MALVASTRUM. 
also with the fine fronds of Cystopteris montana. Maianthemum 
canadense is our old friend multiplied in all its parts by two or a 
with the same needs and habits and values. 
Malvastrum, a race now often included under Sphaeralcea, 
contains one good thing for the rock-garden in M. coccinewm (Cristaria). 
This is an almost prostrate little Mallow (seed or cuttings), its shoots 
clothed in fine bluish-grey,.much-divided leaves (as has also M. 
campanulatum with clustered heads of large gay saucers through the 
season), and producing from their axils throughout late summer 
stalked Mallow-flowers of the most intense scarlet. This is to be 
recommended only for very warm well-drained banks in very light and 
pebbly soil of peat and much sand. JM. elatum is a tall version of 
this, and no other is of much use or beauty. (Southern States.) 
Mandragéra.—Those who yearn for the strange may grow this 
dingy innocent plant of awful reputation in any cool deep warm place 
in bed or border, at such a distance from the house, though, that you 
may sleep undisturbed at night by the screaming of its roots, suppos- 
ing a cat should take a fancy to dig it up. WM. officinarum has 
greenish yellow flowers in spring, but there is another, M. autumnalhs, 
which blooms at the.later end of the year and has purple ones. 
Margyricarpus setesus (with other species) is a little weakly - 
bush of 9 or 10 inches, with very finely-divided greyish leaves, and 
insignificant flowers that are followed in later summer by large berries 
of waxy white. It will grow in open sunny loam, and may be struck 
from cuttings. From South America, and, being evergreen, specially 
suited to flop over a sunny rock, upon which also its pearl-berries 
take their fuliest value. 
Marrubium.—No one wants to grow the common Horehound, 
but this is often sent out under the name of WM. sericeum (M. supinum), 
a dwarf decumbent mass from Spain, for a sunny shelf, all clad in 
white silk, with whorls of small lilac Labiate flowers in late summer. 
This can be as much as 2 feet high in the mass; much neater is M. 
Libanoticum, of a bare 10 inches or so, equally silky-white, with flesh- 
pink flowers ; and there are various other species, but none of special 
charm or value. 
Marsdenia erecta.—A Levantine of 2 feet recalling the Dog’s 
Banes (Vincetoxicum), and thus not ardently to be ensued. 
Marshallia caespitosa.—aA rather tender small trailing Com- 
posite from the Rockies, with oval leaves and flowers of bluish pink. 
Matthiola, a race of wild stocks to which belongs our own lovely 
M. incana, that makes such huge grey bushes in the Southern cliffs 
of the Isle of Wight, and, on its way to being the Garden Stock, bears 
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