MAYTENUS 



MECONOPSIS 



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Chile said to attain 100 ft.: branchlets pendulous: Ivs. 

 small: fls. minute, greenish, inconspicuous; aril scarlet. 

 Perfectly hardy in Calif, as far north as San Francisco, 

 and highly valued for ornamental planting; recom- 

 mended as a street and avenue tree: timber extremely 

 hard. Prop, readily from seeds, which are produced in 

 abundance, or from suckers. j. BURTT DAVY. 



MAY- WEED: Anthemis Cotula. 



MAZUS (from the teats or tubercles in the mouth of 

 the corolla). Scrophulariaceas. A half-dozen low annuals 

 or perennials, seldom grown in rock-gardens and similar 

 places in mild climates. Allied to Mimulus, from which 

 it differs in usually having the fls. in subsecund racemes 

 rather than axillary or ordinarily racemed, trailing 

 habit and technical floral characters: Ivs. opposite or 

 rosulate, or alternate above, variously toothed or cut: 

 fls. small, bluish or white; corolla-tube short, the upper 

 lip erect and 2-lobed, the throat with 2 projecting pro- 

 tuberances; stamens 4, didynamous; style slender, with 

 2-lamellate stigma. Mostly prostrate, creeping or 

 runner-bearing herbs in India, Malay Archipelago, 

 China, Austral., New Zeal. 



M. pumilio, R. Br. Small perennial, creeping underground and 

 sending up short close-leafy branches: Ivs. tufted, obovate-spatu- 

 late, obtuse, entire or somewhat sinuate-toothed: peduncles 1-6 fld., 

 usually exceeding Ivs., the fls. bluish or white with yellow center. 

 Austral., New Zeal. Listed as an "alpine." M. rodicans, Cheesem. 

 (Mimulus radieans, Hook. f.). Very low, the erect leafy branches 

 rising 1-3 in. from creeping or subterranean sts. : Ivs. close, 2 in. or 

 less long, obovate to linear-obovate, obtuse, entire or obscurely 

 sinuate: fls. 1-3 on terminal peduncles, Yz-%\n. long, white with 

 yellow center, the tube much exceeding the calyx. New Zeal. M. 

 reptans, N.E. Br. Tufted perennial, 1-2 in. high, the sts. slender, 

 prostrate and rooting at the nodes: Ivs. opposite, lanceolate to 

 elliptic, few-toothed: racemes 2-5-fld., erect; fls. purplish blue with 

 lower lip blotched white, yellow and red-purple: plant somewhat 

 resembling some of the small lobelias. Himalaya. B. M. 8554. G.C. 

 III. 53:210 (as M. rugosus). M. rugdsus, Lour. Annual, without 

 runners: radical Ivs. obovate-spatulate, crenate-dentate: peduncles 

 many from the root, 2-10 in. long; fls. blue. India. 



MEADOW BEAUTY: Rheiia. M. Foxtail: Alopecurus pratensis 

 (a meadow grass). M. Pink: Dianthus delioides. M. Rue: Thalictrum. 

 M. Saffron: Colchicum. M. Sweet: Filipendula. M. Tulip: 

 Calochortus. 



MECpNOPSIS (Greek, poppy-like). Papaveracese. 

 Poppy-like herbs, annual and perennial, useful as 

 garden flower plants. 



Simple or rarely much-branched plants with yellow 

 juice, annual or biennial (monocarpic: seeding but once) 

 or perennial, with showy large yellow, reddish or blue 

 fls. in cymose racemes or panicles or borne singly: Ivs. 

 stalked when radical, short-stalked or sessile when 

 cauline, entire, lobed, or dissected: sepals 2, usually 

 deciduous; petals 4, varying to 5-10; stamens many; 

 stigmas forming a globular mass or body on the several- 

 to many-carpelled ovary: caps, oblong to clavate or 

 even cylindrical, 1-celled with 4 or more projecting 

 placentae, opening by short teeth or valves at the sum- 

 mit. Species 28 as defined by Fedde (Das Pflanzen- 

 reich, hft. 40. 1909), in the northern extra-tropical 

 regions, mostly in Asia, 2 in W. N. Amer.; other species 

 have been described subsequently. In 1906, Prain 

 admitted 27 species (Ann. Bot. XX, pp. 323-365). 



"The species of Meconopsis have recently come into 

 much prominence, mostly as herbaceous perennial sub- 

 jects for borders and rock-gardens. Heretofore these 

 plants have been known mostly by M. cambrica and 

 M . heterophylla, but within ten or twelve years many 

 attractive species have been introduced from the high 

 elevations in the China-Thibet region. It is probable 

 that the genus will have a great extension of popularity 

 among gardeners. Hybrids already have appeared. 

 Coming from high altitudes, they may be treated as 

 hardy plants. They propagate readily from seed sown 

 directly in the open in spring, or they may be started 

 under glass and transplanted. The annual-biennial 

 species may be carried as seedlings in pots the first 

 summer and planted out in autumn if it is desired to 



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bloom them the second year. They require partial 

 shade. The Chinese and Himalayan species are essen- 

 tially alpines, and it is probable that they would not 

 withstand the American summers without very spe- 

 cial treatment. Their availability here is yet to be 

 determined. 



INDEX. 



aculeata, 5. 

 bella, 13. 

 cambrica, 1. 

 chelidonifolia, 2. 

 crassifolia, 3. 

 Delavayi, 14. 

 flore-pleno, 1. 



grandis, 16. 

 Henrici, 15. 

 heterophylla, 3. 

 integrifolia, 9. 



pseud-jintegrifolia, 10. Wallichii, 4. 

 punicea, 11. 



racemosa, 8. 

 rudis, 7. 

 simplicifolia, 12. 

 sinuata, 6. 

 Wallichiana, 4. 



A. Sts. branching: st.-lvs. pinnate or pinnately parted 

 B. Fls. yellow. 



1. cambrica, Vig. (Papaver cdmbricum, Linn.). 

 WELSH POPPY. Perennial, forming large tufts with 

 thick roots: sts. slender, 



about 1 ft. high: Ivs. long- 

 stalked, pale green, slightly 

 hairy, pinnate, dentate, with 

 5-7 segms. which are ovate 

 or lanceolate and toothed or 

 pinnately lobed: fls. rather 

 large, long - peduncled, pale 

 yellow: caps, oblong or ovate, 

 glabrous, containing reni- 

 form-oval blackish seeds: fls. 

 standing well above the mass 

 of attractive foliage. Rocky 

 woods and shady places. W. 

 Eu. G.C. III. 19: 671; 54: 52. 

 Var. fl6re-pleno, Hort., is a 

 double-fld. form. It is de- 

 scribed as a very showy and 

 worthy plant, with the very 

 double yellow fls. striped 

 scarlet. G.M. 46:373. 



2. chelidonifdlia, Dur. & 

 Franch. Perennial, rhizoma- 

 tous, glaucous, 2 ft., the st. 

 branching and leafy and glab- 

 rous above, at first erect 

 but becoming prostrate: Ivs. 

 mostly basal, glaucous 

 beneath, setulose, ovate- 

 deltoid or ovate-oblong, pin- 

 nately parted, the segms. 

 ovate and cut with the ter- 

 minal part 3-lobed: fls. on 

 slender axillary wiry pe- 

 duncles twice exceeding Ivs., 

 clear yellow: caps, ovate, 

 glabrous, small. Cent. Asia 

 to W. China. 



BB. Fls. red. 



3. heterophylla, Benth. 

 (Papaver heterophyllum, 

 Greene). WIND POPPY. FLAM- 

 ING POPPY. Fig. 2341. An- 

 nual, glabrous, 1-2 ft.: Ivs. pinnate or pinnately cut, 

 the segms. diverse on the same plant and varying from 

 oval and entire or lobed to narrow-linear: fls. brick-red 

 with darker center, satiny texture; petals broadly 

 cuneate-obovate. Calif., Nev., Ore. G.C. III. 29:413; 

 55:19. An attractive plant. Var. crassif&lia, Jepson 

 (M. crassifolia, Benth.). BLOOD DROPS. Rather smaller 

 and more branching and bearing more fls.: Ivs. mostly 

 radical, smaller and thicker. Calif. 



BBB. Fls. blue. 



4. Wallichii, Hook. (M. Wallichiana, Hort.). SATIN 

 POPPY. Tall, 3-6 ft., somewhat glaucous, making a 



2341. Meconopsis hetero- 

 phylla. 



