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Mi-crom-e’-lum 
mi-croph-yl'la 
mi-cros-tach’-y -a 
Mi-crot’-rop-is 
Mid-dlé-to'ni-4-na 
Mi-li-u’-sa 
Mil-let’-ti-a 
Mil-ling-to’-ni-a 
Mi-mo’-sa 
Mi-mo’-see 
mi-mo’-s0-i -dés 
Mi-mul-us 
Mi-mus-ops 
min j-a’-ta 
min’-or 
min-v’-tif-lo’-ra 
Mi-quel’-i-a 
Mi-guel’-i-i 
mi-ra’-bil-e 
Mis-canth’-us ... 
Misch’-od-on ... 
mis-si-o’-nis 
mi’s-ta 
mi-tis : 
Mit-re’ -phor-a a 
mo-ac-ur -Yo-i-dés’ 
Mod-ec’-ca 
mod-i-ol-’or’mis 
mol]-es’-tia 
Mol’-lé e. meg 
~mol’-le 
mol-lis-sim-a ... 
mol-li’-gin-if-ol’-i-a . 
mol-uc-ca’-na ° 
mon-ac-anth’-a 
mon-an’-dra ,., 
Hila icadl 
PRONUNCIATION AND DERIVATION. 
mikros, mélon (Greek), small small UTD fruit ; (all :) small 
berry : 
(Greek), with small leaves ; 
(Greek), with a small spike of flowers 3 
mikros, tropis (Greek), small, ship’s keel ; (all :) fruit ; 
(com.) of middleton ; 
Derivation uncertain, perhaps meilisso (Greek), to soothe ; (all :) 
velvetty organs ; 
(com.) J. A. Millet [ (pr :) mee-yay |, French botanist of the 18th 
century (N. 2/366) ; 
(com.) Thomas Millington, English botanist of the 18th century 
writer on Vegetable physiology (N. 2/866) ; : 
mimos (Greek) : mimic; (all:) leaves sensitive and fold up on 
being touched (N. 2/ 370) ; 
(Latin), Mimosa sub-order of the Leguminose Family, or Order; 
(Greek), resemblig gi sesittve plant (mimosa); 
mimulus (Latin), a small ape; (all:) ringent corolla 
(N. 2/370) ; : 
Mimos, ops (Greek), ape, face; (all:) form of the corolla 
(N. 2/371) ; i 
(Latin), vermilion, scarlet with an admixture of yellow 
| between coccinews, and cinnabarinus |; 
(Latin), smaller ; 
(Latin), with minute flowers ; 
(com.) Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel [(pr.) Free-dreek Arn- 
ton Vil-helm Mee-kell.] 1811--1871 noted German botanist 
and physician, professor of botany at Utrecht in Holland ; 
(com.) of F, A. W. Miquel ; 
(Latin), wonderful ; 
miskos, anthos (Greek), stem, flower; (al/:) the tall stems, 
(N, 2/372) ; 
mischo |late form of miqnimi]|, ddous (g. ddontos) (Greek), to 
mingle, tooth ; (all :) form of the ovary and capsule ; 
(Latin), of the mission : alluding sometimes to the collections 
of Heyne, Klein and Rottler of the Tranquebar mission in 
the herbarium of Wallich: 
(Latin), mized, or confused ; 
(Latin), mild, free from harskness, soft ; 
mitré, phoreo (Greek), mitre, to bear; (2ll:) outer petals cohere 
and are vaulted, resembling a mitre ; 
(quasi-Greek), resembling moacurra (Chailletia gelonioides) 
[moakurra Bengali] ; 
modikka (Telugu), name of the plant (McL. 3/662; N. 
2/375) ; 
(Latin), nave shaped, hollow, round, depressed, with a very 
narrow orifice ; 
(Latin), troublesome ; in the case of Memecylon it upsets the 
system of arrangement adopted; 
Mulli (Peruvian); native name for Peruvian Mastic tree . 
(Schinus) ; 
(Latin), soft ; 
(Latin), very soft ; 
(Latin), with leaves like Indian Chickweed (moljlugo) [name used 
by Pliny (Br. 14)}; 
(loc.) pertaining to the Moluccas, or Spice Islands, in the Indian 
Archipelago between Celebes and Papua, of which Gilolo, 
Ternate, Amboyna, Ceram, Buru and Banda are the most 
important ; more broadly speaking, the Molucca Islands of 
the Indian Archipelago include also Borneo group, Java 
group, Sumatra group, Lesser Sunda group and the Celebes 
group, as well ; 
(Greek), with one thorn ; rd 
(Greek), with one stamen; 
