DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



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Structural Fiber. — Savorgnan states that the plant "is much sought for the 

 beauty of its fiber, from which is manufactured cloth as well as very fine mattings. 

 A delicate texture is made from the filaments drawn from the young, undeveloped 

 leaves. 



Mexican fiber. Agave heteracantha. 



Mexican grass. Name sometimes given to sisal hemp. 



Mexican whisk. Epicampcs ma or our a. 



Miyamoe (Burin.). See Andropogon sqitarrosus. 



Fig. 83.— The Sago palm, Metroxylon sagu. 



Milk ■weed. The Swamp, Asclepias incarnata. 

 syriaca, the common . 



Minbaw (Burin.). Caryota urens. 



Mirganjijute (see Corchorus). 



Miriti palm. Same as Muriti. See Mauritia. 



Mitsumata (Jap.). See Edgeivorthia. 



Mocou-mocou. Galadium giganteum. 



Mod, Mad, and Mada. (Ind.). Cocos nucifera. 



Mohti (Hopi). Yucca glauca. 



See also Asclepias 



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