For Herr Maire (1816).**
(K3)

malakos, = soft, gentle, mild.
(mallow)
(emollient, softening properties of the seeds)
(LS, Le)

manus, = a hand;
-ulus, = diminutive.
manuleus, = the long sleeve of a tunic.
(appearance of five upright corolla lobes)
(ld, BL, Le)

mar, = marsh.

Old name used by Pliny the Elder (A.D. 23-79) for a kind of rush.

(Le)

For Francis Masson (1741-1805).**
(Ch)

For Maxwell Tylden Masters (1833-1907);**
-ellus, = diminutive.
(Ch)

For Giovanni Francesco Morosini (1658-1739).**
(Ch)

From the Spanish/Chilean common name for maiten or mayton.
(May-weed)
(K3, Ox)

medikos, = Median; a kind of clover, lucerne.
medike, = name given to a Median grass by Dioscorides.**
(LS, Le)

melas, = black, dark, gloomy, dusky, murky;
melasma, = black spot, black dye; to blacken.
(plants turn black upon drying)
(LS, Le)

melas, = black, dark, gloomy, dusky, murky;
sphaira, = a ball, a sphere, globe;
(globose, spherical)
-ulus, = diminutive.
(LS, BL)

meli, = honey;
anthos, = a flower, the bloom of a flower.
(flowers contain abundant nectar)
(LS, Le)

meli, = honey;
lotos, = the name of several plants; the Greek lotus, a kind of clover or trefoil.
(flowers resembling Lotus (q.v.) and are honey-smelling)
(LS, Le)

meline, = millet.
(LS)

menta, mentha, = mint.
(from the nymph Minthe, (Menthe).**
(ld, Le)

For Marie Philippe Mercier (1781-1831).**
(Ch)

For Hermann Merxmüller (1920-1988).**
(Ch)

mesembria, = midday, noon, when the sun is at the meridian;
anthos, = a flower, the bloom of a flower.
(flowers need midday sunshine to open)

(LS, Le)

meta, = backwards, reversely;
lasios, = shaggy with hair or wool, hairy.
(the leaves)
(LS, Le)

metra, = matrix, the womb;
metra, = heartwood;
sideros, = iron.
(hard, tough wood)
(LS, Le, BL)

mikros, = little, small; petty, mean, trivial insignificant;
anthos, = a flower, the bloom of a flower.
(small-flowered)
(LS, BL)

mikros, = little, small; petty, mean, trivial insignificant;
codon, = a bell.
(flower shape)
(LS, Le)

mikros, = little, small; petty, mean, trivial insignificant;
odon, ontos, odons, = a tooth;
-odon, = tooth, toothed.
(small teeth)
(the calyx is 5-toothed)
(LS, BL, LB)

mikros, = little, small; petty, mean, trivial insignificant;
loma, = the hem or border of a robe.
(hem, fringe, border)
(corolla tube has five tufts of deflexed hairs)
(LS, BL, Le)

mimētikos, = imitative.
(similarity of general appearance to members of some other genera)

(LS, Le)

modius = the roman corn measure, a measure, peck; the socket, step, shoe in which the mast of a ship stands;
-olus, = diminutive.
modiolus, = a small measure; hence a kind of drinking vessel; a bucket on a water-wheel; the nave of a wheel.
(modiolus, = The cenral bony column in the cochlea of he ear: = allusion unclear)
(ld, BL, Le)

For Daniel Matthias Heinrich Mohr (1780-1808).**
(Ch)

monos, = alone, only;
(alone, solitary)
oculus, = an eye.
monculus, = one-eyed.
(LS, BL, ld)

monos, = alone, only;
(alone, solitary)
ops (ώψ), = the eye, face, countenance;
-opsis, = appearance.
(rather vague, possibly referring to the almost regular corolla in some species)
(LS, BL, Le)

For Lars Jonasson Montin (1723-1785).**
(Ch)

Named after Dr Johan Moraeus,** and not Robert More, squire of Shrewsbury in the 18th century.
(Ch)

moron, = a black mulberry;
-ellus, = diminutive.
morello, = a kind of cherry with a bitter taste.
(LS, BL, Ox)

For Johannes von Muralt (1645-1733).**
(Ch)

myo, = shut, closed;
poros, = a means of passing, a ford; a way through or over, passage.
porus, = a passage, channel in the body.
(a pore)
(ford, strait, passage, pore, opening)
(transparent glands on the leaves)
(LS, ld, Ox, BL, Le)

mys, myos, = mouse, of a mouse;
ous, otis, = an ear.
(shape of leaves)
(LS, Le)

murios, = numberless, vast, endless;
vernus, = of or belonging to spring, spring-.
(vernal, pertaining to spring)
(LS, ld, BL)

myrsine, = the myrtle.
(Greek name for the common myrtle, Myrsine communis, which it resembles)
(LS, Le)

mystron, = a spoon;
petalos, = spread out, unfolded, broad, flat.
petalon, = a leaf.
(in modern botany, petal)
(perianth segments are spoon-shaped)
(LS, BL, Le)