MITELLA. 
M. radicans = Mazus radicans, q.v. 
i. repens is a glabrous succulent little densely-creeping species, 
rare in the salt marshes of both Islands of New Zealand, with smooth 
oblong toothless leaves in pairs opposite to each other, emitting from 
their axils in succession single stems of half an inch or so, each carry- 
ing a single funnel-shaped blossom of white and lilac with a golden 
throat, in lovely contrast to the leaves on which they lie. It isa capital 
carpet for sheltered and moist levels. 
M. ringens has square stems of 2 or 3 feet, embraced by oblong 
leaves, and bearing very large violet flowers of an inch and a half. 
(From the bogs of Manhattan, &c.) Closely similar to this is M. alatus, 
from the bogs of Kentucky, Connecticut, &c., only differing in that the 
leaves do not embrace the stems, but thin out to a leaf-stalk, continu- 
ing down it ina leafy flap or wing. 
M. rubellus is some 2 to 8 inches high, with rather small pink 
blooms that greatly vary. 
Mirabilis multifiera.—The many-flowered Jalap is a quite 
hardy species from the Rockies, making a lushy leafy bush about a foot 
high, and more across, filled, all through the summer, with trumpets 
of shining rosy-red. It should have a specially sunny place, however, 
in soil especially light and deep and well-drained. 
Mitchella repens.—The Partridge-berry of Northern America 
is a neat charming Rubiad, well repaying the careful culture that it 
asks in a cool peaty stony place in shade (especially, in nature, of 
Conifers), where it will branch freely and run over the place, with 
dainty flat sprays of dark-green glossy evergreen leaves, small and oval 
and opposite each other in pairs, ejaculating pairs also of sweet little 
white flowers like long-tubed four-lobed jasmine-stars, from April to 
June. No less charming is the similar-habited M. undulata from 
the forests of Japan, with big boat-shaped bracts or cups cut into a 
few wide, deep, and sharp bays, from which issue the exaggeratedly 
long white tubes of the twinned flowers, opening at the end into four 
white lobes, fantastically fringed in white fluff. The flowers are fol- 
lowed in Mitchella by scarlet berries; but the plant then considers 
it has done enough for man, and the fruits, though possibly dear to the 
partridge, are savourless to human beings. 
Mitella.—This is a woodland American family, like very small 
and dainty Tiarellas in the leaf and habit, and suited to the same cul- 
ture in cool mossy corners of the garden. Their beauties are of the 
modest and evasive persuasion, the flowers being merely small greenish 
disks up a naked stem of some 6 to 10 inches in June; but closer 
inspection will show their extreme delicate loveliness, for each of the 
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