218 Select Plants for Industrial Culture 



plant develops most luxuriantly during summer. The Australian 

 aborigines use the root for food. The plant would prove hardy in 

 Middle Europe. 



Milium effusum, Linn6. 



English Millet-Grass. Europe, North- and Middle-Asia, North- 

 America. Perennial, suited for damp forest-land particularly, the 

 pastural capabilities of which it enhances. On river-banks it attains 

 a height of 6 feet. It is relished by cattle. The seeds can be used 

 like millet, the stems for the manufacture of superior straw-hats. It 

 is a great favorite with pheasants and many other birds for the sake 

 of its seeds, which ripen early in the season. Indigenous in Norway 

 as far north as lat. 71 7' (Schuebeler). Nutritious hay to the 

 extent of 3 tons on an acre obtainable from this grass (Coleman). 



Mimosa rubicaulis, Lamarck. 



India. A hedge-bush, almost inapproachable. It has proved 

 hardy at Melbourne, enduring some frost. 



Mimusops globosa, Gaertner. 



Central America. Tree, reaching a height of about 120 feet, 

 perhaps fit like many other Sapotoea3 for frostless extra-tropic regions. 

 The milky juice from cuts into the stem when exsiccated forms the 

 Balata of commerce, a substance in its qualities allied both to Gutta- 

 percha and India-rubber (Jenman). 



Mimusops Sieberi, A. de CandoUe. 



West-Indies and Florida. Tree reaching 30 feet in height. Fruit 

 of agreeable taste (Sargent). 



Monarda didyma, Linne. 



Eastern North- America. Hardy to lat. 59 55' in Norway. A 

 perennial odorous herb, producing the medicinal Oswego- or Beebalm- 

 Tea. M. fistulosa, L., and several others are also of very strong 

 scent. Their volatile oil contains thymol. 



Monarda punctata, Linn& 



Eastern North- America, where it is called " Native Horse-mint." 

 Bees extract an astonishing quantity of honey from this plant. M. 

 citriodora (Cervantes) is an allied lemon-scented species, extending 

 from the South- Western States to Mexico. 



Monodora Angolensis, Welwitsch. 



Tropical West-Africa, up to the comparatively cool elevation of 

 3,500 feet. A tree attaining 30 feet in height. The pleasantly 

 aromatic seeds come into the market, like those of the following 

 species ; they measure about half an inch in diameter and are produced 

 in numbers. 



Monodora Myristica, Dunal. 



West-Africa. A small tree. The seeds serve as nutmegs. 



