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Man’s-motherwort. ‘The herb Palma Christi' Ger. Appx. Hal. 
Wr. Eicinus communis, L. 
Mantle, Lady’s. See Lady’s Mantle. 
Maple. (1) The common name for Acer campestre, L. — Lyte. N. 
Yks. ; E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. In the Midlands pronounced Mauple 
(E. D. S. Gloss. B. o). Prior, p. 144 (who spells it Mapel, according 
to its derivation). 
(2) Acer Pseudo-platanus, L. — S, Cumb. 
Maple Service. Pyriis torminalis, L. — Pratt. 
Map-lichen. A common hook-name for Lecidea geograpldea, Hook. 
— Prior, p. 144. 
Maram. See Marram. 
Marble-flower. ‘ M fallor, Papaveris species, flore eleganti, ^ colore 
variegato instar Marmoris varii, sic dicta.’ Skinner. We have not 
met with the name elsewhere. Probably a garden form of Papaver 
somniferum, L. 
March, or Merch (Archseologia, xxx. 410). Apium graveolens, L. 
— Lyte. Hal. Wr. ‘ Da. mdrke, Sw. moerki, the old name of parsley.’ 
Prior, p. 144, which see. 
March, Wood. Sanicula europcea, L. — Ger. Appx. 
March Beetle. See Beetle, March. 
March Daisy.’ ‘Probably the early flowers of Beilis perennis! 
Nhamp. Nth. Gloss. 
March Pestill. Typha latifoUa, L. — Lyte. 
March Violet. Viola odorata, L. — Lyte. From the time of their 
flowering. ‘ March Violets . . . must be set of whole plants in a 
well manured ground, and digd the depth of a foote before the 
Kalends of March.’ Surflet’s Countrie Farme, 302. Prior, p. 243. 
Marcnry. See Mercury. 
Mardling. Lemna minor, L. — Suff. 
Mare-blob. Caltha palustris, L. — Derh. (Mere-blobs), Eeliquary, 
vi. 163 ; Nhamp. Nth. Gloss., Wr. ; Warw. Prior, p. 145. See Blob. 
Marefart. Senecio Jacohoea, L. — Hal. Wr. Ches. 
Mare’s-fat. Inula dysenterica, L. — Hal. Wr. Norf. Holl. 
Mare’s Tail. The common hook-name for Hippuris mdgaris, L. — 
With. ed. ii. ‘A plant called in old herbals “ Female Horse-tail,” Lat. 
cauda equina foemina, being looked upon as the female of the larger 
and stronger Equisetum jiuviatile. Modern botanists, following Hud- 
son, have shifted the hyphen, and chosen to understand the name as 
“Female-horsetail” or Mards Tail.' Prior, p. 145. The name is, 
however, often applied to the Equiseta, as by Sir Joseph Hooker in 
