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EDIBLE BRITISH MOLLUSKS. 



Lustreless pearls, 61. 



Lutraria elliptica, 153. 



Lutraria maxima, or great clam, 



101. 

 Lutraria oblonga, 153. 



Mactra glauca, or helvacea, 152. 

 Mactra solida, 151. 

 Mactra stultorum, 151. 

 Mactra stultorum, roads made of 



the shells of, 152. 

 Mactra subtruncata, or ladv cockle, 



152. 

 Mactrida?, 151. 

 Mactridse, to dress, 153. 

 Madre-perna, 139. 

 Madrid, price of oysters at, 81. 

 Manche de couteau, 41. 

 Marennes oysters, 79. 

 Meleagrina margaiutifera, or white 



pearl-shell, 115. 

 Menestra de ostras y Almejas, 146. 

 Meninx, in Africa, famed for its 



purple, 131. 

 Messerschalenmuschel, 41. 

 Military order of Santiago de la 



Espada, 109. 

 Milk rendered luminous by a 



Pholas, 162. 

 Milton natives, 73. 

 Miranha Indians, 117. 

 Mock asses'-milk, 6. 

 Mock pearls, 116. 

 Mogne, 16. 



Mogul, anecdote of a, 59. 

 Moldavian snails, large, 11. 

 Molimorno, 16. 



Moonbeams injurious to fish, 81. 

 Mossel, Dutch name for mussel,45. 

 Mother-of-pearl made of Halio- 



tidae, 114. 

 Mother-of-pearl buttons, etc., 115. 

 Mother-of-pearl cups, 115. 

 Mother-of-pearl, crucifixes and 



beads made of, 115. 

 Mother-of-pearl, dishes and bowls 



of, 115. 

 Mother-of-pearl, fountayne and 



basen of, 116. 

 Mother-of-pearl, shippes made of, 



116. 



Mother-of-pearl, watch set in, 116. 



Moucle de vigne, 17. 



Moule, 45. 



Mucianus and the oysters of Cyzi- 

 cus, 69. 



Muergo, Andalusian name for the 

 razor- shell, 41. 



Murex brandaris, 131. 



Murex erinaceus destructive to 

 oysters, 70. 



Murex trunculus, 129. 



Murex trunculus eaten in Spain, 

 132. 



Muricidae, 123. 



Muschel, 45. 



Muscl, muskel, muscule, Anglo- 

 Saxon names for mussel, 45. 



Muskels in brewet, 63. 



Musselbui'gh, 48. 



Mussel beds, or bouchots, 46. 



Mxissel, common, 44. 



Mussels used for bait, 48. 



Mussels and cockles, to cook, 67. 



Mussels from Cornwall, etc., for 

 Billingsgate, 47. 



Mussels consumed at Edinburgh 

 and Leith, amount of, 47. 



Mussels and cockles in shell- 

 mounds, 34. 



Mussels dressed a la Provencale, 

 66. 



Mussels, to dress, 65. 



Mussels, large, from Exmouth, 51. 



Mussels a valuable article of food, 

 51. 



Mussels fit for food in the winter 

 months, 52. 



Mussels fed on spawn of starfish 

 injurious to eat, 52. 



Mussels, French trade in, 47. 



Mussel fritters, 66. 



Mussels injurious if gathered from 

 ships' sides, etc., 51. 



Mussel sauce, 65. 



Mussels, scalloped, Francatelli's 

 recipe, 66. 



Mussels, seaweed, and shingle, ren- 

 der embankments firm, 49. 



Mussels, little, called seeds, 46. 



Mussel-shell for cutting thehair,50. 



Mussels sent to La Rochelle, 47. 



