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Mallowe). Coles (A. in E., 328) has also Moorish. Mallow. Mers- 
malewe is an old form : MS. Sloane 5, f. 2 (Hal.). Prior, p. 143. 
(3) Caltha ^ahistris, L. — A'. YJcs. 
Mallow, Musk. A common book-name for Mdlva moscliata^ L., in 
allusion to the odour of its foliage. — With. ed. ii. Prior, p. 143. 
Mallow, Tree. Lavatera arborea, L. — With. ed. ii. Prior, p. 143. 
Mallow, White. Altlicea officinalis, L. — Ger. 
Mallow-rocks. See Mallow (1). 
Maine. See Mallow (1). 
Mamma’s Milk. Euphorbia Helioscopia, L. — S. Bucks. 
Mandrake. (1) Mandragora officinalis, L., the root of which has 
from very early times been popularly endowed with supernatural 
properties. A sketch of its popular history by one of us will be 
found in Gard. Chron. for Sept. 5, 1874 (p. 289). Gerard says : ‘ In 
English we call it Mandrake, Mandrage, and Mandragon.’ Hal. 
(2) Bryonia dioica, L. — ‘ The root sometimes groweth to the big- 
nesse of a childe of a yeere old, so that it hath been by some cut into 
the forme of a man, and called a mandrake, being set againe into the 
earth.’ Coles, A. in E., 300. EuU directions for making ‘the coun- 
terfeit mandi’ake which hath been sold by deceivers for much money,’ 
from the ‘ great double root of Briony,’ will be found in Lupton’s 
Notable Things, Book iii. No. 39 (1675). Gerard (p. 281) says that 
‘ the idle drones that have little or nothing to do but eate and drinke, 
have bestowed some of their time in carving the roots of Brionie, 
forming them to the shape of men and women ; which falsifying 
practise hath confirmed the errour amongst the sim2Dle and unlearned 
people, who have taken them upon their report to be the true Man- 
drakes.’ IF. Ches. ; Here/.; Leic. (Belgrave) ; N.-W. Line. E. D. S. 
Gloss. C. 6 ; Sal. ; Wore. Phjd. v. 159, N. s. ; Yks. ; Warw. ; Wight, 
El. Vect. Prior, p. 143. 
(3) Tamils communis, L. — Yks, 
(4) Arum maculatum, L. — Yks. 
Manelet. Chrysanthemum segetum, L. — Scotl. Jamieson. 
Manicon. ‘ A kind of Nightshade. 
“ Bevdteh Hermetic men to run 
Stark staring mad with manicon. 
Hudibras, III. i. 324.’ Hal. Wr. 
Probably Atropa Belladonna, L. 
Manna Grass. Prior (p. 144) gives this as a name for Glyceria 
fluitans, Br. — ‘ The seeds . . . are collected in several parts of Ger- 
many and Poland, under the name of Manna-seeds.’’ Mart. Mill. It 
is not, however, the Manna Grass of Gerard, which is a species of 
Digitaria. 
Man Orchis. In Holdich’s Essay on Weeding applied to Orchis 
mascula, L., 0. Morio, L., 0. latifolia, L., and 0. maculata, L. — It is 
usually assigned in books to Aceras anthropophora, Br., which is also 
called Green Man or Green Man Orchis. 
