MIL 
treble the value of the deficiency. Wlicre 
toll is allowed to be taken it shall be de- 
ducted before the corn is put into the mill. 
From and after June 1, 179C, no miller 
shall, under the penalty of bl. take any part 
of the corn, or of the produce, for toll ; but 
in lieu thereof he shall be entitled to de- 
mand payment in money. But where the 
party shall not have money to pay for grind- 
ing, the miller, with his consent, may take 
such part of the corn as will be equal to the 
money price, expressed in their table of 
prices for grinding. Also no tiling in this 
clause shall extend to the ancient mills 
called soke-mills, or such others where the 
possessors are bound to grind for particular 
persons, or within particular districts, and to 
take a fixed toll. 
From and after June 1, 1796, every mil- 
ler shall put up in his mill a table of the 
prices, or of the amount of toll at his mill, 
on pain of forfeiting not exceeding 20s. 
MILLEPES, the common wood louse, a 
species of the oniscus with a blunt forked 
tail. See Oniscus. 
MILLEPORA, in natural history, a 
genus of insects of the Vermes Zoophyta 
class and order. Animal an hydra or 
polype ; coral, mostly branched and cover- 
ed with many cylindrical turbinated pores ; 
hence its naine, a thousand pores. There 
are more than thirty species, of wdiich we 
shall notice M. miniacea, very minute, 
branching into small lobes, and covered 
with very small pores. This is an inhabi- 
tant of the Mediterranean and Indian Seas ; 
is a beautiful little coral, and the smallest 
of the genus, being seldom more titan a 
quarter of an inch high ; the whole stirface 
when magnified appears full of white blind 
pores, and on the tops of the lobes are 
several scattered holes surrounded with a 
margin ; the base is broad, by which it 
adheres to shells, corals, and rocks. M. 
cervicornis; a little compressed, dechoto- 
mous, with cells on both sides, and tubular, 
somewhat prominent florets. It is found 
in tlje Mediterranean and on the Cornish 
coast five or six inches high ; reddish or 
yellowish brown, branched like the horns 
of a stag, and appearing as if covered with 
varnish. M. polymorpha; crustaceous, 
solid, irregularly shaped, but generally 
branched and tubercnlafe, and without 
visible pores; inhabits most European seas, 
and is the common coral of the shops ; in 
many places it grows in such abundance 
that it is burnt for manure; its colour is ■ 
either red, yellowish, green, and, some times 
MIM 
white. It is frequently shaped like a wal- 
nut, often in large compressed masses, 
sometimes like a small bunch of grapes, 
but most frequently in short irregular rami- 
fications of a chalky tuberculate appear- 
ance and stony substance. 
MILLERIA, in botany, so named in 
honour of Philip Miller, author of the 
Gardeners’ Dictionary and Calendar; a 
genus of the Syngenesia Polygamia Ne- 
cessaria class and order. Natural order 
of Compositoe Oppositifolim. Corynibi- 
ferae, Jussieu. Essential character : calyx, 
three valved ; ray of the corolla halved ; 
down none; receptacle naked. There are 
three species ; of which M. biflora, two 
flowered milleria, is an annual plant, rising 
with an herbaceous stalk upwards of two 
feet high, branching out at a small dis- 
tance from the root into three or four 
slender stalks, which are almost naked to 
the top, where they have two lanceolate 
leaves placed opposite, nearly two inches 
long; they have three longitudinal veins, 
and are slightly indented on their edges ; 
the flowers come out at the foot stalks of 
the leaves, in small clusters ; the common 
calyx is composed of three orbicular leaves, 
compressed together ; in each of these are 
two imperfect hermaphrodite florets, which 
are barren ; and one female ligulate fruitful 
floret, to which succeeds a roundish angu- 
lar seed, inclosed in the calyx. This plant was 
discovered at Campeachy, by Dr. Houston. 
MILLET. See Milium. 
MILLING, in the manufacture of cloth, 
the same with fulling. See Fulling. 
MILLION, in arithmetic, the number 
of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand 
times a tliousand. 
MILLREE, a Portuguese gold coin, 
equal to bs. 7id. of our money. 
MIMOSA, in botany, a genus of the 
Polygamia Monoecia class and order. Na- 
tural order of Lomentace® ; Leguminos®, 
Jussieu. Essential character : hermaphro- 
dite, calyx, five-toothed ; corolla five-cleft ; 
stamina five or more ; pistilluni one; legume : 
male, calyx, five-toothed; corolla five- 
cleft; stamina five, ten, or more. There 
are eighty-five species; among w'hich the 
M. sensitiva, sensitive plant, rises with a 
slender woody stalk seven or eight feet in 
height, armed with short recurved thorns ; 
the leaves grow upon long foot stalks, 
which are prickly, each sustaining two pair 
of wings; from the place where these are 
inserted, come out small branches, having 
three or four globular heads of pale pur- 
