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balnea et lotiones parent in quibus artemisia non conti- 

 neatur." Like other uterine herbs it was dedicated to 

 the goddess Artemis, and thence its Latin name. 



Artemisia vulgaris, L. 



MOULD, in ink and other fluids, usually 



Hygrocrocis, Ag. 



MOULDINESS, Aspergillus, Mich. 



MOUNTAIN ASH, from its pinnate leaves called an Ash, 

 the wild service tree, Pyrus Aucuparia, L. 



MOUNTAIN COWSLIP, Primula Auricula, L. 



MOUNTAIN ELM, the wych elm, Ulmus montana, L. 



MOUNTAIN FERN, Aspidium Oreopteris, Sw. 



MOUNTAIN SORREL, Oxyria reniformis, L. 



MOUSE-BARLEY, G. maus-gerste, Sw. mus-korn, a trans- 

 lation of its Latin name, which was given to it either from 

 the belief that it was the lolium murinum of Pliny (1. xxii. 

 c. 25), or, through a confusion between murinum, of a 

 mouse, and murale, of a wall, to express that it was a wall- 

 barley; and this last is the most probable origin of the 

 name, since Tragus tells us that it was called so, because 

 it grows upon walls : " weil es von sich selbst auf den 

 Mauren wachst ;" and Dr. Wm. Turner (pt. ii. p. 17) : 

 " that it was called of the Latines Hordeum murinum^ 

 that is wall-barley." Hordeum murinum, L. 



MOUSE-EAR, from the shape of the leaf, 



Hieracium Pilosella, L. 



MOUSE-EAR CHICKWEED, Cerastium vulgare, L. 



MOUSE-EAR SCORPION-GRASS, the plant now called " For- 

 get-me-not," from its one-sided raceme being curved like 

 that creature's tail, and its small soft oval leaves, 



Myosotis palustris, L. 

 MOUSE-TAIL, from its slender cylindrical seed-spike, 



Myosurus minimus, L. 



MOUSE-TAIL GRASS, Martyn in Fl. rustica, from the 

 shape of the spike, Alopecurus agrestis, L. 



