M O N 



M O R 



MONKEY-FLOWER. See Mimtjlus; 

 MONKEY's-BREAD. See Adaivsonia. 

 MONK'S-HOOD. See Aconitum. 

 MQNK's-RHUBARB. See Rumex. 



MONSONTA, a genus containing plants of 

 the herbaceous under-shrubby biennial and per- 

 ennial kinds, for the green-house. 



It belongs to the cla^s and order Mown!: 

 Dodecandria, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Grii'iiial i. 



The characters arc. that the calyx is a five- 

 leaved penanthium : leaflets lanceolate, awned, 

 equal, permanent : the corolla has five petals, 

 obovate, prannorse - toothed, longer than the 

 calyx, inserted into the base of the pitcher of 

 stamens: the stamina have fifteen filaments, 

 united in five bodies, three in each, all connected 

 at the ba-e, and forming' a very short pitcher: 

 lanthers oblontr : the pistillum is a five-cornered 

 short germ : stvle awl-shaped: stigmas five, ob- 

 long : the pericarpium is a five-cornered capsule, 

 live-celled: each cell fixed to a very long, twisted, 

 terminating tail : the seeds solitary. 



The species are: 1. M. speciosa, Fine- 

 leaved Monsonia; 2. M. lohata, Broad-leav- 

 ed Mcmsoniaj 3. M. ovutu, Undulated 

 Monsonia. 



The first has the radical leaves petioled, se- 

 veral, bipinnate-quinate: leaflets linear, pinnate, 

 pinnassublanceolate : thescapes twoorthree, one- 

 flowered, a span high, twice as long as the leaves, 

 having in the middle a small six-leaved involucre, 

 with lanceolate leailets : the (lower handsome : 

 in habit and fructification it bears great affinity 

 to Geranium, but is distinguished from it by 

 having the appearance of Anemone^ and by the 

 stamens and style being different. 



The second species is very like the preceding, 

 differing in no respect from it, not even in the 

 very singular crown of the germ ; but the leaves 

 are sir.: pie, bluntlv seven-Iobed, crcnate, blunt, 

 snbpubesccnt (as the whole herb is), entirely 

 resembling thi •■. of some sorts of Geranium : 

 the fruit has a beak to it, with a very long 

 point. 



The third has the stem herbaceous, columnar, 

 and filiform: the leaves opposite; about equal 

 in length to the foot-stalks, ovate, ( r nat< I, 

 aboi j, with >mc hairs : I 



; . . * : ' ; vers 



are axilla! ,on \ cry li ig fool <\\ ofa« hi i h 

 yellow colour; the 1 



of the II when 



I'ruil iii pules, onc- 



ol tie < : the 

 two first bei ■:, flowering in A] il 



and May, and the third biennial, flowering^m 

 August. 



Culture. — The first sort rarely, if ever, ripen- 

 eds in this climate, must be increased by 

 cuttings of the root, which should be planted 

 good mould, and plunged in a ;an- 

 hot-bed, watering them occasionally, when in a 

 little time buds appear on the tops of the cuttings 

 are left out' of the ground. Tliev should 

 tied as hardy green-house plants, .orbe after- 

 removed into separate pots, and shel- 

 i under a od garden irame in the winter 



season. 



And the second sort should be raised in the 

 same manner. 



But the third should be raised from seeds, 

 which must be sown in the early spring in pots 

 of light earth, and plunged in a mild hot-bed. 

 When the plants are come up, they should be 

 removed into other pots separately, and be ma- 

 naged as the other kinds. 



They afford variety among other potted plants. 



MOON TREFOIL. See Medicago. 



MOR/EA, a genus furnishing plants of the 

 bulbous-tuberous-rooted herbaceous flowering 

 perennial kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Tr/andrin 

 Moriogynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 / atce. 



The characters arc: that the calyx has uvo- 

 valved spathes : the corolla six-petalled : three 

 inner parts spreading; the rest as in Iris : the 

 stamina consist of three short filaments : anthers 

 oblong : the pistillum is an inferior germ : style 

 simple: stigmas three, bifid : the pericarpium 

 is a three-cornered capsule, three-grooved, three- 

 celled : the seeds very many, round. 



The species cultivated arc : l.M. Iriopetala, 

 Iris-petalled Moraea ; 2. M. Iridioides, Iris- 

 like Sword-shaped Morsea. 



The first sort has two varieties, the first of 

 which has the bulb with the se des connected at 

 the sides a little compressed, but distinct at the 

 base: with ten compressed teeth, and as many 

 alternately shorter : the skin smooth, and dark- 

 coloured : the culm branched: branches three 

 or four : the leaves three or four, awl-shaped, 

 pale-green, from five to seven or ei.ht inches in 

 length, and about half at in< h broad, terminat- 

 ing with three angli ::1 ics two-vah d, 

 ibular, two-fio \ • \\\ ers are « hitc: 

 the sei Idish rust colour. Itisanative 

 of tl e Cape, fl i in .In . 



1 he second has (he conn icted at the 



bifid, depressed, but n eompn ssed : the 



; two d, two- low er d : the 



two, seldom more than two on a scape : the 



roots are fibrous, like those o/ the Hag-leaved 



