the sea-grape, or shrub horse tail, in botany, a genus of the dioecia monadelphia class. The calyx of the amentum of the male and female is divided into segments; the corolla is wanting in both; the stamens are seven; there are two pistils, and two seeds covered with a kind of cup-berry. There are two species, none of them natives of Britain.

EPHEMERY, in medicine, the name of a species of fever continuing the space of one day, or sometimes more; for the medical writers express themselves by ephemeris simplex, vel plurium dierum. See MEDICINE.