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mod the whole length ; thefe are terminated by loofe 
fpikes of red flowers, as is alfo the principal (fern ; the 
leaves are rough, feflile, of a light green, and a little 
hoary. 
Eupatorium conyzoides, No. 14. may probably be the 
fame with Kuhnia conyzoides of Linnaeus. 
Propagation and Culture. The North American forts, 
No. 3,4, 10, 11, 14, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36, 37, 3S, 40. being 
hardy plants, the feeds may be fown in the full ground, 
Ifut there rnuft be care taken in the fow'ing to keep the 
forts feparate ; for, as the feeds of thefe plants have a 
light down adhering to them, they are eafily difplaced by 
the lead wind ; fo that the bed way will be to fow them 
in drills, but thefe fhould be but (hallow, for, if the feeds 
are buried too deep, they will not grow. The bed in 
which thefe are fown fhould not be too much expofed to 
the fun, but rather have ah eafi afpeiT, where the morning 
fun only reaches it; but where it is more expofed, it 
fhould be (haded with mats in the heat of the day, and the 
ground fhould be kept pretty moift; for as thefe plants 
generally grow in moift fhudv fituations in their native 
countries, they will (ucceed better when they have a foil 
and lituation fomewhat like that; though as we want their 
heat in fummer, the plants will thrive here when expofed 
to the (un, provided they have a moift foil, or are 
fupplied with water in dry weather. When the young' 
plants come up, they mu ft be kept clean from weeds ; and 
where they are too clofe, fome of them fhould be drawn 
out, to give room for the others to grow ; and if thefe 
are wanted, they may be planted in another bed, where, 
if they are (haded and watered, they will foon take root ; 
after which they will require no farther care but to keep 
them clean from weeds till the following autumn, when 
they jnay be tranfplanted to the places where they are to 
remain. As the roots of thefe plants foread out to acon- 
iiderable diftance, they fh.ould not be allowed lefs than 
three feet from any other plants, and fome of the largeft 
growing fhould be allowed four feet. If the foil in which 
they are planted is a foft gentle loam, they will thrive 
much better, and flower ftronger, than in light dry 
ground ; in which, if they are not duly watered in dry 
fummers, their leaves will (brink, and their ftalks will 
not grow to half their ufual height. All thefe forts have 
perennial roots, by which they may be propagated ; and 
as fome of them do not perfebt their feeds in England, 
that is the only way of increafing the plants here ; fome 
of the forts have creeping roots, fending out offsets in great 
plenty, fo thefe are eafily propagated ; and the others 
may be taken up, or the heads taken off from them, every 
other year, in doing of which there fhould be care taken 
not to cut or injure the old plants too much, which would 
caufe them to flower weak the following year. The belt 
tune to remove thefe plants is in autumn, as foon as they 
have done growing, that they may get freffi roots before 
the froft comes on ; but if that Ihould happen foon after 
their removal, if the furface of the ground is covered 
with tan, or dried leaves, to keep out the froft, it will 
effebhially fecure them ; and if this is done to the old 
plants in very fevere winters, it will always preferve 
them ; however, it may not be amifs to prabtife this on 
the young feedling plants, which have not fo good roots, 
norare fo well eftablifhed in the ground ; the future cul¬ 
ture will be only to dig the ground about them every 
fpring, and keep them clean. The fourth fort however 
is fometimes killed in very fevere weather, if not covered ; 
when the ftalks therefore decay in autumn, the ground 
fhould be covered with fome old tanner’s bark ; it multi¬ 
plies very faft by its creeping roots, which may be parted 
every other year. The European fort, (No. 21,) is fel- 
dom admitted into gardens, becaufe it is very common by 
water (ides ; and wherever it is fuffered to feed, the 
ground wiil be well ftored with the plants to a great dif- 
tance. Thofe which are natives of the Weft Indies, and 
'other hot countries, (No. 1, 2, 5—9, 15, 17—=19, 22, 
25, 26, 27, 29—35, 39, 41—49,) being tender, fhould be 
planted in pots, and kept conftantly plunged in the tan- 
bed in the ftove, where they will thrive and flower. 
Thefe may be propagated by cutting off fome of their 
young (hoots about the middle of June, when they have 
ftrength, planting them in pots filled with light earth, 
and plunging them into a moderate hot-bed, where, if 
they are (haded from the fun, and gently watered as they 
may require it, they will put out roets in fix weeks, and 
may then be tranfplanted into feparate pots, and treated 
as the old plants. When the feeds of thefe tender forts 
can be had from their native countries, the plants raifed 
that way are much preferable to thofe which are obtained 
by any other method, and will Rower much ftronger; 
but, as thefe feeds feldom grow the firftyear, few perfons 
have patience to wait for the plants coming up. When 
any of thefe feeds are brought over, they fhould be 
fown as foon as they arrive in pots, that they may be re¬ 
moved at any time ; the pots fhould be plunged into a 
moderate hot-bed, and the earth kept tolerably moift j 
the glaffes fhould alfo be (haded in the heat of the day, 
to prevent the earth from drying ; in this hot-bed the 
pots may remain till autumn, when, if the plants are not 
up, they fhould be plunged between the plants in the 
bark-ftove, and in the fpring removed to a gentle hot-bed, 
which will bring up the plants foon after. When thefe 
are fit to remove they fhould be planted in feparate fmalL 
pots, and plunged into the hot-bed again, (hading them 
from the fun till they have taken new root ; then they 
fhould have a large (hare of free air admitted to them in 
warm weather, and frequently refrefhed with water. In 
the winter thefe plants fhould be more fparingly watered, 
efpecially thofe forts whofe ftalks decay ; and in the fum¬ 
mer they fhould have a large (hare of free air admitted 
to them, with which management they will thrive and 
flower. See Ageratum, Agrimonia, Baccharis, 
Bidens, Chrysocoma, Conyza, Coreopsis, Kuh¬ 
nia, Seriphium, Stoebe. 
EUPAT'RIDJE, in antiquity, a title given to the no¬ 
bility of Athens, as diftinguifhed from the Geomori and 
Demiurgi. The Enpatridie, by Thefeiis’s eftablifhment, 
had the right of choofing magiftrates, difpenfing the laws, 
and interpretingreligious myfteries. The whole city, in all 
other matters, was reduced to an equality. The Geomori 
were inifbandmen, and inferior to the Eupatrida; in point 
of fortune ; the Demiurgi were artificers, and fell fliort 
of the Eupatridre in number. 
EUPSP'SIA, f. from sv, well, and Treirla, Gr. 
to concobt.] A good and heathful digeftion. 
EUPEP'TIC, adj. Of eafy digeftion.—Thofe that are 
eupeptic , and promote concobtion. Evelyn’s Acctaria. 
■ EUPET'ALCJS, f in natural hiftory, a precious ftone 
of four colours : in botany, a kind of laurel. 
EUPHAN'TUS, a poet and hiftcrian of Olynthus, fori 
of Eubulides, and preceptor to Antigonus king of Mace¬ 
donia. 
EUPHE'ME, in fabulous hiftory, the nurfe to the 
Mufes, and mother of Crocus by Pan. PauJ'anias. 
EU'PHEMISM,/. [eu, well, and Gr. to fay.] 
A good name, a reprefentation of good qu-.ities; a figure 
in rhetoric in which a harfh word or expreflion is changed 
for one lefs offenfive. 
EUPHE'MUS, in fabulous hiftory, a fon of Neptune 
and Europa, who was among the Argonauts, and the 
hunters of the Calydonian boar. He was faid to be fo 
fwift and light, that he could run over the fea without 
fcarcely wetting his feet. Pindar. 
EU'PHON, f. a mufical inftrument lately invented by 
Dr. Chladni of Wittenberg, confiding of forty-two im¬ 
moveable parallel cylinders of glafs of equal length and 
thicknefs ; but its conftrubtion, tone, and the method of 
playing it, are totally different from thofe of the harmo¬ 
nica, with which indeed it has nothing in common but 
the glafs. This inftrument has fome refemblance to a 
writing defk. When opened, the glafs tubes, of the 
thicknefs of the barrel of a quill, and about fixteen 
inches 
