MUM 
Mr. Evelyn, whether it be tender, fatty, deterfive, or 
flippery, or more harfh, gritty, porous, or friable. 
That being always the beft that is between the two 
extremes, and does not contain the two different qua- 
lities of foft and hard mixed, of moift and dry, of 
churlifh and mild, that is neither too unhtuous or too 
lean, but fuch as will diffolve, of a juft confiftence, 
between faiid and clay, and fuch as will not ftick to 
the fpade or fingers upon every flalh of rain. 
A loam, or brick Mould, is not to be difapproved, 
as requiring little help or improvement but the fpade, 
and is efteemed both by the gardener and florift. 
MUCILAGE is a vifcous clammy fubftance about 
feeds, &c. 
MUCILAGINOUS fignifies, endowed with a 
clammy vifcous matter. 
ULBERRY. See Morus. 
ULLEIN. See Verbascum. 
ULTISILI QU O U S plants are fuch as have 
after each Rower, many diftinct, long, Render, and, 
oftentimes, crooked cafes, or filiquee, in which their 
feed is contained, and, which, when they ripen, open 
of themfelves, and let the feeds drop. Of this kind 
is the Bear’s-foot, Columbines, common Houle- 
leek, Navelwort, Orpine, &c. 
MUMMY, a fort of grafting wax, made of one 
pound of common black pitch, and a quarter of a 
pound of common turpentine, put into an earthen 
pot, and fet on the fire in the open air * in doing this 
you ought to hold a cover in your hand, ready to co- 
ver it, in order to quench it, by putting it thereon, 
which is to be done feveral times, fetting it on the 
fire again, that the nitrous and volatile parts may be 
evaporated. The way to know when it is enough, 
is by pouring a little of it on a pewter plate, and if 
it be fo, it will coagulate prefently ; then this melted 
pitch is to be poured into another pot, and a little 
common wax is to be added to it, mixing them well 
together, and then to be kept for ufe. 
Dr. Agricola dire&s the ufing this Mummy as fol- 
lows : 
When you would drefs roots with this wax, you 
muft melt it, and afterwards let it cool a little •, then 
dip in the ends of the roots you would plant (for he 
propofes it for the planting pieces of roots of trees, 
&c.) one after the other, but not too deep, and af- 
terwards to put them in water, and to plant them 
in the earth, the fmall end downwards, fo that the 
larger end may appear a little way out thereof, and 
have the benefit of the air, and then to prefs the earth 
very hard down about them, that they may not re- 
ceive too much wet, becaufe that would rot them. 
Mummy for exotic plants * the fame author directs 
the making it as follows : 
Take half a pound of gum copal, beat it very fine, 
and fearce it *, take three pounds of Venice turpentine, 
and melt it over a flow fire in a ftrong earthen pot * 
when the turpentine is melted and liquidated, put the 
fifted gum into it, keep it continually ftirring with a 
little ftick, augmenting the fire gradually, and it will 
all diffolve infenfibly •, afterwards let the turpentine 
evaporate well, and it will thicken and when it is be- 
come of a fufficient confiftence, you may make it up 
into little rolls, like fealing-wax, and keep it for ufe. 
This Mummy, he fays, is an excellent vulnerary for 
plants, it being fubjeft to no corruption, as other 
gummy things are •, it hinders any rottennefs between 
the ftock and the root, by means of which the callus 
is formed the fooner, and fpreads over all the parts, 
and the ftock becomes entirely connected with the 
root. It alfo gives ftrength and vigour to the root, 
and likewife facilitates it. 
Vegetable Mummy •, the fame author diredts the 
making of this as follows : 
Fill a large kettle, or earthen pot, about a third 
part full of common black pitch, and add to it a 
little fine refin, or fulphurated pitch, and. a little yel- 
low wax ■, melt thefe together till they become li- 
quid, then take them off the fire, and let them ftand 
till they have done fmoking, and, when cool, you 
M U N 
may, with a brufh, plafter the incifions which are 
made for the inoculation, grafting, &c. 
Garden or Foreft Mummy * the fame author directs 
the making it as follows : 
Take three pounds of common turpentine, and four 
pounds of common pitch •, melt the turpentine over 
the fire, and, having beaten the pitch to a powder, 
throw it in * when they are well mixed together, and 
grown pretty thick, take it off, and keep it for ufe. 
This compofition may be either made up into little 
fticks, like thofe of fealing-wax, to be made ufe of 
on little trees, or it may be kept in little pots, and 
melted over a flow fire, when there is occafion to ufe 
it, and, dipping a little brufti in it, you may plafter 
the graft. 
The Noble Mummy, or grafting wax ; to make this 
the fame author direhts : 
Take two pounds of pure pitch* fuch as is called at 
Ratifbon virgin pitch, and add to it half a pound of 
good turpentine *, put them together in an earthen 
pot, and fet them over the fire, that the volatile part 
of the turpentine may evaporate, otherwife it would 
be very prejudicial to trees and roots. Prove it as you 
did the former, to know when it is enough ; then 
add to it half a pound of virgin wax, and half an 
ounce of pounded Myrrh and Aloes * when thefe are 
well mixed, make it up into little rolls or plafters, 
or elfe it may be kept in gallipots. 
The time he diredls when the operation of the roots 
is to be performed, is in the month of September, 
Oftober, and November * though it may fucceed well 
at any time of the year, yet thole months are the 
moft proper feafons for it. The only difference he 
fays, is, what is planted in the fpring, will Ihoot out 
in June or July, and what is planted in autumn 
comes not forth till the month of April. 
The aforefaid author mentions great performances by 
ufing thefe Mummies * thofe who have a mind to be 
fatisfied, may perufe his treatife. 
MUNTINGIA. Plum. Gen. Nov. 41. tab, 6 . Lin. 
Gen. Plant. 575. 
The Characters are. 
The empalement of the flower is cut into jive figments 
to the bottom. ’The flower hath five he art -Jh aped petals, 
narrow at their bafe , which are inferted in the empale- 
went , and fpread open like a Rofe. It has a great num- 
ber of Jlamina , which are terminated by roundtfh fiimmits . 
In the center is fituated a roundifh germen , having no ftyle , 
but is crowned by a ftigma divided into many parts. The 
germen afterward turns to a foft fruit, with one cell, 
crowned by the fiigma , like a navel , and filled with fmall 
feeds. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fe&ion of 
Linnaeus’s thirteenth clafs, which includes thofe 
plants whofe flowers have many ftamina and one ftig- 
ma. According to Tournefort’s fyftem, it muft be 
ranged in the eighth fe&ion of his twenty-firft clafs, 
which contains the trees and Shrubs with a Rofe 
flower, whofe empalement becomes a fruit, having 
hard feeds. 
We know but one Species of this genus, viz. 
Muntingia (Calabura .) Jacq. Hift. tab. 107. Mun- 
tingia folio fericeo molli, fruftu majori. Plum. Nov. 
Gen. 41. Muntingia with a foft filky leaf. \ and a larger 
fruit. 
The title of this genus was given to it by Father Plu- 
nder, in honour of Dr Muntingius, who was profef- 
for of botany at Groningen in Holland, who publish- 
ed a folio book of botany, entitled, Phytographia 
Curiofa, in which there are many figures of plants ex- 
hibited, engraven on copper-plates ; he alfo publifhed 
two books of plants in quarto, one of which is enti- 
tled, Aloidarum, in which the figures of feveral forts 
of Aloes are exhibited * the title of the other is, De 
Herba Britannica Antiquorum. 
This plant is figured and deferibed by Sir Hans 
Sloane, in his Hiftory of Jamaica, by the title of 
Loti arboris folio anguftiore, rubi flore, fru&u polyf- 
permo umbilicato, 2. p. 80, This rifes to the height 
of thirty feet or more in its native foil, fending out 
9 E . many 
