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MORlNA longifolia. 

 Long -leaved Marina. 



DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 

 Nat, ord. DiPSACE^, § MorineyE. 



MORINA. Tourn. Involucellum monophyllum, tubuloso-campanula- 

 tum, fovcolis destitutum, margine spinoso-dentatum. Calycis tubus ovatus, 

 limbus foliaceus bifidus, lobis oblongis integrisve bifidis. Corolla longe tu- 

 bulosa, ringens. Stamina A, nunc libera didynama, nuncbinatim diadelpha. 

 Stigma peltato-capitatum. Fruetiis calycis lobis coronatus, involucello duc- 

 tus. Yitxhae, perennes, Ca.Y(hx\facie, simplices, erectce. Folia ohlongo-sinuata^ 



dentato-spinosa, rariiis integerrima. Flores in foliorum superionim axillis 

 aggregato-verticillati. Folia floralia hreviora, fere palmato-dentata. DC. 

 Prodr. 4. 644. 



M. longifolia ; foliis sinuatis spinoso-dentatis floralibus corollis rachique sub- 



villosis, calycis lobis cuneato-oblongis emargiqatis, floribus diandris. 

 M. longifolia. Wall. Herb. hid. no. 426. BeCand. 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 

 Mees' Cyclopcedia. 



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 

 Grseca. 



