that name for another genus, and to have adopted that of 

 Vieusseuxia for this, fo that the remark is now inappro- 

 priate to Moraea ; a genus fo named by Miller from his 

 friend Robert More, Efq. whom he ftates to be learned in 

 various branches of natural hiftory, and particularly in that of 

 botany*; the fpecies on which he founded it was Moria vegeta. 

 Thofe that have regulated us in the prefent effemial character 

 are Iris ciliata t minula l tripctala, fpathacea, ramofaf angnjla> 

 fcfacea, pavoma, crijpa, tricitfpis, (Bot. Mag. No. 168.) viHofa, 

 (Bot. Mag. No. 571.) unguiculata y papilionacea, edulis, trifiis, 

 (Bot. Mag. No. 577.) polyftachia? vifcaria, (Bot. Mag. No. 

 587.) biiuminofa. Morjea juncea, vcgeta, (iriopetalee Willde- 

 novii varietates) collina et elegant (Hort. Schcenb.) 



Our prefent plant, fo nearly allied to tricufpis and villofa y 

 differs from both, in not being bearded and in having its 

 claws much narrower and equal to the laminae of the largert 

 fegments, and from the latter, moreover, in not having a pu- 

 befcent leaf and Item. 



Introduced from the Cape by Mr. Alderman Hibbert, at 

 whofe garden our drawing was taken, and where alone, we 

 believe, it is at prefent to be found. Flowers in May. Pro- 

 pagates in the manner of Mor#,a villofa. 



This genus is certainly one of the molt elegant divifions of 

 the whole natural order, but from the extreme delicacy of the 

 corollas of its fpecies ill calculated for the Herbarium, in which 

 fcarcely any thing but the leaf and ftera can be recognized, 

 hence good figures from living fpecimens become the more 

 defirable. G. 



•Prcfeflbr Thunberg, in his Diflertatton on Mor^a, mentions the name 

 as given by Linnjeus in honour of Johannes Morbus, M. D. at Fahlun ; 

 but this muft be a miftake, Linn^us having avowedly adopted the genua QA 

 the fole authority of Miller's Dictionary. 



