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ENDOGENS. 68 ENEMA. EN'DOGENS (Neo-Lat. endogenus, from Gk. ivoov, endon within + -761*77!, -genes, producing, iromylyver6ai,gignesthai, to become). An obsolete term formerly applied to monocotyledons (q.v.) EN'DOPHYTE, or EN'TOPHYTE (from Gk. evSov, endon, or ivros, entos, within + iprrbv, phyton, plant, from <piciv, phyt in, to pn A plant which grows inside another plant. See Symbiosis. EN'DOR. A place near Mount Gilboa, in tie. where King Saul visited a witch who, by the art of necromancy, raised for him from imuel, according to I. Sam. xxviii. 3-25. In the fourth century a.d. a large town four Roman miles south of Tabor bore the name Endor, and a small village seven bt miles from the slopes of Gilboa still possesses i1 as Endur. ENDORSE (from OF. endosser, ML. sure, to indorse, from I. at. in, in + dorsum, back). In heraldry (q.v.), a subordinary, equal to the fourth part of a pale. See Heraldry. ENT30SPERM (from Gk. swoi/. endon, with- in + airipiia. */« nun, seed, from o-irelpeiv, */■ to sow). The nutritive tissue developed within the embrj i-sac of the seed and used by the em- bryo. An obsolete term for it is albumen. See EN'DOTHE'LIO'MA. See Ti MOR. EN'DOTHE'LIUM (Neo-Lat., from Gk.?v&>v, endon, wit Inn + 0ni, thele, nipple). A tissue erves as the lining of certain closed cavi- ties and tubes of the body. It covers the serous surfaces of the pleura, the pericardium, the peritoneum, and the synovial membranes of the joints, and line- the entire vascular system, heart, arteries, vein-, and capillaries, as well lymphatic vessels and spaces. Endothelium consists of a single layer of thin, delicate plate- like nucleated cells united with one another by a small a tint of cement, substance. The cells differ somewhal in shape and size. Thus, those lining the 3erous cavities are polyhedral scales resembling squamous epithelium, t >n the other hand, those lining the bl 1 vessels are long, ir- regular spindles, Receni histological classifica- tion tends toward the placing of endothelium among the epithelial tissues. See EPITHELIUM. ENDOTH'YRA (Neo l.at. nom. pi., from Gk. evSon, endon, within + Svpa, thyra, door). A genus "i i" ii foraminifera, of interest because t '1. minute shells • •! one of it - Bpecies, Endothyra Baileyi, form a huge part <,f the light gray oolitic lime-ion. ■ of Lower Carbi irous age, known Bedford limestone. The belli occur by myriad- in tin- limestone associated with frag .it ..tier minute organisms and with oolitic 1 lime Bee Fob m i ut:ka ; 1 tBBONII 1 BOl 9 Svs 1 1 EN'DOTROPH'IC. See Myoobbhiza. ENDOWED SCHOOLS ACTS. .ts of Par linmenl prevent mi of 1 he foundat iona for the support education in England. Ultimately, they have a Ht mi 1 trol 1 individual 1 ifying any abuse w as Ii and ex- 1 ml en- plifj tin- pi idure, In 1840 reports of the Brougham Commission, the chancery courts ere given power to make decrees or orders ex- tending the systems of instruction, and the right of admission to any school, and to estab- lish schemes for the application of its resources, having due regard to the intentions of its founder. In 1S53 a charity commission was . stablished, that should inquire into the con- ditions and management of charities, sanction legal proceedings regarding trusts, and, on the application of trustees, suggest to Parliament new schemes for the appropriation of charitable property. One of its main functions was, of course, to deal with endowed schools. This com- nii-sion was given certain judicial powers in 1860, and about the same time it was provided that schools should be open to children of all denominations except where the foundations re- quired specific denominational instruction. The seven great public boarding schools were dealt with by a separate act in 1S68. and in 18(39, as a result of the report of the Taunton Commis- sion, an endowed schools aid was passed estab- lishing a commission, which should, in the case ..f the other endowed school-, initiate, without wailing for applications, schemes for the reform of courses of instruction. These schemes were to be published, and a certain time was to be allowed for protests and petitions. When the original scheme or a revision thereof was ac- cepted by the council on education and not objected to by Parliament, it was submitted to the Queen in council, on whose approval it became a law. In 1S74 the commission came to an end, and its functions were transferred to the Charity Commission, whose power over endowed .Is had. since I860, been suspended. Their powers have from time to time been renewed, and they have been gradually reorganizing all the endowed schools in England and Wales to which the act applies. It is expected that this work will be completed in 1903. Consult Balfour. The Educational Systems of Great Britain and //./.ni./ 1 London, 1900). See National Edica- 1 ion. Systems of. END YM'ION (l.at., from Gk. 'E»8»/i«). Ac- cording to the Elean story, the son of Aetblios or ni Zeus and Calyce; leader of the .Etollans to Elis and king of that country, where his grave was shown at Olympia. lie was also said to have received from Zeus (he gift of eternal sleep with perpetual youth, lie was beloved by Selene Mhe moon I, who bore him fifty daughters; i.e. ill.- fifty months of tlio Olympian cycle. This love of Selene for Endymion, however, is more commonly connected with another form of the . according to which Endymion was a youth- ful hunter on Mount Latinos, in Caria, and in a cave in thai mountain he sleeps forever, visited nightly by Selene, who has given him this sleep that she may ki^s him unperceived. Other ver- sions mad. ■ tlii- sleep a gift of Zeus, as reward ti'i piety, or a punishment for his presumption, when, translated to (he gods on Olympus, he had dared to fall in love with Hera. The sleeping 11 visited bj Selene is represented in ni wall painting I especially on Roman sarcophagi. Consuli Robert, Intikt Sarkophag- Reliefs, iii. (Berlin, 1898). The story of En- ■ i 1 he subject "f a poem by Keat ENT5MA (Neo I .i . From Gk. eVe^a. injection. 1 •'. en, in -f Uvac hienai, to send). A