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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Mutisia—continued. 
reddish tendril. Stem 
Chilian Andes, 1884. Greenhouse. 
M. vicizefolia (Vetch-leaved). fl.-heads orange, large, radiate ; 
involucre long, cylindrical. J. pinnate, ending in a tendril, 
like those of a. Vetch; leaflets numerous, lanceolate, acute, 
terete, striated, flexuous, wingless. 
(R. G. 1163, f. 2.) 
glabrous. Peru, Bolivia, &c., 1887. A handsome, greenhouse 
or half-hardy climber. (R. H1. 1891, p. 228.) 
MYCARANTHUS. Included under Eria (which 
see). 
MYCOLOGY. The botany of Fungi. ‘ 
MYCONIA. A synonym of Ramondia (which see). 
MYLINUM. A synonym of Selinum (which see). 
MYOPORUM. 
genus. 
MYOPSIS. A synonym of Heterotoma (which see). 
MYOSOTIS. To the species and varieties described 
on p. 403, Vol. II., the following should be added: 
M. alpestris elegantissima (most elegant). A _ pretty, 
dwarf, free-flowering variety, having white, rose, and blue 
flowers. 1883. (R. H. 1882, p. 20.) 
M. cespitosa (tufted). . having a smaller corolla, with the 
limb often slightly concave. Otherwise like M. palustris, of 
which it was formerly classed as a variety. Europe (Britain). 
Perennial. 
M. c. Reichsteineri (Reichsteiner’s).* A charming variety, 
forming dense tufts covered with blue blossoms during April 
and May, and not exceeding 2in. in height. Lake of Geneva, 
1889. 
M. cintra (banded). A synonym of M. Welwitschii. 
M. dissitifiora alba (white). #1. pure white. 1883. 
M. d. Dyerze (Mrs. Thiselton-Dyer’s). fl. larger; corolla sky- 
blue, yellow at the mouth, the limb jin. in diameter. Plant 
taller than the type. Switzerland, 1898. (B. M. 7589.) 
M. d. grandiflora (large-flowered).* jf. double the size of those 
of the type, and produced in great profusion in February. 
1886. Garden variety. 
M. d. perfecta (perfect). A very large and finely-formed 
variety. 1883. 
M. lithospermifolia (Lithospermum-leaved). ji. very large 
1. resembling those of Lithospermum purpureo- 
and numerous. f 
A form of M. sylvatica. 
Bertolonia is synonymous with this 
ceruleum. 
M. Lyalli (Lyall’s). /. very shortly pedicellate ; corolla tin. to 
yin. long; raceme short, simple or forked. /., radical ones 
oblong-spathulate or obovate-lanceolate, lin. to l4in. long; 
cauline ones narrow, linear-oblong or oblong-spathulate. Stems 
several, 2in. to 6in. high. New Zealand. A tufted perennial. 
M. oblongata (oblong). A synonym of M. sylvatica. 
M. Reichsteineri (Reichsteiner’s), A form of M. ceespitosa. 
M. scorpioides (scorpion-like). A synonym of M. palustris. 
M. semperfiorens. This by many is considered but a dwarf 
form of M. palustris. 
M. sylvatica elegantissima (very elegant). /. white, blue, 
or pink. A floriferous, dwarf form. (R. G., t. 1033.) 
M. s. grandiflora (large-flowered). A variety haying flowers 
nearly in. across. 1885. (R. G. 1885, p. 121.) There are also 
forms with white, pink, and striped flowers. 
M. Traversii (Travers’).* /. lemon-yellow, almost sessile; 
racemes densely hispid, capitate, many-flowered. /., radical 
ones narrowly linear-spathulate, obtuse, lin. to sin. long, 
narrowed to short petioles, hispid ; canline ones linear-oblong. 
h, Sin, to 8in. New Zealand, 1894. A pretty perennial, with 
the habit of M. alpestris. 
M. Welwitschii (Welwitsch’s). #. bright blue, 
yellowish-white eye, disposed in scorpioid cymes. J. ovate- 
lanceolate. fi. about 4in. Spain, 1890. Annual or biennial, of 
tufted habit. Syn. I. cintra (R. G. 1890, p. 191, f. 47). 
Varieties. The garden varieties of the Forget-Me-Nots 
are numerous. Some of the best are: Bexley Gem, 
Compacta Aurea, Distinction, Jewel, Little Queen, and 
Princess Mand. Usnally the Forget-Me-Nots are relegated 
to the beds and borders, but they are equally suited to the 
rockery and to pot cultnre. 
MYRIACTIS (from myrios, a myriad, and aktin, a 
ray; in allusion to the number of ray florets). Sy¥n. 
Botryadenia. ORD, Composite. " genus embracing 
about five species of greenhouse or half-hardy annuals, 
all Asiatic and African, allied to Brachycon:>. M. nepal- 
ensis_ (Syn. M. Gmelini) has been introduced, but 
probably it is no longer in cultivation, 
with a 
MYRIADENUS. 
see). 
MYRIALEPIS SCORTECHINI. A Palm bearing 
this name, native of Malaya, is included in the Kew 
Collection, but it is not in general cultivation, and very 
little is known concerning it. 
MYRICA. Under this genus the anthors of the 
“Genera Plantarnm”’ include Comptonia (which see) as 
M. asplenifolia. M. rubra is the correct name of the 
plant grown in gardens as M. Nagi. 
MYRIOBLASTUS. A synonym of Cryptocoryne 
(which see). 
MYRIOCARPA (from myrios, myriad, and karpos, 
fruit; alluding to the numerons fruits). Orp. Urticacez. 
A genus embracing six species of stove shrubs or small 
trees, inhabiting tropical America, from Brazil to Mexico. 
Flowers dicecious, rarely moncecious, scattered at the 
sides of the filiform branches of the rachis, the males 
often sessile and densely clustered, the females looser, 
sessile or pedicellate, often very numerous; spikes or 
racemes solitary or somewhat fascicled at the axils or 
nodes, often branched. Leaves alternate, usually ample, 
petiolate, toothed, penniveined and about three-nerved. 
Two species are known in gardens. Where room can be 
spared, they will make a bold and effective appearance. 
They thrive in good, well-drained loam, and may be 
propagated by cuttings of the young wood, 
M. longipes colipensis (long-stalked, Colipa). //., female 
inflorescence consisting of pendulous, forked spikes, 14ft. to 2ft. 
long, densely covered with small, flask-shaped ovaries. J. 14ft. 
to 14ft. long, llin. broad, elliptic, acute, rounded at base, 
crenate on the margins, clothed with rigid hairs, adpressedly 
pubescent beneath; petioles 10in. to 12in. long. Mexico, 1887. 
A shrub or small tree. SYN. Af. colipensis. 
M. stipitata (stalked). #., females more or less clustered ; 
males sub-sessile, glomerulate; primary branches of the 
inflorescence short, the ultimate ones sometimes shorter than 
the leaves. J. ovate- or obovate-elliptic, or rarely elliptic- 
lanceolate, 4in. to 7in. long, shortly acuminate at apex, 
rounded or obtuse, very rarely sub-cordate at base, unequally 
serrate-denticulate or crenulate. Mexico, Venezuela, &c. A 
shrub or small tree, 
MYRIOCEPHALUS STUARTII. The correct 
name of Polycalymma Stuartii (which see). 
MYRISTICA includes Virola. 
MYRMECODIA (from murmez, murmekos, an ant; 
in allusion to those insects making their habitation in 
the rhizomes). ORD. Rubiaceer. A genus of abont a 
score species of stove, epiphytal, highly glabrous, ‘‘ ant- 
nesting” shrubs, with a smooth or prickly, tuberons 
rhizome; they extend from Sumatra and Singapore to 
New Guinea, North Australia, and Solomon’s Archipelago. 
Flowers white, small, sessile, solitary or few; calyx 
tube ovoid, the limb very short, entire; corolla having a 
cylindrical or sub-urceolate tube, and a four-lobed limb ; 
stamens four. Leayes stalked, clustered at the tips of 
the branchlets, opposite, narrowed to rather long petioles, 
coriaceous; stipules persistent, ample, bifid; branches 
short, quadrangular, thick and fleshy. Two species are 
in cultivation in this country. They require great heat, 
Included under Zornia (which 
and should be treated like epiphytal Orchids. Seedling 
plants may be raised from the fruits. 
M. Antoinii (Antoine’s). 7. white, small. January. J. elliptiec- 
ovate, 4in. long, bright green. Tuberous base of the stem 20in. 
in circumference, covered with spines; upper portion Qin. long, 
lin. in diameter, ‘covered with imbricated, woody shields. 
Torres Straits, 1893. More curious than beautiful. (B. M. 
7517.) 
M. Beccarii (Beccari’s). ., corolla tube cylindrical, the lobes 
ovate, thick, longer than the tube. Vebruary. fr. cylindric- 
oblong, rounded at apex, four-stoned. 7. oblanceolate or 
oblong-oblanceolate, sub-acute, fleshy Tuber not ribbed, 
lobed, spinulose; spines short, simple; branches thickened- 
nodose. Tropical Australia, 1884. (B. M. 6883.) 
MYROBALAN-TREE. Sve Terminalia. 
MYROBALANUS. l[nclucled under Terminalia 
(which see). 
MYROBROMA. A synonym of Vanilla (which 
see), 
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