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MILFOIL. Achillea Millefolium. — , 

 HOODED. Utricular ia. — , WATER. My- 

 riophyllum ; also Hottonia palustris. 



MILHO. A Brazilian name for Maize. 



MILIARY GLANDS. The same as 



Stomates. 



MILIUM. A genus of grasses belonging 

 to the tribe Panicece. The inflorescence is 

 in large loose panicles ; glumes herbace- 

 ous ; pales thin and membranaceous, near- 

 ly equal, hardening on the seed. Steudel 

 describes fourteen species, which have a 

 considerable range over the globe, though 

 mostly natives of the temperate parts of 

 it. M. effusum is one of the handsomest 

 grasses belonging to the British Flora, and 

 is moreover a valuable species for grow- 

 ing under the dense shade of trees, where 

 it forms a beautiful plant. The large ! 

 seeds are useful for pheasants, which feed I 

 on them. [D. MJ : 



MILK-TREE. Tanghinia tactaria. 



MILK-VESSELS. Those tubes which | 

 contain the milky fluids. See Cinekchyma ] 

 and Laticiferous Vessels. 



MILKWEED. Asclepias. —, GREEK 

 Acerates. 



MILK-WOOD. Pseudolmedia (formerly 

 j Brosimum) spurium ; also Sideroxylon iner- 

 | me. 



MILKWORT. Polygala. — , BITTER. 

 | Polygala amara. —, SEA. Glaux mariti- 



i ma. 



MILLA. A genus of Liliacece from Mex- 

 ico. The species have thickened fleshy 

 fibrous roots, radical cylindrical hollow 

 leaves, and white Ions-stalked terminal um- 

 bellate flowers : the perianth salver-shaped 

 with an elongate bell-shaped tube, and a 

 six-cleft flat limb, and the six stamens in- 

 serted in its throat. The capsule is three- 

 celled, three-valved, containing numerous 

 seeds with a black seed-coat. [J. T. S.] 



MILLEFEUILLE. (Fr.) Achillea Mille- 

 folium. 



MILLEPERTUIS. (Fr.) Hypericum. — 

 DE MAHON. Hypericum balearicum. 



MILLERIA. A branching pubescent or 

 hairy annual, a native of Mexico and some 

 parts of tropical South America, forming a 

 genus of Compositce of the tribe Helianthece. 

 The leaves are opposite, the flower-heads 

 small on terminal dichotomous peduncles. 

 The involucre has only three to five bracts, 

 and the head contains but few yellow flo- 

 rets, one ligulate and female, the others 

 tubular and male. The receptacle has no 

 scales, and the achene is without pappus. 



MILLET. A common name for various 

 species of small seed corn ; more particu- 

 larly Panicum miliaceum and miliare. — , 

 GERMAN". A variety of Setaria italica. — , 

 INDIAN. Sorghum vulgare. —, ITALIAN. 

 Setaina italica. 



MILLET. (Fr.) Milium ; also Panicum 

 miliaceum. — DTNDE. Zea Mays. — DES 



OISEAUX. Setaria italica. — GRAND. 

 Sorghum vulgare. — LONG. Phalaris cu- 

 nariensis. — NOIR. Sorghum. 



MILLETIA. A genus of Leguminosce of 

 the suborder Papilionacece, allied on the 

 one hand to Wistaria, and on the other to 

 Lonchocarpus&nd. Pongamia. distinguished 

 from the former chiefly by the want of any 

 inflected appendages at the base of the 

 upper petal or standard, and from the two 

 latter by the pod opening in two rather 

 thick hard valves. It comprises a consider- 

 able number of species from tropical Africa, 

 Asia, and Australia, either tall woody 

 climbers resembling in habit the well- 

 known Wistaria of our gardens, or trees 

 like Robinia. Their leaves are pinnate 

 with opposite leaflets, almost always fur- 

 nished with stipellae, and the flowers in 

 racemes in the upper axils or in panicles 

 terminating the branches, and often very 

 handsome. The arborescent ones have a 

 hard wood, and one species is said to sup- 

 ply some of theMoulmein R.osewood. None 

 are in cultivation, for they are mostly too 

 large for our hothouses, and too tender for 

 the open air in European climates. 



MILLIGANIA. A genus of ivyworts, 

 having stamens and pistils on distinct 

 plants : the former single in the axils of 

 bracts ; the latter grouped in heads, each 

 flower having the border of the calyx three- 

 cleft, one of the divisions being larger than 

 the others ; styles usually two, rarely four. 

 The only species is a small marsh shrub, a 

 native of Van Diemen's Land. [G. D.] 



MILLINGTONIACE.E. A group of tha- 

 lamifloral dicotyledons described by Wight 

 and Arnott, but included by most botanists 

 in Sapindacece. [J. H. B.] 



MILLINGTONIA hortensis is the only 

 representative of a bignoniaceous genus, 

 peculiar on account of its combining an 

 arboreous habit with a fruit divided into 

 two cells by means of a partition running 

 parallel with the direction of the valves. 

 Millnigtonia is a middle-sized tree, with 

 impari-bipinnate leaves, quite entire leaf- 

 lets, and large panicles of white flowers, 

 emitting a delicious odour, on account of 

 which the plant is cultivated in many parts 

 of India and the Indian Archipelago. The 

 calyx is bell-shaped, and with five equal 

 and short lobes ; the corolla has a very 

 long tube, and is divided into five lobes, 

 the two uppermost of which are more or 

 less grown together ; the stamens are four 

 in number, and the anthers not divergent 

 as in most Bignoniacece, but parallel ; both 

 stamens and style are longer than the 

 corolla, whilst the fruit is a smooth flat 

 capsule, enclosing broadly winged seeds. 

 Several other species formerly classed 

 under Millingtonia, have now more proper- 

 ly been referred to other genera of Bigno- 

 niacece. [B. SJ 



MILL-MOUNTAIN. Linum catharticum- 



MILNEA. A genus of Meliacece, confined 

 to tropical Asia, and consisting of trees 

 and shrubs, the young branches of which 



