DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERS, 207 
D. Canariénse.—Balm of Gilead.—This plant smells 
of citron, especially when rubbed between the fingers. 
Sown on a hot-bed early in spring, it may be planted out 
in the borders like other tender annuals. Flowers pale- 
blue or purple; from July to September; three feet high ; 
From the Canaries. 
ECCREMOCARPUS. 
{From the Greek words meaning suspended fruit.] 
Eccremocarpus scaber.— Rough Eccremocarpus. — 
This, which is sometimes called Calampelis, is a beautiful 
climber, a tender perennial, which flowers the first year. 
The flowers are produced in panicles or racemes, are of a 
bright orange color; it flowers profusely the latter part 
of the summer, but it is necessary to start the plants very 
early in a hot-bed, and when the plants have five or six 
leaves, they should be transplanted into pots, and turned 
into the ground in June. The seeds are difficult to vege- 
tate. Properly speaking, it is a green-house plant. 
ECHIN ACEA,—Conz-Fiowen. 
[Name from the Greek for Hedgeboy, in allusion the spiny chaff of the disk.] 
Echinacea purptirea.—Purple Cone-flower.—A native 
of Ohio and other western States, and formerly called 
Rudbeckia purpurea. It grows from three to four feet 
high, and has a rough stem and leaves. The disk of the 
flower is very rich, appearing in the sun of a golden 
crimson; the rays are purple, in some varieties whitish, 
and one to two inches long. A hardy perennial, easily 
propagated by division of the root. 
