pusillus, Drumra., of W. Australia ; as also of the two 

 Leguminous plants, Arachis hypogsea, L., and Voandzeia 

 subterranea, Thou. 



The rocks and sandy shores of Sardinia and Corsica are 

 the only known habitats for Morisia. At the Royal Gardens, 

 Kew, it flowers annually in the Rockery in March, and 

 earlier in the Alpine House. 



Descr.— A procumbent, sparsely hispid, depressed, 

 perennial-rooted herb, stemless, or with one or two short 

 stems springing from the crown, but not otherwise inter- 

 fering with the habit of the plant. Leaves very many, 

 spreading horizontally from the root, two to three inches 

 long by about one half inch broad, linear, pinnatifid or 

 pinnatisect, bright green ; segments ovate or oblong, 

 obtuse or apiculate, quite entire, sinus rounded. Flowers 

 very numerous, solitary, or slender, scapes shorter than 

 the leaves, about three-fourths of an inch broad, golden- 

 yellow. Sepals subequal, linear-oblong, obtuse, scarcely 

 saccate at the base. Petals spathulate. Filaments slender, 

 with two long glands at the base of the shorter pair, and 

 sometimes two smaller between the longer pairs. Ovary 

 terete, constricted above the middle, of two joints, each 

 two-celled, lower joints with the cells many-ovuled, upper 

 with the cells empty, or 1-ovuled; style short, stigma 

 capitate. Fruit half an inch long or more, ripening 

 underground. Seeds broadly oblong, cotyledons concave, 

 radicle incumbent. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Portion of leaf; 2, flower with the petals removed; 3, stamens, 

 glands, and pistil ; 4, vertical, and 5, transverse section of ovary ; 6 and 7, 

 fruit ; 8, seed, from lower joint of fruit; 9, transverse section of embryo of do. ; 

 10, portion of upper joint with 2 seeds ; 11, transverse section of embryo from 

 do. :— All enlarged, except 6, which is of nat. size. 



