SELECT PLANTS. 
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Madura aurantiaca, Nuttall. 
It resists severe frosts. The saplings furnish stakes for vines, 
which are very lasting. The wood serves well for bows, buggy- 
shafts, carriage -poles and similar articles. The root yields an 
excellent dye. Jf. tinctoria (D. Don), which furnishes the Fustic- 
wood of Central and South America, may prove hardy here. 
Medicago lupulina, Linne. 
The Black Medick. Europe, Asia and North America. An 
annual or biennial pasture herb, easily grown and not without 
nutritive importance. A variety of M. sativa (M. media, Pers.J 
deserves preference for sand tracts. 
Melilotus coerulea, Lamarck. 
South Europe and North Africa. An annual very odorous fodder- 
herb. It forms an ingredient of the green Swiss cheese, which 
owes its flavor and color chiefly to this plant. 
Morus alba, Linne. 
The Muscardine-disease is produced by Botrytis Bassiana, while 
the still more terrible Pebrine-disease is caused by a minute vibrio- 
like organism. Countries like ours, happily free of these pests, 
can thus rear healthy silk-ova at a high premium for exportation. 
Musa simiarum, Eumph. 
(M. corniculata, Lour., M. acuminata, Coll.) From Malacca to 
the Sunda-Islands. About half-a-hundred marked varieties of 
this species, called mainly Peesangs in India, are under cultivation 
there, especially on the Archipelagic, while M. sapientum occurs 
wild more frequently on the mainland. Though the latter is 
principally cultivated on the Indian continent, yet it never equals 
in delicacy the cultivated forms of M. simiarum, the fruit of which 
sometimes attains a length of 2 feet (Kurz). 
Myrtus acmenoides, F. v. Mueller. 
Queensland. The fragrant leaves of this and of M. fragrantissima 
used for flavoring tea, according to Mr. P. O'Shanesy. 
Panicum brizanthum, Hochstetter. 
From Abyssinia to Nepal. A large-grained perennial Millet grass. 
Panicum latissimum, Mikan. 
Brazil. A highly ornamental grass. Leaves extremely broad but 
hard ; panicle very rich. 
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