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A DICTIONARY OF 
Mice, Dutch. Lathyrus tuberosus, L., is ‘ occasionally cultivated ’ 
under this name. Gard. Chron., 1860, p. 774. Ger. gives Muy sen- 
met steerten as a ‘ high Dutch ’ name, and adds, ‘ that is to say, tailed 
Mise, of the similiUide or likenes of domesticall Mise, which the 
• blacke, rounde, and long nuts, with a peece of the slender string 
hanging out behind, do represent.’ Ger. 1058. 
Michaelmas Crocus. ColcMcum aidumnale, L. — Wilts. (Devizes). 
Michaelmas Daisy. See Daisy, Michaelmas. 
Michelwort. ‘ Ellehorus alhus. See a list of plants in MS. Sloane 
5, f. 5.’ Hal. Wr. Veratrum album, L. 
Micken. Meum athamanticum, Jacq. — Forfarsh. (Highlands), Dl. 
• Porf. ; Aherdeensh., Stirlingsh. (Highland Micken), Dickie’s Bot. 
Guide. In Jamieson printed Michen. See Moiken. 
Midden Myles, or Mylies. Chenopodium album, L. — ^ Orach, 
North Scotland, thus denominated as growing on dunghills.’ Jamie- 
son. 
Middle Comfrey (Lyte), or Consound. Ajuga reptans, L. — See 
Consound. 
Midge-grass. Holcus lanatus, L. — E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. 
Midsummer Daisy. See Daisy, Midsummer. 
Midsummer Men. Sedum Telephium, L. — ‘ The people of the 
countrey delight much to set it in pots and shelles on Midsomer Eve, 
or upon timber slattes and trenchers dawbed with clay, and so to set 
it or hang it up in their houses, wherein it remayneth greene a long 
season, and groweth, if it be sometimes over-sprinckled with water.’ 
Lyte. It seems to havo been thus used as a love divination. Prior, 
p. 153. In Bentham’s Handbook of the British Elora the name is 
erroneously assigned to S. Rhodiola, L. 
Midsummer Silver. ‘ In this place [Lingfield, Surrey] the Inhabit- 
ants are very fond of Ghirlands, or Garlands, made of Midsummer 
Silver, a little Herb, which continues all the Year of a bright Ash 
Colour, and have crowded the Church and their own Houses with 
them.’ Aubrey, Nat. Hist, and Antiq. of Surrey, iii. 62 (1718). ‘ No 
such custom now prevails (1808), nor do old people remember it. The 
Midsummer Silver is common here.’ Manning and Bray’s Hist, of 
‘ Surrey, ii. 340 (1809). The plant referred to is no doubt Potentilla 
anserina, L., which was called Argentina (which see) by old writers. 
Mildew. Various species of fungi which affect the leaves or stems 
- of plants. The disease of wheat known as mildeiu is due to Puccinia 
Graminis, Pers. Prior, p. 153. 
Milds, or Miles. Chenopodium album, L. — E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. ; 
Lothians, Eoxhurghsh. Jamieson. In Bot. E. Bord. spelt Myles : and 
‘ Boil myles in water, and chop them with butter, and you will have 
a good dish,’ is given as ‘an old saying’ (p. 171). The name is 
• extended in Ayrsh. to various species of Atriplex. Meals (which 
see) and Meedles are other forms of the word: see also Midden 
Myles. 
