CHAP. C. URTICA‘CEX. Mo'‘Rrus. 1343 
Fi‘cus Tourn. Flowers inserted upon the interior surface of a hollow glo- 
bular or pear-shaped fleshy receptacle, in whose tip is an orifice closed with 
small scales; minute, many within a receptacle ; those in the upper part 
male, the rest female; or the flowers of each sex occupy distinct receptacles 
upon distinct plants. — Male flower. Calyx 3-parted. Stamens 3.— Fe- 
male flower. Calyx 5-cleft, having a tube that invests a threadshaped 
stalk that bears the pistil. Stalk adnate to the ovary on one side, and 
extending to the base of the style: the style is inserted rather laterally. 
Ovary with 1 cell and 1 ovule. Stigmas 2. Fruit a utricle. Seed pen- 
dulous. Embryo falcate, in the centre of fleshy albumen. — Species nume- 
rous. Trees or shrubs, occurrent in the warmer regions of both hemi- 
spheres. . Carica inhabits the south of Europe. Sap white. Leaves 
alternate, stipulate. Stipules large, convolute, deciduous. (7. Nees ab 
Esenbeck, Gen. Pl. Fl. Germ. Most of the characters are taken from F. 
Carica L.) 
Bo‘ry4 Willd. Flowers unisexual: those of the two sexes upon distinct 
plants. — Male flower. Calyx minute, in 4 deep segments. Stamens 2—3. 
— Female flower. Calyx inferior, in 4 deep segments, that are deciduous ; 
two opposite ones very minute, and in some instances not present. Ovary 
roundish-ovate: it has 2 cells. Style short. Stigma capitate, depressed, 
obscurely cloven. Fruit pulpy, oval-oblong, with | cell. Seed mostly soli- 
tary ; its skin membranous, its embryo straight, its albumen horny.—Species 
5; 4 native of North America, 1 of the West Indies: all shrubs, with their 
leaves opposite, or nearly so, mostly smooth and entire; and their flowers 
minute, axillary, fascicled and bracteated. (Smith, under Bigelovia in Rees’s 
Cycl.; Nuttall in Gen. ; and observation.) 
Genus I. 
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MO‘RUS Tourn. Tue Murperry Tree. Lin. Syst. Monce‘cia Tetrandria. 
Identification. Tourn., quoted by T. Nees ab Esenbeck, in his Gen, Pl. Fl. Germ.; Schreb. Lin. 
Gen. Pl., No. 1424.; Willd. Sp. Pl, 4 p. 368.; I. Nees ab Esenbeck Gen. Pl. Fl. Germ., fase. 3. 
No. 5. 
Synonymes. MAarier, Fr.; Maulbeere, Ger. 
Derivation. Several derivations have been given for the word Mdrus: some suppose it to be taken 
from the Greek word morea, or moron, signifying a mulberry or blackberry ; others derive it from 
mauros, dark ; and Sir J. E. Smith suggests that it may have been taken by antiphrasis from mdros, 
foolish, the mulberry tree, from its slowness in putting out its leaves, being anciently considered 
the emblem of wisdom. ‘The Morea, in the Levant, is said to be so called from the resemblance 
of the shape of that peninsula to the leaf of a mulberry. 
Description, §c. Deciduous trees, natives of Europe, Asia, and America, 
remarkable for their large leaves, which are mostly lobed, and which, in a state 
of cultivation, are liable to great variation in point of magnitude, form, and 
texture. . They are easily propagated by seeds, layers, cuttings, and trun- 
cheons; every part of the mulberry, like the olive, taking root easily, and 
forming a tree. All the species will serve to nourish the silkworm; but 1. 
alba, and its varieties, are considered much the best for this purpose. In 
warm climates, such as Persia, the leaves of M. nigra are sufficiently succulent 
for feeding the silkworm; but in colder countries they do not answer equally 
well. 
~ 1. M.ni‘era Poir, The black-fruited, or common, Mulberry. 
Titoetion, Poir. Ency. Méth., 4. p. 377. ; Lin. Sp. Pl., 1398. ; Hort. Cliff, 441.; Mart. Mill., No.2. ; 
Willd. Sp. PL, 4 p. 369. 
s. Mbdrus Dod. Pempt., 810.; M. fractu nigro Bauh. Pin., 459. 
avings. Ludw. Ectypa Veg., t. 114. ; Blackw., t. 126.; Wats. Dend. Brit., t. 159.; N. Du Ham., 
te 22.; and the plate in our last Volume. 
Spec. Char., §c. Sexesmoncecious, sometimes dicecious. Leaves heart-shaped, 
bluntish, or slightly lobed with about 5 lobes; toothed with unequal teeth, 
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