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lower part of the spike being frequently 

 covered with black spines ; both sexes of 

 flowers have a three-parted or three-sepaled 

 calyx, and a three-petaled corolla. The 

 fruits are globular and fleshy, and contain 

 a hard smooth pitted stone. [A. S.J 



MARTYNIA. A genus of Pedaliacece, 

 mostly confined to Mexico. It consists of 

 branching herbaceous plants covered with 

 clammy hairs, and having roundish some- 

 what heart-shaped leaves, and spikes of 

 flowers of which the calyx is divided into 

 five nearly equal pieces, and the irregular 

 bell-shaped corolla is unequally flve-lobed 

 and puffed out below. The fruit is a hard 

 woody wrinkled capsule terminating in two 

 curved beaks or hooks, and is divided into 

 four cells containing several large seeds, 

 if. fragrans is an annual, two or three feet 

 high, occasionally seen in our gardens, 

 where it thrives in the open air during the 

 summer months, producing spikes of large 

 rich purplish-red flowers streaked with yel- 

 low, and exhaling a most delicious odour. 

 Its singular fruits are prolonged upwards 

 into two curved sharp hooked horns Wiree 

 or four inches long, which cause great an- 

 noyance to travellers in Mexico by catch- 

 ing hold of their clothes. Another species, 

 M. proboscidea. is called Testa di Qunglia 

 by the Italians; while the Mexicans give 

 the name of Uneruis Diaboli to the short 

 hooked fruit of M. triloba. [A. SJ 



MARUM. vFr.) Teucrium Mamm. 



MARUTA. A genus proposed by Cassini, 

 and adopted by De Candolle, for the Anthe- 

 mis Cotula, and one or two other species, 

 which have the ray florets neuter and bar- 

 ren. M. Cotula is a common cornfield weed 

 with a very disagreeable smell, closely re- 

 sembling in all other respects several other 

 species of Anthemis, with which genus 

 many botanists reunite it. 



MARVEL OF PERU. Mirabilis. 

 MARY-BUD. Calendula officinalis. 

 MARY'S FLOWER. Anastatica hiero- 

 chuntina ; also Marianifius. 



MARZUOTO. A kind of sprino: corn 

 grown in Tuscany, the straw of which is 

 used for plaiting. 



MASCULAR, MASCULINE. Whatever 

 belongs to the stamens. 



MASDEVALLIA. A considerable genus 

 of South American orchids, of the tribe 

 Malaxeo?,consisting of little epiphy tes.with 

 creeping rootstocks, and broad leaves nar- 

 rowed downwards into stalks. It is well dis- 

 tinguished by its flowers, which are borne 

 singly on radical stalks, having the sepals 

 joined into a tube, except at their apices, 

 ! where they are free and drawn out into 

 long narrow tails. The petals are free, very 

 small, and concealed in the tube of the 

 sepals, as also is the lip, which is sessile 

 and articulated with the incurved half- 

 rounded column. They are more remark- 

 able for the singularity of their flowers 

 than for their beauty. [A. S.] 



MASER-TREE. Acer campestre. 



MASH. An Indian name for Phascolus 

 radiatns, a kind of pulse. 



MASKED. The same as Personate. A 

 body is also said to be masked when its 

 true nature is concealed or disguised. 



MASK-FLOWER. Alonsoa. 



MASSE AU BEDEAU. (Fr.) Bunias 

 Erucago. — D'EAU. Typha latifolia. 



MASSES. Collections of anything in un- 

 usual quantity ; as, for example, pollen- 

 masses, which are unusual collections of 

 pollen. 



MASSETTE. (Fr.) Typha. 



MASSONIA. A genus of Cape bulbs, 

 belonging to the Liliacece. The leaves are 

 commonly two in number, and lie flat on 

 the ground ; and the flowers are in an um- 

 bel-like head nearly sessile between the 

 leaves and surrounded by a many-leaved 

 scarious involucre. The perianth is salver- 

 shaped, usually white, with a six-parted 

 spreading or reflexed limb. These plants 

 have but little beauty, but their appear- 

 ance is very singular. [J. T. S.] 



MAST ACANTHUS. A genus established 

 by Endlicher to receive a verbenaceous 

 plant which has been since referred to 



Caryopteris. [W. O] 



MASTER-WORT. Tmperatoria ; also As- 

 iranlia. — , ENGLISH. .Egopodium. — , 

 GREAT. Imperatoria Ostrathium. 



MASTIC DES INDES. (Fr.) ScMnus. 

 — DE SYRIE. Teucrium Marum. 



MASTICH. The resiniferous Pistacia 

 Lentiscus. — , BARBARY. Pistacia atlan- 

 tica. — , WEST INDIAN. Bursera gum- 

 mifera. 



MASTWOOD, YELLOW. Tobinia coria- 

 cca. 



MASTWORTS. Lindley's name for the 



Corylacece. 



MASUR. An Indian name for Ervum 

 Lens. 



MATAR. An Indian name for Peas. 



MATAYBA, A Guiana tree described as 

 a genus of Sapindacea?, as yet imperfectly 

 known, but supposed to be a species of 

 Cupania. 



MATE. A South American name for 



Hex paraguayensis. ■ 



MATFELLON. Centaurea nigra. 



MATHEE. An Indian name for Trigo- 

 nella fcenum gracum. 



MATHER. Anthemis or Maruta Cotula. 



MATHEWSIA. A genus of Crwiferm, 

 forming a branched Chilian shrub, having 

 somewhat fasciculate linear-lanceolate pin- 

 natifid leaves clothed with fine stellate 

 hairs, and bearing elongated terminal ra- 

 cemes of rather large flowers. The pouch 

 is two-valved, elliptical or lanceolate, sur- 



