch o k 



EBONY n o ijio!, Eb i 



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ECCREMOCABPUS (Greek, pendent fruits). Big- 

 nonidcem. Three to five species of tall, somewhat woody 

 plants from Peru and Chile, climbing by branched ten- 

 drils at the end of the twice pinnate leaves, and having 

 very distinct flowers of somewhat tubular shape, which 

 are colored yellow, orange or scarlet. The species men- 

 tioned below is doubtless perennial in southern Califor- 

 nia, where it is said to show best when climbing over 

 shrubbery, but in the East it is treated as a tender an- 

 nual and is perhaps usually trained to a trellis or south 

 wall. It bears flowers and fruits at the same time, and 

 the orange flowers make an effective contrast with the 

 pale green foliage. The genus belongs to an order fa- 

 mous for its superb tropical climbers, but in its own 



that small T 

 2 celled ovarv 

 Eccremo, u pu- 



scaber K n i^ Pav (Cnldmpelis scdber, D Don) 

 A.lth ii_li tilt s| . ihc name means rough, the wild plant 

 IS uuU ^piiiiii^h puberulous, and m cultivation entirely 

 glabrous. About 10 ft. high: lvs. bipmnate; Ifts. ob- 

 liquely cordate, entire or saw-toothed : fls. 1 in. long, 

 orange, in racemes. July, Aug. Chile. B.R. 11:939. 

 Peter Henderson & Co. 

 ECHEVfiRIA A.1I referred to Cotjledon 

 ECHINACEA r ek c 7 n he Igeho" all 1 1 n" ti 



g feature f P 1 nv e Th i k i onl 



tirst but bee me egg I ape 1 and the recei 



1 while R 1 11 eckia has a greater lange tl c 



n globose to col iiunar and the receptacle from 



744. Ecballium Elaterium (X >^) 



conical to cylindrical. Echinaceas and Rudbeckias are 

 stout, and perhaps a little coarse in appearance, but 

 their flowers, sometimes 6 in. across, are \erj attractive, 

 and borne in succession for two months or more of late 

 summer. With the growing appreciation o hardy bor- 

 ders and of native jilauts. it should be possible to 

 procure 4 or 5 distinct colors in the flower, associated 

 with low, medium and tall-growing habits. They do well 



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