MIMULUS. 250 MONANTHES. 
tivated; the former however is a! springmg up and flowering abun- 
shrub, and the latter an annual or | dantly every spring. The shrubby 
biennial. Both may be raised on a / kinds are now separated from the 
hotbed in spring, with the tender | others, and formed into a new ge- 
‘annuals; and either kept in pots| nus, under the name of Diplacus. 
throughout the summer, or turned, (See Dr'pracus.) The name of 
out into the open border about the | Monkey-plant alludes to the seeds, 
end of May. Many species for-| which are marked so as to bear 
merly included under the genus; some resemblance to the face of a 
Mimosa are now removed to Aca-| monkey. 
cia; the principal distinction be- Mirra sitis.— Nyctaginee.— The 
tween the genera being that Mimo-| Marvel of Peru. These plants, 
sa has a jointed seed-pod, which | though generally treated as annuals, 
Acacia has not. Several other) have fusiform tuberous roots, which 
~ genera have also been formed out | may be taken up every year and re- 
of Mimosa. Some of the kinds are | planted, like those of the Dahlia 
stove-plants; others thrive in a| They requirea rich soil. 
greenhouse; and M. margindta,| Muirse'xt1a.—Leguminose. — An 
Dec., the M. prostraia of the nur-| Australian shrub, with pretty pea- 
series, is sufficiently hardy to stand | flowers; which is generally kept in 
ordinary winters against a conserva-| a greenhouse in British gardens.— 
tive wall. They should be all grown | See AusTraLian Survss. 
in a mixtureof loam and peat; and| MistLeroxe.—See Vi'scum. 
they are propagated by seeds orcut-| Mo xucce’itta.—Labidte.- Mol- 
tings. davian Balm. A hardy annualy 
Myr'mutus. — Scrophularinee. — ose only requires sowing in March 
The Monkey-flower. The first Mi-| or April, in the open border, m any 
M. ringens, in the time o cit Mory.—A kind of garlic, with 
and M. glutindsus, a shrubby spe-| very pretty yellow flowers.—See 
cies, with orange flowers, was the | A’LLiuM. 
second. Since then numerous spe- Momo'rpica. — Cucurbitacee, — 
cies have been introduced from |The Squirting Cucumber. An an. 
North and South America, annuals | nual gourd-like plant, with woolly 
and perennials, and one other shrub. | leaves, and yellow flowers, the fruit 
All the herbaceous kinds of Mimu-| of which resembles a small cucum- 
lus cross freely with each other, and | ber; and which, when ripe, bursts 
thus a great number of showy p! lants | the moment it is touched, scattering 
have been raised »#particularly by | its seeds, and the half-liquid, pulpy 
Mr. James M’Nab, of the Experi- | matter in which they are contained, 
mental Garden, Edinburgh. They |to a considerable distance. This 
should all be grown in a compost | quality made it a favourite, in gar- 
of peat and loam, and supplied abun-| dens, a century ago, when some 
dantly with water; indeed, when | people were yet in a state of su 
grown in pots, they should be kept: cient barbarism to find amuseme 
constantly standing in saucers full|.in the annoyance of others ; but it 
of water. They are all very nearly | has now deservedly fallen into dis. 
hardy; and M. réseus, M. cardind- | repute, and is seldom grown. 
lis, and M. moschata, will grow in| Mowna'nrues. — Crassuldcee. — 
mulus introduced into >of er | comimon garden soiul—See ANNUALS. 
the open air for several years | Sempervivum Monanthes, a kind of © 
without any protection, dying down | House-leek, with red flowers, from 
to the ground in winter, — Canary Isles. 
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