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fake of variety, but are feldoni admitted into gardens for 
pleafure. The fourteenth fort is a perennial plant, which 
grows naturally on the Alps, and may be propagated by 
feeds in the fame manner as the firft fort, but fhould have 
a fhady fituation, and a moiff foil. The others are annual 
plants, which, if once admitted into a garden, and fuffered 
to fcatter their feeds, will become very troublefome weeds 
there. They will help very well to cover rubbifh or rock- 
work. No. 21 is too tender to thrive in the open air in 
this country, fo the plants fltould be kept in pots; and if 
in the winter they are placed in a common frame, where 
they may have a large (bare of free air in mild weather, 
and fcreened from bardfrofts, they will thrive better than 
with tender treatment. It is eafily propagated by cut¬ 
tings, which, if planted in May, will readily put out roots, 
and the young plants will flower the autumn following. 
See Conyza, Crepis, Inula. 
ERI'GERUM,/ in botany. See Senecio. 
ERI'GONE, a daughter of Icarius, who hung herfelf 
when (lie heard that her father had been killed by fome 
fiepherds whom he had intoxicated. She was made a 
confleilation, now known under the name of Virgo. Bac¬ 
chus deceived her by changing himfelf into a beautiful 
grape. Ovid. —A daughter of fEgifthus and Clytemneftra, 
who had by her brother Orefles, Penfhilus, who fhared the 
regal power with Timafenus, the legitimate fon of Oreftes 
and Hermione. Paufanias. s 
ERIN A'CEA, f. in botany. See Anthyllis. 
ERINA'CEUS, the hedgehog, in zoology ; a genus of 
quadrupeds belonging to the order of ferae, the characters 
of which are, two upper fore-teeth dillant; and two lower, 
approximate: upper tufks five on each fide; lower, three.- 
grinders four on each fide, in each jaw : back and (ides 
covered with fpines. This animal has a very uncommon 
method of defending himfelf: being poflefted of little 
flrength or agility, he does not attempt to fly from or af- 
fail his enemies ; but eredts his bridles, and rolls himfelf 
up like a ball, expofing no part of his body that is not 
furnifhed with (harp weapons of defence ; he will not un¬ 
fold himfelf unlefs thrown into water: the more he is 
frightened or haraffed, the clofer he (huts himfelf up ; and 
frequently difcharges his urine, which has a very fetid 
fmell. The females come in feafon in the fpring, and 
bring forth their young in the beginning of fummer. 
They bring forth from three to five at a time. The young 
are of a whitifh colour, and only the points of the bridles 
appear above the (kin. According to Gmelin, the Kal- 
jnucs tame them, and employ them as cats. They feed 
upon mice, fallen fruits, roots, and infeCts : they are very 
fond of flelh-meat, whether raw or roaded. They fre¬ 
quent woods, and live under the trunks of old trees. They 
Jeldom come out of their holes in the day, but go about 
in qued of food during the night. They eat but little, 
and can live very long without taking any nouridiment. 
They do not lay up any (lore of provisions in harved ; 
inch an inftinCt would be ufelefs, as they are torpid in 
the winter. They lie under the undeferved reproach pf 
fucking cattle and hurting their udders ; but the fmall- 
nefs of their mouth renders that impodible. There are 
fix fpecies, as follow ; 
1. Erinuceus Europceus, the European or common 
hedge-hog ; tins is diftinguifhed by a long nofe, nodrils 
bordered on each fide with a loofe flap ; ears fhort, 
rounded, broad, and naked ; eyesfmull; legs (hort, naked, 
and dufky ; claws weak ; the upper part of the face, Tides, 
and rump, are covered with a drong coarfe hair, of a yel¬ 
low ifh adi-coiour ; the back with drong fharp cinerous 
fpines, having a bar of black through their middle. This 
European fpecies inhabits Madagascar, and mod parts of 
Rudia, but is fcarcely ever found in Siberia. He hunts 
during the night, but keeps retired during the day.; feeds 
on roots, fruits, and infects; reiides in final 1 thickets and 
hedges; nedles in mots, grafs, or leaves; and, during win¬ 
ter, he rolls himfelf up and deeps away that dreary feafon. 
2. Erinaceus nuritus, the Siberian hedge-hog. This 
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fpecies, which inhabits the lower parts of the Volga and 
Ural, and as far Lake Baikal, are inferior in fize to the 
preceding. They grow very fat, deep all the winter, live 
on infefits, even the mod caudic, and will eat above a hun¬ 
dred cantharides without any injury : they roll themfelves 
up, and have all the manners of the common fpecies. 
Their ears are large, open and oval, with foft whitidi hairs 
within; tail fhort; fpines (lender and brown, but white 
at their roots and points ; the limbs and belly covered 
with’ a mod elegant foft white fur. They bring their 
young, from four to feven, twice a-year. 
3. Erinaceus inauris, the Guiana hedge-hog, native of 
South America. It is about eight inches long, deditute 
of ears, head thick, diort ; fpines cinereous tinged with 
yellow ; hair foft, whitifh-chefnut over the eyes ; tail 
fhort; claws long and crooked. 
4. Erinaceus Malaccenfis, the Malacca hedge-hog with 
pendulous ears. Inhabits Ada ; from it is procured the 
precious done called piedra del porco. 
5. Erinaceus fetofus, the Adatic liedge-hog : ears 
fhort, with fpines on the head, neck, tail, and withers 
only. Inhabits India and Madagafcar ; hardly fix inches 
long ; wallows in the mire, grunts like a hog, burrows ; 
lies torpid fix months, during which the hair falls off. 
Snout and whifkers long ; feet fhort; fpines whitidi, pale 
chefniit in the midfile ; hair white. 
6. Erinaceus ecaudata, the taillefs hedge-hog : fnout 
very long, acute. Inhabits India and Madagafcar ; eight 
inches long ; in its habit exaCtly refembles the Adatic 
fpecies. Mouth and eyes fmall : ears rounded, longer 
than the lad; fpines black in the middle, covering the 
whole back and Tides ; hair yellowidi ; feet tawney. 
ERINA'CEUS,/; in botany. See Hydnum. 
ERIN'GO,/. in botany. See Eryngium. 
ERIN'NA, a Greek poetefs, mentioned by different 
writers as a native of Lefbos, of Teios, of Rhodes, and of 
Tenos in Laconia. She is fuppofed to have been con¬ 
temporary with Sappho, about the year before Chrid 600 ; 
but the Chronicle of Eufebius places her two hundred and 
fifty years later. She was celebrated in ancient Greece,, 
and feveral epigrams were written upon her, one of which- 
fpeaks of her as inferior to Sappho in lyrics, and fuperior 
in hexameters. Some fragments are extant in her name, 
which are infertea in'.the Carmina Novem Poetarmi Famina- 
rum ; Antwerp, 1568. 
ERIN'NYS, one of the Eumenides. The word figni- 
fies the fury of the mind, egis vov. Virgil. —A furname of 
Ceres, on account of her amour with Neptune under the 
form of a horfe. Paufanias. 
ERI'NUS,/] in botany, a genus of the clafs didynamia, 
order angiofpermia, natural order of perfonatae, (pedicu- 
lares, JuJf.) The generic characters are—Calyx : peri- 
anthium five-leaved ; leaflets lanceolate, upright, nearly 
equal, permanent. Corolla : one-petalled, unequal ; 
tube ovate-cylindric, length of the calyx, bent back; 
border flat, five-parted; divifions equal, obcordate. 
Stamina: filaments four, very fhort, within the tube of 
the corolla, of which the two oppolite ones are a little 
longer ; antherae fmall. Pidillum: germ fomewhat ovate; 
dyle very fhort; ftigma headed. Pericarpium: capfule 
ovate, rolled up in the calyx, two-celled, gaping two 
ways. Seeds: numerous, fmall.— Effential CharaBer. Ca¬ 
lyx five-leaved ; corolla, border five-cleft, equal, vvith 
the lobes emarginate; upper lip very fhort, reflex; cap- 
fule two-celled. 
Species, x. Erinus alpinus, or alpine erinus : flowers 
racemed, leaves fpatulate. Root perennial. The root- 
leaves form a thick tuft clofe to the ground; they ire all 
linear-fpatulate, pubefeent, with a few ferratures at the 
end 011 both fxd.es. Leaves on the flem alternate. Stems 
many, very Ample, a hand high, round, pubefeent, up¬ 
right ; the fide ones barren and decumbent. Flowers al¬ 
ternate, feparated by leaves like thofe on the flem, but 
fnutller, and forming an upright Ample raceme; calyx 
bcll.fliapcd, five-parted, permanent;corolla funnel-lhaped; 
ftigma 
