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ELLEANTHUS. Evelyna. 



ELLEBORE BLANC. (Fr.) Teratrum 

 album. 



ELLEETONIA. A Malabar climber, 

 forming a genus of Apocynacece, distin- 

 guished from Alstonia and Blaberopus 

 chiefly in having peltate seeds expanded 

 at each end into a broad membranous wing. 



ELLIOTTIA. A genus of Cyrillaceoz con- 

 taining a North American shrub with alter- 

 nate entire leaves and terminal racemes. 

 Flowers with a four-parted calyx, a very 

 deeply six-parted corolla, eight stamens 

 with ' glandular filaments, and a four- 

 celled ovary and capsule. [J. T. S.] 



ELLIPEIA cuneifolia, the only species 

 of the genus, is a climbing shrub, native of 

 Malacca, and belonging to the order Ano- 

 nacece, in which it is distinguished by the 

 following characteristics : — petals over- 

 lapping one another in the bud; carpels 

 oblique, distinct one from another, and 

 each having a single ovule attached to the 

 ventral suture. [M. T. M.] 



ELLIPSOIDAL. A solid with an ellipti- 

 cal figure. 



ELLIPTIC. A flat body, which is oval 

 and acute at each end. 



ELLISIA. A genus of Hydrophyllacece, 

 containing six species of North American 

 branching annual herbs, with opposite or 

 alternate oblong and pinnatisectleaves.and 

 white flowers on solitary peduncles, oppo- 

 site the leaves below, and in loose racemes 

 above. The calyx is five-parted, without 

 reflexed appendages to the sinuses ; the 

 corolla tubular, campanulate and caducous, 

 with ten small scales in the tube; the 

 stamens included ; the nectary surrounding 

 the ovary, and rising into five gland-like 

 teeth ; and the capsule ovoid-globose with 

 four seeds. This genus scarcely differs from 

 Xemophila, except in wanting the appen- 

 dages to the calycine sinuses. [W. CJ 



ELLOBOCARPUS. Ceratopteris. 



ELM. The common name for Ulmus. 

 — of New South Wales. Epicarpurus 

 orientalis. — , SPANISH. Cordia Geras- 

 clirrnthHs, or Geraschanthus vulgaris; also 

 said to be applied to Hamelia ventricosa. 

 — WYCH or WITCH. Ulmus montana. 



ELODE A. A genus of Hypericaceee, differ- 

 ing from Hypericum only in having scale- 

 like glands alternating with the bundles of 

 stamens. Hypericum Elodes,'srhieh isfound 

 in various parts of Britain, is referred to 

 this genus ; and there are a few European 

 and Western Asiatic species, and two found 

 in the United States. Most of these are 

 perennial smooth pea-green herbs, with 

 opposite shortly stalked or sessile ellipti- 

 cal or lance-shaped leaves, furnished with 

 transparent dots, and yellow or purplish 

 flowers disposed in axillary or terminal 

 few-flowered cymes. A stomachic tincture 



is said to be prepared from the leaves of 

 E. virginica. [A. A. B.] 



ELONGATE. Lengthened or stretched 

 out, as it were. 



ELS, ROOD. Cunonia capensis. — ,WIT. 

 Weinmannia -trifoliata. 



ELSHOLTZIA. A genus of labiate 

 plants, distinguished by having the calyx 

 ovate or bell-shaped (changing its form 

 and becoming longer as the fruit ripens), 

 and having five equal teeth ; the tube of the 

 corolla about as long as the calyx, rarely 

 longer, its border two-lipped, the upper 

 slightly notched, the lower three-lobed and 

 spreading. The species are herbs or umder- 

 shrubs of little interest, natives of Eastern 

 India and Java, rare in Central Asia. The 

 genus was named after Elsholtz, a Prussian 

 botanist. [G. D.] 



ELYASIA. A genus of Brazilian shrubs, 

 belonging to the Ochnacew. They have 

 small flowers in terminal clusters, a four- 

 leaved calyx, four petals, eight stamens, 

 and a four-celled ovary, with an ovule 

 arising from the base of the inner angle 

 of each compartment. [M. T. M.] 



ELYME DES SABLES. (Fr.) Elymus 

 axenarius. 



ELYMUS. A genus of grasses belong- 

 ing to the tribe Hordece, distinguished by 

 the inflorescence being in simple spikes, 

 very rarely branched ; spikelets two to 

 three together; glumes two, both on the 

 same side of the spikelet,without awns, en- 

 closing one to seven florets. In SteudeTs 

 Synopsis there are forty-nine species de- 

 scribed. These have an extensive geo- 

 graphical range ; nearly all are inhabitants 

 of the temperate zones, but some extend 

 even to the Arctic circle. Only two species 

 are natives of Britain, E. geniculatus and E. 

 arenarius ; the latter, Sea Lyme-grass, is 

 useful for binding with its long creeping 

 roots the land where it grows. They are 

 all coarse grasses, and of little importance 

 for agricultural purposes. [D. M.] 



ELYN A. A genus of cyperaceous plants 

 belonging to the tribe Caricince, distin- 

 guished by the scales being imbricated or 

 slightly lapping over each other by their 

 edges, covering a spikelet of two flowers ; 

 lower floret fertile, upper barren. Small 

 grass-like plants, having the habit of some 

 carices. They are mostly natives of Alpine 

 countries, and rarely met with. [D. M.] 



ELYNANTHUS. A genus of cypera- 

 ceous plants, belonging to the tribe Rhyn- 

 clwsporece, and distinguished by the in- 

 florescence being in close bundled spikes ; 

 flowers polygamous, the terminal one her- 

 maphrodite ; styles three-cleft, thickened 

 and bulbous at the base ; seeds triangular. 

 The species are mostly natives of the 

 Southern Hemisphere, South Africa, and 

 New Holland. [D. M.] 



ELYTRANTHE. A genus of Lorantha- 

 cece, containing Indian parasitical shrubs 

 with compact abbreviated spikes of few 



