MATTVE. (Fr.) Malva sylvestris. — 

 bAtARDE. Malope. — EN ARBRE. La- 

 vatera. — DES INDES. Sida. — FLEU- 

 RIE. Lavatera trimestris. — , GRANDE. 

 Malva syluestris. — , PETITE. Malva 

 rotundifolia. 



MAUVISQUE. (Fr.) Malvaviscus. 



MAWSEED. Papaver somniferum. 



MAXILLARIA. Formerly this genus 

 comprised a heterogenous mass of orchids 

 which are now separated into some half- 

 dozen or more genera. It is now restricted 

 to those possessing the following cha- 

 racters :— Flowers more or less ringent ; 

 lateral sepals adhering to the column at 

 their oblique base ; lip hooded, jointed 

 with the prolonged claw-like foot of the 

 column, which is narrow, ascending ; pol- 

 len-masses four, incumbent, or the two 

 hind ones adhering to the two front ones; 

 caudicle short, attached to a semicircular 

 gland. [A. SJ 



MAXIMILIANA. The celebrated Hum- 

 boldt, in his Aspects of Nature, speaks in 

 glowing terms of the great beauty of the 

 Jagua, an undetermined species of the pre- 

 sent genus of palms, of which three or four 

 are known, natives of the forests of North- 

 ern Brazil and the West Indies. All these 

 are tall-growing trees, with slender smooth 

 trunks, bearing at the summit gigantic 

 pinnate leaves, having the narrow leaflets 

 arranged in clusters along the leaf-stalks. 

 The flower-spikes are each completely en- 

 closed in a thick woody spathe, which 

 tapers to a long point, is marked out- 

 side with deep longitudinal farrows, and 

 eventually splits open down one side. The 

 flowers are of separate sexes, either 

 mixed together on the same or on distinct 

 spikes. 



M. regia, the Inaja Palm of the Amazon, 

 has a trunk a hundred or more feet high, 

 crowned with leaves from thirty to fifty 

 feet long, and its woody spathes when 

 open frequently measure as much as five 

 or six feet in length by about two feet in 

 breadth, tapering to a long point or beak. 

 These spathes are so hard that when filled 

 with water they will stand the fire, and are 

 sometimes used by the Indians as cooking 

 utensils, but more frequently as baskets 

 for carrying mandiocca flour, &c. The 

 Indians who prepare the kind of india- 

 rubber called bottle-rubber, make use of 

 the hard stones of the fruit as fuel for 

 smoking and drying the successive layers 

 of milky juice as it is applied to the mould 

 upon which the bottles are formed. The 

 outer husk, also, yields a kind of saline 

 flour used for seasoning their food. [A. SJ 



MAT. A popular name for the flowers 

 of Crataegus Oxyacantha. —, ITALIAN. 

 Spiraea Filipendula. $g^ JJlaS-T VlH^- 

 MAY-BUSH. Cratcegus Oxyacantha.' 

 MAYACE.E, MATACA. A natural order 

 and solitary genus of hypogynous monoco- I 

 tyledons, belonging to the xyridal alliance, j 

 comprising three or four little moss-like ' 



I marsh or semi-aquatic plants allied to Xyri- 

 I dacem and Comrnelynacea?, but well distin- 

 guished by their one-celled anthers. Their 

 inconspicuous little white, pink, or violet 

 flowers have three sepals alternate with 

 the carpels, three distinct petals, three 

 stamens inserted into the base of the 

 sepals, and three carpels combined into a 

 one-celled pistil, which has a thread-like 

 style and simple stigma. The species are 

 all American, extending on the one hand 

 to Virginia, and on the other to Brazil. 

 Physiologically they are remarkable for 

 their deficiency of spiral vessels. [A. SJ 



MAYDEWEED. Pyrethrum Parthenium. 

 — , RED. Adonis autunmalis. 



MAY-DUKE. A kind of cherry. 



MAYENNE. (Fr.) Solanum esculentum. 



MAYFLOWER. Epigcea repens. -, WEST 

 INDIAN. Dalbergia Brownei, and Ecasta- 

 phyllum Brownei. 



MAY-LILY. Convallaria majalis. 



MAYNA (including Lindackeria). A 

 genus of Fiacourtiacece, distributed over 

 Mexico, New Grenada, Guiana, and Brazil, 

 and represented by middle-sized trees, 

 with- ovate or oblong coriaceous leaves, 

 polygamous flowers arranged in racemes, 

 and a round fruit, covered with numerous 

 prickles and resembling very much our 

 common horse-chestnut in outward appear- 

 ance. The sepals and petals are imbri- 

 cated ; the anthers linear, and opening by 

 two slits ; the styles completely united ; 

 and in the female flowers there appear to 

 be never more than three placentas. From 

 being imperfectly known, and on account 

 of its stipules, the genus had been placed 

 near Magnoliacete until united with Lin- 

 dackeria, and placed amongst Bixece by 

 Bentham. [B. SJ 



MAYPOLE of Jamaica. Spathelia sim- 

 plex. 



MAYS DEL MONTE. The Peruvian 

 name of Ombrophytum. 



MAYTENUS. A genus of Celastracece, 

 consisting of South American evergreen 

 shrubs or small trees, with alternate coria- 

 ceous serrate leaves, and small flowers 

 solitary or clustered in their axils. The 

 fruit contains but a single seed, as in 

 Miininda, from which this genus differs 

 chiefly in its alternate, not opposite leaves. 

 There have been near fifty species de- 

 scribed, but probably not so many are 

 really distinct. The arborescent species 

 have a very hard wood, and the leaves of 

 the commonest Peruvian species, although 

 astringent, are said to be greedily de- 

 Toured by cattle. 



MAY-WEED. Anthemis or Maruta 

 Cotula ; also Pyrethrum Parthenium. — , 

 STINKING. Matricaria Chamomilla. g 



MAYWORT. Galium cruciatum. 0l>, 



MAZI. The Turkish name for Galls. 



MAZUS. A genus of Scrophulariacecs | 



