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.MORINÁ longifolia. 
Long-leaved Morina. 
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DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Dipsace”, $ MORINEZ. 
MORINA. Tourn. Involucellum monophyllum, tubuloso-campanula- 
tum, foveolis destitutum, margine spinoso-dentatum. Calycis tubus ovatus, 
limbus foliaceus bifidus, lobis oblongis integrisve bifidis. “Corolla longè tu- 
bulosa, ringens. Stamina 4, nunc libera didynama, nunc binatim diadelpha. 
Stigma peltato-capitatum. Fructus calycis lobis coronatus, involucello cinc- 
tus. Herbae perennes, Cardui facie, simplices, erecta. Folia oblongo-sinuata, 
dentato-spinosa, rarius integerrima. Flores im foliorum superiorum axillis 
Bane esi = Folia floralia breviora, ferê palmato-dentata. DC. 
rodr. 4. 644. 
M. longifolia ; foliis sinuatis spinoso-dentatis floralibus corollis rachique sub- 
villosis, calycis lobis cuneato-oblongis emarginatis, floribus diandris. 
M. longifolia. Wall. Herb. Ind. no. 426. DeCand. Prodr. 4. 644. 
The Morinas are handsome oriental herbaceous plants, 
the original species of which, M. persica, was found near 
Erzeroum, in the valley of the four mills, by Tournefort, du- 
ring his residence in that town. In one of these mills, says 
he, we proceeded to name one of the finest genera of plants 
in the Levant, to which we gave the name of a person highly 
estimable for his science and virtue, M. Morin, of the Royal 
Academy of Science, Doctor of Medicine of the Faculty of 
Paris, who has since had the singular good fortune to raise 
this plant from seed in his garden, it having succeeded no 
where else. The flower seems formed to bear the name of 
M. Morin, who is passionately devoted to Botany.— Smith in 
Rees? Cyclopedia. 
Of the produce of that plant, or of others found in Greece 
by Mr. Hawkins, or brought from Persia by Olivier, our 
gardens have long lost all trace, and the periodical Botanical 
books of this country contain no figure of it. There is how- 
ever a noble representation of M. Persica in the costly Flora 
Greca. 
