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stove or orchideous house. Some 
of the species have upright flower- 
stems, and are grown in pots in 
brick rubbish, mized with sand or 
heath-mould, and a little loam. 
Most of the kinds are handsome, 
and some have splendid flowers. 
May Appie.—-Sée Poporuy’Liuo. | 
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Fig. 37.—Pot for Training. 
Ma'yrenus. — Celastrinee. —An 
evergreen shrub, a native of Chili, | 
with yellowish flowers, which are 
produced in great abundance in| 
May. It is nearly hardy, and only 
requires a slight protection during 
severe frosts. 
Meapow Sarrron.—The popular 
English name for Colchicum. 
Mecono’psis. — Papaverdcee. — 
The new name for the Welsh Pop- 
py, Papdver cambrica, L. This 
plant, which has yellow flowers, is 
a native of mountainous places in 
Wales; and it is of easy culture in 
any soil which is poor rather than 
rich. 
Mepica'co. — Leguminosae. — 
Weedy-looking plants, with yellow 
pea-flowers, which are generally 
single or in small clusters. The 
seed-pods of many of the species 
are very curious, some resembling 
snails, others hedgehogs, and others 
beehives. In old seed catalogues 
these names are all found enume- 
rated; but they are omitted in those 
of the present date, as the plants 
to which they belong are found not 
worth growing. 
Mevavev'ca.— Myrtacee.—Aus- 
tralian shrubs, with very singular 
tassel-like flowers, which the first 
settlers in New Holland called the 
tea trees, and which are nearly al- 
lied to Metrosideros. One species, 
M. nereijolia, which has yellow 
flowers with petals, has been re- 
moved to the genus Tristania ; M. 
Cajuputi, from which the Cajeput 
oil is made, and M. Leucadéndron, 
the Black and White Tree, are 
natives of the East Indies, and re- 
quire a stove in England; but all 
the Australian species are green- 
house plants. One of the hand- 
somest of these, M. fulgens, has its 
flowers in a long spike, which looks 
like a bottle-brush. All the kinds 
should be grown in a compost of 
sand, loam, and peat; and they are 
all propagated by cuttings. ° 
Meta'nruium.— Melanthécee.-— 
Pretty little plants with bulbous 
roots and blackish flowers, mostly 
natives of the Cape of Good Hope, 
and requiring the usual treatment 
of Cape bulbs. 
Metasro‘ma. — Melastomécea.— 
Very handsome stove shrubs, with 
large showy flowers. The leaves 
are also large and strongly ribbed. 
The fruit is eatable, and filled with 
