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MOLDAVIAN PALM. Dracoce'phalum 

 Molda'vicum. 



MOLDENHAU'ERA. (Named after 7. J. 

 Moldenhauer, a German botanist. Nat. 

 ord., Ley uminous Plants [Fabacese]. Linn., 

 10-Decandria \-Monoyynia. Allied to 

 S \vartzia.) 



Stove evergreen shrub. Cuttings of ripened 

 shoots in sand, under a glass, in heat ; rich, sandy 

 loam. Winter temp., 50 to 55; summer, 60 

 to 75. 



M. floribu'nda (many-flowered). Yellow. May. 

 Brazil. 1828. 



MOLE CRICKET. One of the ^ most 

 curious, and often most destructive to 

 our kitchen-garden crops of all the sub- 

 terranean vermin, is the Mole-cricket, 

 known, in different parts of England, by 

 the various names of Earth-crab, Jarr- 

 worm, Churr-worrn, and Efe-churr. It 

 is the Gryllotalpa vulgaris and Europcea 

 of some naturalists, and the Gryllus 

 gryllotalpa of others. It rarely appears 

 upon the surface of the soil, but makes 

 burrows, like the mole, and destroys all 

 roots which interrupt him in forming 

 these passages. When full-grown, it is 

 nearly two inches long, and four lines 

 broad ; colour, dark brown ; antennae, 

 bristle-shaped, and in front of its black 

 eyes ; thorax, hairy ; wings, broad, large, 

 and triangular when fully opened ; abdo- 

 men, nine or ten-jointed, furnished at the 

 end with two hairy, awl-shaped filaments. 

 The two fore-feet are broad, like those of 

 the mole, and similarly intended for dig- 

 ging. The female hollows out a place, 

 about half a foot from the surface, in the 

 month of June, and lays her eggs in a 

 heap, from two to three hundred. They 

 are shining yellowish-brown, and like 

 grains of millet. The young, which are 

 hatched in July or August, greatly re- 

 semble black ants, and feed, like tbe old 

 ones, on the tender roots of grass, corn, 

 and various culinary vegetables. They 

 betray their presence under the earth by 

 the withered decay of culinary vegetables 

 in the garden. In October and November 

 they bury themselves deeper in the earth, 

 as a protection from cold, and come again 

 to the surface in the warmer days in 

 March. Their presence is discovered by 

 their throwing up the earth like moles. 

 The surest of remedies is destroying 

 the brood in June or July. Gardeners 

 know, from experience, where the nest of 

 the Mole-cricket is situated ; they dig it 

 out with their spades, and destroy hun- 



dreds in the egg state with little trouble.. 

 Kollar. 



MO'LTKIA. ( Named after Count Moll fee, 

 a Danish noble. Nat. ord., Borageworte 

 [BoraginaceffiJ. Linn., 5-Pentandria 1- 

 Monogynia. Allied to Echium.) 



Hardy herbaceous perennial. Division of the 

 plant in spring ; rich, sandy loam. 

 M. c#r7e(blue). 1. Blue. April. Persia. 1829. 



MOLUCCE'LLA. Molucca Balm. (From 

 Molucca, where the plants were supposed 

 to be natives. Nat. ord., Labiates [Lami- 

 acese]. Linn., \k-Didynamia 1-Gymno- 

 spermia. Allied to Phlomis.) 



Hardy plants, with purple flowers, flowering in 

 July. Tubero'sa, by dividing the tubers in spring 

 and Autumn. This, and also the others, which are 

 annuals, by seed in a hotbed, in spring ; potted, 

 hardened off, and transferred to the flower-border 

 iu the middle of May ; sandy loam. 

 M. laSnis (smooth). l. Syria. 1570. 



Marruftia' strum (Marrubiastrum). 1. Syria. 



J820. 



tubero'sa (tuberous-rooted), 2. Tartary. 1/96. 

 MO'LY. A' Ilium mo'ly. 



MONA'RDA. ( Named after N. Monardez, 

 a physician of Seville. Nat. ord., Labiates 

 [Lamiacese]. Linn., 2-Diandria \-Mono- 

 gynia. Allied to Salvia.) 



Hardy herbaceous perennials, all but arista' ta 

 natives of North America. Division of the plant 

 in spring ; co ximon soil. 



M. amplexicau'lis (stem-embraced). 2. White, 

 pink. June. 1850. 



arista' ta (awned). 2. Yellow. August. S. 



Amer. 1825. 



Bradburia'na (Bradbury's). Pale red. June. 



clinopo'dia (basil-teaoed). 2. Purple, white. 



July. 1771. 



di'dyma (twin. Oswego-tea). 3. Scarlet. July. 



1752. 



fistula's a (hollow-stalked). 3. Purple. July. 



1656. 

 flo 're-macula 'to (spotted -flowered). 3. 



Rose-spotted. June. 1832. 

 mo' His (soft). 2. Lilac. July. 1656. 



gra'cilis (slender). 14. Purple. July. 1820. 



punctu'ta (dotted). 2. Yellow, brown. Au- 



gust. 1714. 



Russetlia'na ( Russell's). 2. White. Septem- 



ber. 1823. 



MONARDE'LLA. (A diminutive of Mo- 

 narda. Nat. ord., Labiates, or Lipworts 

 [Lamiaceoe]. Linn., \-Didynamia 1- 

 Gymnospermia. Allied to Origanum.) 



Hardy herbaceous perennial. Division of the 

 plant in spring ; common, sandy soil, with a little 

 peat or leaf-mould. 



M.undula'ta (wavy), f. Violet. June. Cali- 

 fornia. 1848. 



MONE'TIA. (Named after Monet de la 

 March, a French botanist, Nat. ord., 

 Hollyworts [Aquifoliaceaj]. Linn., 4- 

 Tetrandria 1-Monogyma, Allied to Pri- 

 nos.) 



