Litmus, 452

  Lignum aloes, 439

  Litre, a French measure, equal to 13/4 English pint nearly, 202

  Lime, its influence on cane juice, 161

  Lindley (Prof.) on the wheat of South Australia, 221

  Lindley’s classification of the plantain tribe, 322

  Liptospermum, oil of, 565

  Lilium Pomponium, 356

  Lindley (Dr.) on the lichens, 486

  Linseed, 535
    oil, 509, 537
    imported, 563
    cake imported, 564

  Little (Mr.) on opium, 587

  Libra, a Spanish kind of tobacco, 613

  Liquorice, 642
    paste, 643

  Logwood, 445, 447, 484

  Lotus seeds, used as food, 356

  Locust tree, 313
    pods, 503

  Louisiana, cost of producing sugar in, 189
    production of sugar in, 146

  Loxa bark, 636

  Luffas, properties of, 626

  Luggie, a measuring rod, 471

  Lucca oil, 531

  Macfarlane (Mr. A.) on the tea plant,117

  Madder, culture of, 478
    Indian, 484
    statistics of imports, 484

  Madia sativa oil, 520
    sativa, 444

  Mahowa oil, 537

  Maclura tinctoria, 485

  Mauritius weed, 486

  Mangrove bark, for tanning, 493

  Mac Micking (Mr.) on making cigars, 620

  Margose oil, 537

  Macaw tree, 519

  Maxwell (Dr.) on Neem oil, 537

  Marc of olives, 531

  Mango, kernel of, for bread, 378

  Marmala water, 574

  Malabar cardamoms, 419

  Manila, exports of indigo from, 476
    exports of sugar from, 153
    cigar making, 620
    hemp, whence obtained, 321

  Mattrasses, stuffed with blades of Indian corn, 281

  Macculloch’s (Mr.) estimate of indigo, 478

  Maize, number of varieties cultivated, 278
    analysis of, 264
    imported, 218
    meal, imported, 218
    on the culture of, 260
    sugar, 215
    information respecting, 9
    Dr. Phillip’s analysis of, 307
    starch of, 334, 335, 337, 343
    system of culture in America, 273
    culture in the East Indies, 282
    immense produce per acre, 281
    varieties grown in, Peru, 281
    statistics of production in America, 269
    statistics of exports from the United States, 272

  Malphigia bark, for tanning, 495

  Maslin, quantity grown in France, 250

  Mace, imports of, 414
    false color of, 409
    proportion of, to nutmegs, 408

  Malt, quantity made, 255

  Mahoe, furnishes a dye stuff, 444

  Mauritius, exports of pepper, 426
    nutmeg introduced in, 412
    pepper grown in, 422
    cost of sugar cultivation in, 187, 189
    tea culture in, 94
    progress of sugar culture in, 150
    clove culture of, 398, 401
    black beans, 304