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* MORNA nitida. 
The Beautiful Morna. 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA £QUALIS. 
Nat. ord. ASTERACEZ, or COMPOSITE. 
MORNA. Capitulum homogamum. Involucrum coloratum, exsuccum, 
imbricatum, squamis omnibus petiolatis! glaberrimis. Receptaculum planum, 
nudum. Corolle hermaphrodite, infundibulares. ` Anthere basi bicalcarata. 
Achenia glabra, scabriuscula, compressa, longé rostrata. Pappus scaber, uni- 
seriatus, setaceus, equalis, basi pubescens.——Caules apice cymosi, foliati. 
Morna nitida. 
Caules erecti, subsimplices, pubescentes, versus fastigium arachnoideo- 
lanati. Folia erecta, linearia, basi paulo latioru, mucronulata, pubescentia. 
Capitula cymosa, homogama, multiflora, pedunculis ad involucrum usque 
foliatis. Involuerum hemisphericum, polyphyllum, imbricatum, multiseria- 
tum ; squamis intens aureis, acutissimis, serrulatis, longe petiolatis ; exte- 
rioribus ovato-lanceolatis, intimis linearibus apice cuneatis, omnibus basi 
lanatis. Receptaculum planum, nudum.  Flosculi komogami, infundibulares, 
glabri, 5-dentati. Ovarium levissimè pubescens, compressum, longè rostra- 
tum. Pappus setaceus, uniseriatus, scaber, basi pilosus, 
* Morna, one of the heroines of the Northern romanees, was a beautiful 
lady, confined in a golden hall, guarded by a thousand golden lances, and attended 
night and day by knights, whose sole office was to do her bidding in all things, 
except allowing her to escape from her splendid thraldom. Her court could 
only be held where the sunbeams and the summer breeze had the freest access. 
During her residence on earth, she was worshipped as a divinity, and when she 
disappeared, her palace, her knights, and her lances vanished with her. She is 
described as having been a person of the most kind and gentle disposition, but of a 
melancholy and somewhat imperious temperament; her ios was noble and com- 
manding, her voice melodious, and her smile so resistless, that the fiercest animals 
were tamed by merely looking on her. See Viseling de reb, Scand. orat. p. 23. 
After her, various heroines of northern romance have been named Morna or M orni; 
in the present instance the ingenious reader will have no diffieulty in tracing a 
resemblance between this mystical personage and the plant before him. 
