Ep-iph-yl’-lum Ay 
Ep-ip-rem’-num 
e-punct-a’-ta ... 
eq-uis-e’-tif-ol’-i-a ... 
eg’-uit-ans .. 
E-ranth’-em-um Per 
e-rec’-tus 4e So 
Er-i-a ... sah see 
er-l-an’-tha 
Er-i’-ca 
Er i-ca’-ce- ... 
er-i-co-i’-des ... 
Er-i’-noc-ar’-pus 
Er‘-i ob-ot’-ry-a o 
er’j-0c-ar’-pum 
er-i-9c-eph-al-us 
Er’-i-od-en’-dron 
Er’-i-og-lo' -ssum 
Er’-i-ol-z’-na os 
er’i-op-et’-al-a ee 
Er-i-os-té-mon vee 
e-r0’-sa 
er-ub-es’-cens_ 
Er-ye’tibe_.... “ne 
Er-yth-ri’-na bor 
er-yth’-roc-ar’-pa 
Er-yth-rop’-al-um 
Er-yth-rox’-yl-on ... 
Es-cal-lo’-ni-a wee 
es-cul-en’-ta 
eu-a-la’-ta 
Eu-cal-yp’-tus 
Ku-ge’-ni-a ... one 
eu-ge’-ni-o-i’-dés_... 
Eu-0’-nym-us ees 
Eu-pkor’-bi-a 
PRONUNCIATION AND DERIVATION. 45 
Dpi, phiillon (Greek), on, leaf; (all:) flowers arise from flat 
leaf-like branches (N. 1/515); 
Ept premnon (Greek), on, trunk; (all: ) plants root on the 
trunks of trees (N. 1/517) ; 
(Latin), without points, or glandular, often translucent, dots - 
(Lutin), with leaves like Horse tail plant (Equisetam, [from 
equus, seta (Latin) horse, stiff hair |); 
(Latin), equitant, when conduplicate parts overlap each other 
parallelly and entirely without any involution ; 
érdo, athémon (Greek), I long for, flower; (all :) beauty of 
the blossoms (N.1/518); @r, anthiman (Greek), Spring- 
time flower, the time of flowering being January, February, 
and March (Br. 173); the latter seems more correct, other- 
wise the first syllable would be short, and not long, as 
marked by Nicholson; 
(Latin), upright ; 
rion (Greek), wool; (all: ) downiness of the leaves of some 
species (N. 1/519) ; the flowers are woolly, not the leaves, as 
suggested by Nicholson; 
(Greek), woolly flowered ; 
(Latin), name for the plant used by Pliny, from erika, 
(Greek), name used by Theophrastus (N. 1/519); second 
syllable often wrongly pronounced short (N. 4/352) ; 
(Latin), Heath (erica) Family or Order; 
(Greek), resembling Heath (erica) ; 
Erinos, karpos (Greek), hedgehcg, fruit; (all:) spinous nuts, 
(Ch.) ; 
Erion botriis (Greek), wool, bunch of grages; (all:) woolliness 
of the plant with frnit in thyrsoid panicles ; . 
(Greek), woolly fruited ; 
(Greek), with a woolly head of dowers ; 
Erion, dzndron (Greek), wool, tree; {ali:) silk cotton in the 
capsule (N. 1/527); 
Erion. glossa (Greek), wool, tongue; (all.:) hairy hooded scale 
on the petals ;_ 
érion, laina (Greek), wool, gauze; (all :) woolly bracteoles 
(Greek), woolly petalled ; 
Erion, stemon (Greek), wool stamen; (all:) stamens woolly ; 
(N.1/528) ; 
(Latin), erose, a8 if nibbled at the tip; 
(Latin), growing reddish, blueish ; 
eruko (Greek), to hinder ; (all :) properties as a climber ; 
Eriithros, Ginadi (Greek), red, to be ; (all:) colour of the flowers, 
(N. 1/53); 
(Greek;, red fruited ; 
éruthros, palin (Greek), reddish at the back; (all:) ultimately 
reflexed epicarn. or calyx, of the fruit ; ; 
ériuthros, cilon (Greek), reddish, wood; (all:) wood a reddish 
brown (N. 1/533) ; 
(com.) Escallon, Spanish traveller in 8. America, found the 
first species of this genus (N. 1/533). 
(Latin), fit for food ; ‘ 
(hybrid), Ew (Greek), alata (Latin) well winged ; 
Eu, kalupto (Greek), well, to cover as witha lid; (all:) calyx 
limb, covering the flower before expansion, afterwa)ds falls 
off in one piece (N. 1/535) ; 
(com.) Prince Eugene of Savoy, patron of Botany (N. 1/5%#8) ; 
(quasi-Greek), resembling Eugenia ; 
Euonimos (Greek), lucky: name used hy Theophrastus 
(N. 1/529, 352); second syllabie is long, and has nothing. 
to do with the Greek word for name (Gndma) ; 
(com.) Ewphorbus, physician to king Juba of Maritania; name 
used in Greek by Dioscorides and in Latin by Pliny 
(N. 1/540) ; 
