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AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF 



Monardella macrantha. — A perennial from California, bearing orange- 

 scarlet blossoms, highly fragrant. 

 Moneses. ^ee Pyrola. 



Monimia. — A genus of shrubby trees from the Mauritius, bearing 



panicles of yellow, scented flowers. 

 Monodora Myristica. — A West Indian tree, bearing large white and 



yellow sweetly-scented flowers. The seeds are also scented. 

 Monsonia spinosa. — A shrubby plant from South Africa ; the growth 



emits an agreeable odour when burnt. 

 Morenia fragrans.— A Peruvian Palm, with scented attractions. 

 Mormodes. Bee Orchids. 



Morcea odora. — A South African bulbous plant belonging to the Iris 

 family, bearing lilac, sweetly-scented bloom. 



Morrenia odorata. — A dwarf creeping plant from Argentina, with 

 greenish sweet-smelling flowers. 



Moscharia. — A Chilian annual, possessing a strong smell of Musk. 



Moschosma. — A genus of herbs, distributed throughout the Eastern 

 Hemisphere ; many of them possess a strong odour of Musk. 



Munronia. — A tribe of East Indian shrubs, bearing white flowers that 

 emit a delicious scent. 



Murraya exotica. — A Chinese and Australian shrub belonging to the 

 Citrus family, bearing pure white deliciously honey-scented blos- 

 soms much resembling those of the Orange, though smaller. M, 

 Sumatrana, another dainty kind, bears white, scented flowers. 



Muscari (Mush Hyacinth, Feathered Hyacinth, Grape Hyacinth). — A 

 tribe of bulbous plants from the South of Europe, and furnishing 

 some of the most ornamental and interesting hardy bulbs for the 

 decoration of the garden. They flower in rich masses, and the 

 flowers are mostly blue, purple, red, or white, and of great diversity 

 of size and form. The true feathered Hyacinth (Muscari comosum 

 monstrosum) has its petals so lacerated and cut into the finest 

 downy-like fragments as to merit the name of feathered, the petals 

 being cut into the finest feather-like down. The flowers are pink. 

 There is also a white variety, which is rare, invaluable for deco- 

 rative purposes. M, comosum is a lovely ultramarine blue. The 

 following Grape or Musk Hyacinths are also well worth growing 

 in hardy herbaceous borders, mixed beds, or shrubberies : — M. 

 hotryoides, another beautiful blue species, flowering in April. Mr. 

 Ruskin says of this lovely Grape Hyacinth in his Queen of the Air, 

 as he saw it in the South of France, ^ that it was as if a cluster 

 of grapes and a hive of honey had been distilled and pressed to- 

 gether into one small boss of celled and beaded blue. ' M. moschatum, 

 maroon yellow, strongly Musk-scented. M, parodoxum, deep blue ; 



