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of' Auftria, on the Leyta, built by the kmghts-templaFS s 
eighteen miles fonth of Vienna. 
E'BENHAUSEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Franconia, and bifhopric of Wurzburg; five miles north- 
north-weft of Schweinfurt. 
E'BENHEIT, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and margraviate of Meiffen: two miles 
north-eaft of Konigftein. 
E'BENSFELD, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Stiria : fix miles weft of Pettau. 
E'BENTHAL, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Carinthia : tiVo miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Clagenfurt. 
EB'ENUS,/] [e^evo; or e? £ ao; of the Greeks; ebenus 
or ebenum of the Romans ; from the Hebrew keben. ] 
Ebony ; in botany, a genus of the clafs diadelphia, or¬ 
der decandria. The generic characters are—Calyx : pe- 
rianthium one-leafed, bell-ftiaped, terminated by five fili¬ 
form teeth, which are villofe, and nearly equal. Corol¬ 
la: papilionaceous, length of the calyx; ftandard round- 
ilh, itraight, entire ; rudiments of wings obfcure, cref- 
cent-fliaped ; keel crefcent-lhaped, gibbous, afcending at 
the tip. Stamina: filaments diaaelphous, all growing 
together into a (heath, with tips diftinCt; antherae round- 
i(h. Piftillum : germ roundifh, villofe ; ftyle capillary ; 
(tig-ma terminal, acuminate. Pericarpium : legume ovate. 
Seed: (ingle, rough with hairs.— EJfential Char aider. Ca¬ 
lyx, with teeth, the length of the corolla; wings, fcarcely 
any ; feed, one, rough with hairs. 
Species . i. Ebenus Cretica, or Cretan ebony: leaves 
ternate, quinate, or pinnate, with two pairs of leaflets ; 
fpikes terminating. This rifes with a (hrubby (talk three 
or four feet high, with feveral fide branches; leaves at 
each joint, hoary, compofed of five .narrow lanceolate 
leaflets, which join at their tails to the foot-ftalk, and 
fpre&d out like the fingers of a hand; the branches are 
terminated by thick fpikes of large purple flowers : the 
fpikes are from two to three inches long, and make a fine 
appearance; it flowers in June and July, and in very 
warm feafons will fometimes perfect feeds in England. 
It grows naturally in Crete, and fome iflands of the Ar¬ 
chipelago. Lamarck and Juflieu refer this plant to the 
genus Anthyllis. 
2. Ebenus pinnata, or pinnated ebony: leaves pinnate, 
with four pairs of leaflets; fpikes axillary, on very long 
peduncles. Biennial; native of Barbary and the I.evant; 
flowers in July. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe are propagated by feeds, 
which fhoulcl be fown in the autumn, for thofe which are 
fown in the fprin’g often fail ; they mull be fown in pots, 
and placed under a frame in the winter, where they may 
be protected from froft. In the fpring the plants will 
come up ; they fhould be kept clean from weeds, and re- 
frefhed now and then with water. When thefe have ac¬ 
quired ftrength enough to be removed, they fhould be 
each planted in a feparate fmall pot filled with light 
earth, and plunged into a moderate hot-bed juft to pro¬ 
mote their taking new root; then they fhould be gradu¬ 
ally inured to bear the open air, into which they fhould 
be removed the latter end of May, placing them in a fhel- 
tcred fituation, where they may remain till autumn, when 
they nmft be removed into fhelter ; for thefe plants will 
not live in the open air through the winter, nor fhould 
they be too tenderly treated, left they draw up weak. 
During the winter feafon, the plants mult be fparingly 
watered, but in the fumrner they will require to be often 
refrefhed. The other management is the fame as for 
other of the hardier exotic plants, among which they will 
make a fine variety. See Amerimnum and Diostyros. 
E'BENZWEIER, ,a town of Germany, in the arch¬ 
duchy of Auftria : four miles fouth of Gmunden. 
E'BER, or Heber, [Heb. a paffage.] A man’s name. 
E'BERACH, Burg, or Burg-Ebrach, a town of 
-Germany, in the circle of Franconia, and bifhopric of 
Bamberg: feven miles fouth-vveft of Bamberg, and'thirty- 
two eaft of Wurzburg. 
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E'BER BACH, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
the Lower Rhine, and electorate of Mentz ; thirteen miles 
weft-north-weft of Mentz. 
E'BERBACH, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
the Lower Rhine, and palatinate of the Rhine, on the 
Neckar, celebrated for its wine : eleven miles eaft of 
Heidelberg. 
E'BERBERG, or Ebernberg, a caftle of Germany, 
in the palatinate of the Rhine, befieged, in 16.92, by the 
landgrave of Heffe Caflel, without fuccefs; and taken by 
the margrave of Baden, in 1697 : five miles fouth-weft of 
Creutznach. 
EBERMAN'STADT, a town of Germany, in the 
circle of Franconia, and bifhopric of Bamberg, on the 
Wifent: thirteen miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Bamberg. 
F.'BERN, a town of Germany, in the circle of Fran¬ 
conia, and bifhopric of Wurzburg : twenty-four miles 
eaft of Schweinfurt, and forty north-eaft of Wurzburg. 
E'BERNDORF, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Carinthia: fourteen miles eaft of Clagenfurt. 
E'BERNSTEIN, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Carinthia, on the river Gortftchitz: twelve miles north- 
north-eaft of Clagenfurt. 
E'BERSBACH, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, and principality of NafTau Dillenburg : fix 
miles north-north-eaft of Dillenburg. 
E'BERSBERG, a town of Germany, in the archduchy 
of Auftria : eight miles fouth-weft of Ens. 
E'BERSDORF, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Stiria : five miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Hardeberg. 
E'BERSDORF, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and territory of Erzgebirg : three miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of Frakenberg. 
E'BERSDORF, or Rotting Eberstorf, a town of 
Germany, in the archduchy of Auftria, on the Danube: 
fix miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Vienna. 
E'BERSFIARD, a town and caftle of Hungary : feven 
miles fouth-eaft of Prefburg. 
E'BERSPERG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Bavaria : nineteen miles eaft of Munich. 
E'BERSPEUNT, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Bavaria: thirty-four miles eaft-north-eaft of Munich. 
E'BERSTADT, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
the Upper Rhine, and principality of Heffe Darmftadt: 
four miles fouth of Darmftadt. 
EBERSTALL'ZELL, a town of Germany, in the 
archduchy of Auftria : eight miles fouth of Wells. 
. E'BERSTEIN, a county and principality of Germany, 
iq the circle of Suabia, fituated between the margraviate 
of Baden and duchy of Wurtemberg. Tire family was 
extinct in the year 1660, and by virtue of a treaty made 
in 1305, palfed to the houfe of Baden. The town and 
caftle of Eberftein are two miles weft of Kuppenheim. - 
E'BERSTHAL, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
the Lower Rhine, and electorate of Mentz: two miles 
fouth of Krautheini. 
EBER'TUS (Theodore), a learned German in the fe- 
ven.teenth century, who filled tlie chair of Hebrew pro- 
fellbr at Frankfort-on-the-Oder, and was rector of the 
univerfity in that place in 1618, and 1627. He acquired 
confiderable reputation by the profound learning dif- 
played in his writings, and in particular by the intimacy 
of his acquaintance with the oriental tongues.- In 162S, 
he publifhed a work inti tied Elogia JuriJ'confultorum & Po- 
litorum centum, illujlrium, qui fanSlam Hcbradm Linguam aliafque 
ejus propagines orientates propagarunt, auxerunt, promove unt, 
8vo. He afterwards publifhed Chrono'logia Sanbl. Ling. Drc- 
torum, &c. prefenting us with a chronological view of the 
-principal doctors and learned men who have cultivated 
the Hebrew’ language, from the earlieft times to the pre- 
fent; The Life of Jefus Chrift, vvritrenjn Hebrew ; Pectica 
Htbraica, Svo.' 1620 ; a moral treatife intitled Speculum Mo¬ 
rale; and A Century of Political Obfervations, written in 
Latin. 
EBTIER. SeeABHER. 
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