MYGINDA. 294 MYRTUS. 
lias and Magnolias, and any other| They are generally stove plants in 
half-tender shrubs. It consists in| England, and they should be grown 
laying a quantity of straw or litter | in sandy loam. 
round the stem of the plant, so as| Myo'porum— Myoporine.—Aus- 
to cover the whole of the roots) tralian shrubs, with white flowers, 
curing winter, and either removing | generally kept in a greenhouse, and 
it or forking it into the ground in| which should be grown in peat and 
spring. | sand. 
Moxyein.—See Verca’scum. uf Myoso‘r1s—Boraginee.—M. pa- 
Mv’sa.—Musdcee.— The Plan-! listris, the Forget-me-not, delights 
tain, or Banana. Stove plants, in moist places on the borders of 
grown generally for their fruit, but running streams. M. sylvatica, 
very ornamental from their large | which is found in woods, resembles 
leaves and curious flowers. Most it, but the flowers are very inferior. 
* of the species require a great deal) Myosu‘rus. — Ranunculécee. — 
‘of room, as they will neither flower Mouse-tail—A Bnitish weed, with 
‘nor fruit till they attain a large! pretty flowers, that looks well on © 
size. They should be grown in a/ rockwork. 
rich loam kept moist, and they are| Myrt'ca. — Myricdcee. — The 
increased by suckers. The new | Candleberry Myrtle and the Sweet © 
kind, Mtsa Cavendishii, flowers Gale belong to this genus, and they 
when of a much smaller size than are both interesting to the botanist. 
any of the other kinds. | They should be grown in loam and 
Musca‘r1. — Asphodélea.— The | peat, and they are propagated by 
Grape Hyacinth. Bulbous-rooted | cuttings. 
plants that only require planting in| My’rrus—Myrtdcee—A genus 
any common garden soil; where of beautiful evergreen shrubs, na- 
they may remain several years, | tives of Europe, Asia, South Amer- 
flowering every year in succession, |ica, and some of them of New 
without any care being necessary | Holland. The common myrtle, M. 
in taking them up, &c. | commitnis, of which there are eight 
Musk Prianr.— There are two or ten very distinct varieties, is too 
plants known by this name, viz.,| well known to require any descrip- 
Mimulus moschcita, a dwarf plant tion. They are not surpassed in 
with yellow flowers; and A’ster ar-| beauty of foliage by any exotic 
gophy'llus, a tall plant with blue | shrub, and the flowers are of a pure 
flowers. | white, and, like the leaves, fragrant. 
Mori'sta.—Compésite.—Curious | The fragrance arises from an oil 
plants, with tendrils at the extrem-| which is secreted in little cells, 
ity of the leaves. They are natives| which appear as dots when the 
of Brazil, and require a stove in| leaves are held up to the light. ~ 
England. ‘They should be grown| The handsomest varieties of the 
in peat and loam, and they are common Myrtle are the Roman, 
propagated by cuttings. or broad-leaved, the broad-leaved 
Mya'nrnus.—Orchidicee.—F ly- | Dutch, the narrow-leaved, and the . 
wort. An orchideous epiphyte from | double-flowered. They will grow 
Lemerara, which should be grown|in any common soil, somewhat 
in the moist stove on half-rotten; loamy, and are propagated with 
wood.—See Orcurpeous Epiruyrtes. | most facility by cuttings of the cur- 
Myar'nna—-Rhamndicee.—-Hand- | rent year’s wood when it is just be- 
some shrubs, nearly allied to the| ginning to ripen, cut across at a 
Holly: natives of the West Indies, | *oint, and then planted in sand, and 
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