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to settle until it gets clear, and then bot- 

 tle for. use. One gill only of this is to 

 be mixed with five gallons of water, and 

 syringed freely over the plants, care being 

 taken not to let it drop on expanded 

 flowers or ripe fruit, as its odor is very 

 disagreeable. 



Miniatus. Of a vermilion color; pure red 

 with a little yellow. 



Mitnform. Formed like a miter. 



Mdli*. Soft. 



Man. In Greek compounds means one; 

 as monanthes, one-flowered. 



Monadelphous. Having all the stamens 

 united by their filaments into a tube. 



Monandrous. Having only one stamen. 



Monanthus. Either where each peduncle 

 bears a single flower, or where the plant 

 produces only one flower. 



Moniliform. Formed like a necklace ; that 

 is to say, with alternate swelh'ngs resem- 

 bling beads. 



Monocarpous. Producing fruit but once in 

 its life, as an annual. 



Monochlamydeous. Having but one floral 

 envelope. 



Monocotyledons, (Endogenas, Endogens, Am- 

 phihrya.) One of the primary classes in 

 the natural system, consisting of plants 

 having only one cotyledon. The sub- 

 classes are, Dictyogence, Petaloideat or 

 Floi-idce, and Glumiferce or Glumacece. 



Monoecious. Having male and female or- 

 gans in different flowers on the same 

 plant. 



Monogamic. Having flowers distinct from 

 each other, and not collected in a head. 



Monogynous. Having but one style, even 

 though many carpels be present. 



Monopetcdous. Having one petal; having 

 all the petals united by their edges. 



Monosepalous. Having one sepal; having 

 all the sepals united by their edges. 



MUL 



Morphology. That department of botany 

 which treats of the forms and modifica- 

 tions of the organs of plants. 



Moschatus. Possessing the odor of musk. 



Mucous, Mucose. Covered with a slimy se- 

 cretion, or with a coat that is readily sol- 

 uble in water, and becomes slimy; re- 

 sembling mucus. 



Mucronaie. Abruptly terminated by a hard, 

 sharp point; thus, mucronato-serrate is 

 when the serratures terminate in a hard, 

 sharp point. 



Mulching. Placing leaves or rough litter 

 around newly planted trees to prevent 

 evaporation from the soil has been long 

 practiced. Good cultivators apply leaves, 

 rough manure, etc., to the surface of the 

 soil to protect the roots of certain plants 

 against the action of frost, it being useful, 

 not so much against freezing as to pre- 

 vent alternate freezing and thawing. In 

 Strawberry culture, the mulch applied in 

 the fall protects the roots during winter; 

 it is allowed to remain on the bed, where, 

 if thick enough, it keeps down weeds, 

 and prevents the evaporation of moisture 

 from the soil during the dry time we are 

 apt to have between the flowering and 

 the ripening of the Strawberry. The 

 utility of a mulch is not confined to the 

 Strawberry among fruits; Raspberries 

 and Currants are much benefited by it; 

 and the finer varieties of English Goose- 

 berries, a fruit with which very few suc- 

 ceed in our hot summers, can be success- 

 fully grown when so treated. Newly 

 planted trees, whether of fruit or orna- 

 mental kinds, are much benefited by a 

 mulch, and its application often settles 

 the question of success or failure. We 

 have known a whole Pear orchard to be 

 mulched, and the owner thought its cost 

 was more than repaid by saving the fall- 



