Oels, a manufacturing town of Prussian Silesia, 16 miles ENE. of Breslau by rail. Pop. 10,276.
Enanthic Ether. See ETHER.
Enoth'era, a genus of ornamental plants of the natural order Onagraceæ, related to the Fuchsia (q.v.), though strikingly dissimilar in general appearance. The Evening Primrose (Æ. biennis), a native of Virginia, has been known in Europe since 1614, and is now naturalised in many parts of Europe and in some parts of Britain, on the banks of rivers, in thickets, on sandy grounds, &c. The flowers are fragrant in the evening. The root somewhat resembles a carrot in shape, but is short; it is usually red, fleshy, and tender, and is eaten in salads, or in soups, and as a boiled vegetable. Eaten after dinner it incites to wine-drinking, as olives do. This and numerous other species of
(Enothera, chiefly natives of North America, are very generally cultivated in English flower-gardens.
(Enothera biennis).