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Flowers Tweet. Corollas wliite, with r.otindifh fegments. 
Berries (billing, faffron or orange-coloured, pulpy, Tweet, 
Tucculent, more quadrangular as they are larger; eaten 
by children, and the natives. This (pecies is the con- 
nedling link between Ehretia and Cordia. Native of the 
Wed Indies, growing from the crevices'of rocks, where 
there is no foil. According to Dr. P. Browne, it grows 
in the fuvannas of Jamaica ; it is there called poifon-berries: 
the French name it hois cabril batard. It feldom ri.fes above 
fourteen or fifteen feet; the berries are of a faffron colour. 
Browne named it Boumria, afjter Mr. Bearer, (or rather 
Beurer,) ah apothecary of Nuremberg, who was a great 
promoter of natural hiflory. Cultivated in 1758 by Mr. 
Miller, who received the feeds from Surinam. 
4. Ehretia exfticca, 'or dry-fruited ehretia : leaves 
wedge-form-lanceolate, with the edge reflex. This is a 
luiall tree, fifteen feet in height; fometime? eredl, fome- 
time's fupporting itfelf on oth.er trees. Leaves ovate, 
acute, very fmooth, alternate, petidied, two inches.long. 
Flowers having a flight degree of fweetnefs, much larger 
than in the preceding ones; corollas white, ^vith he.art- 
fliaped fegments. Frequent about Carthagena, in moun¬ 
tain woods ; flowering from May to Augufl, and ripen¬ 
ing the feeds in Odtober. 
5. Ehretia virgata, or twiggy ehretia : leaves oblOng, 
entire, rugged on the upper furface; branches filiform; 
flowers terminating, fcattered ; calyxes hirfute. Native 
of Hifpaniola. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe plants are too tender to 
thrive abroad in England, where they require a moderate 
warm (love in winter; but when the plants have acquired 
flrength, they may be placed in the open air during the 
heat of the funimer, but it (hould be in a flieltered litua- 
tion ; and when the evenings grow cold in the autumn, 
they in lift be removed into flicker. They are propagated 
by feeds, when thefe can be obtained. Sow them in (mail 
puts, plunged into a hot-bed. They may alfo be in- 
creafed by layers, but thefe are long'before they put out 
foots. See Lycium. 
EHRFEL'DEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
the Upper Rhine, and principality of Hefie Darmftadt : 
eight miles well of Darmftadt. 
EHRHAR'TA, f. [fo named in honour of Frederic 
E/ir/iart, a native of Svviflerland, a very diligent and acute 
obferver. Linn. Suppl. ] In botany, a genus of the. clafs 
hexandria, order monogynia, or digynia. The generic 
characters are—Calyx : glume one-flowered, two-valved, 
ovate, concave, fhorter than the corolla, patulous; one 
valve a little larger than the other, and membranaceous. 
Corolla: double; outer two-valved ; valves oblong, com¬ 
plicate, keeled, retufe, tranfverfely wrinkled, three times 
as long as the calyx, villofe on the outlide of the bafe ; 
inner a little (horter, keeled, with a fmooth even furface ; 
neftary two-leaved, very fmall ; leaflets jagged and ci- 
liate, involving the genitals. Stamina: filaments fix, ca¬ 
pillary, very fliort; antherae upright, linear, emarginate, 
fhorter than the corolla. Pifiillum : germ ovate ; flyle 
compreffed, very fliort, fmooth ; ftigma (iniple, villofe. Pe- 
ricarpium : none. Seed: (ingle, ovate, fmooth.— EJfcntial 
CharaS.er. Calyx, a two-valved one-flowered glume ; co¬ 
rolla, double, each two-valved; the outer comprefled. 
Species. 1. Ehrharta cartilagineo, or cartilaginous ehr¬ 
harta: culm undivided; panicle Ample; outer corolla 
-retufe, almoft awnlefs ; edge of the leaves cartilaginous, 
and curled. This is an extremely beautiful fmooth grafs: 
root fibroii6, perennial ; culm erect, jointed,-from a foot 
and a half to two feet high ; joints about five ; leaves 
flieathing, enfiform, the lower ones a hand in length, the 
_ upper ones much (horter; di-Ik fmooth ; edge cartilagi¬ 
nous and crenulate, fcabrous; panicle oblong, confiding 
of fifteen or twenty flowers; peduncles capillary, loofe, 
flexuofe, in threes, pairs or folitary, Ample or fometimes 
a little branched, growing thicker at the top ; flowers 
drooping; calycine glume coloured at the bafe, outer co- 
rolline glume violet, inner becoming pale; bundles of 
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villofe hairs very white and Aiming; nectary and filaments 
white; antherae yellow. Firft obferved at the Cape by 
Thunberg. 
2. Ehrharta bulbofa, or bulbous ehrharta: culm undi¬ 
vided ; panicle branched, many-flowered ; outer corolla 
retufe, awned. Lamarck confounds this with the fore¬ 
going. fpecies, from which it is very diftinft. 
3,. Ehrharta longiflora,-or long-fh'nvered ehrharta: culm 
Ample ; panicle branched, many-flowered ; outer corolla 
mucronate, tubercled, and hifpid ; flowers tliree-ftamened, 
Obferved at the.Cape by Mafion. 
•4. Ehrharta panicea, or panicled ehrharta: culm di¬ 
vided; panicle fomewhat branched ; flowers ereft, tvvo- 
ftyled. Though the flyle appears to he Angle at the bafe, 
yet it has two ftignias, as in the grades and oryza (rice), 
after which it fliouid be placed, linoe it ha-s a great affi¬ 
nity with it. Sonnerat brought it from the Cape in the 
year 17 76-. , 
5. Ehrharta .calycina, or calycined ehrharta: culm 
branched ; panicle almoft Ample..; calyx coloured equal¬ 
ling the corolla. Brought from the Cape by Sparrman. 
EH'RICH (Grofs), a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxony, and county of Schvvartzburg :. four 
miles vvefi: of Grcuflen. 
EHR'NAU, a town of Germany, in the duchy.of Stiria: 
fix miles north of Knittelfeld. 
EHRN'HAUSEN, a towi\ of Germany, in the duchy 
of Stiria, at the conflux of the Salm and the Muehr: ter. 
miles north of Mahrburg. 
EIIRN'SFRUNN, a town of Germany, in the arch¬ 
duchy of Auftria : eight miles Couth of Laab. 
E'HUD -[Yinx Heb. praifing.] A judge of Ifrael.' He 
was the foil of Gera, a Benjamite, a man left-handed, 
who delivered Ifrael from the opprellion of Eglon king 
of Moab. Judges iii. 15, &c. * 
EI’A, a river of Rulfia, vvliich runs into the Sea of 
Azoph, at Eifxoi. 
, FIFA, or Ey,/. in our old writers,, are tifed for an 
iflartd. Hence tiie names of places ending in ey, denotes 
them to be iflands. Thus, Ramfey, the ifie of rams; 
Sheppey, the ille of (beep, &c. Eia is_ alfo fometimes 
it fed for water ; and lienee the names o-f places near waters 
or lakes terminate in ey '. 
To EJA'CULATE, v. a. ['cjaculor , Lat.J To throw ; 
to (boot; to dart out.—Being rooted fo little way in the 
(kin, nothing near fo deeply as the quills of fowls, they 
are the more eafily ejaculated. Grew. 
The mighty magnet from the center darts 
This (Irong, though fnbtile force, through all the parts : 
Its adlive rays, ejaculated thence, 
Irradiate all the wide circumference. BlackmoreT 
EJ ACULA'TION, f. The act of darting or throwing 
out.—There feemeth to be acknowledged, in the aft of 
envy, an ejaculation or irradiation of the eye. Bacon. —A 
fhort prayer darted out occafionally, without folemn re¬ 
tirement.—In your drefling let there be ejaculation fitted to 
the feveral adtions of dreffing; as at walking your hands, 
pray God to cleanfe your foul from fin. Taylor. 
EJ A'CUL ATORY, adj. Suddenly darted out puttered 
in fljoft fentences.—The continuance of this pofhire might 
incline to eafe and drowfinefs; they ufed it rather upon 
feme fliort ejaculatory prayers, than in their larger devo¬ 
tions. Dap pa. —Sudden ; hafty.—We are not to value our- 
felves upon the merit of ejaculatory repentances, that take 
us by fits and darts. VEJlrange. 
EI'BESWALD, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Stiria: fixteen miles foutli of Voitlberg. 
EI'CETzE, called alfo Heicette, and FIicet.e, here¬ 
tics of the feventh century, who made profeflion of the 
monadic life. 
EICH'ENBUHL, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
the Lower Rhine, and deflorate of Mentz : three miles 
fouth-eafi: of Miltenberg. 
EICH'HOLZ, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
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