MONTIA 



MOILEA 



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few fanciers of rarer kinds of vegetables. In hot coun- 

 tries it may be more desirable. The most remarkable 

 feature is a sort of cup an inch or more in diam., from 

 which arise the racemes of small white or rose-colored 

 fls. One of these cups crowns each of the sts., which are 

 numerous, slender, leafless, and about twice as long as 

 the Ivs. The name "perfoliata" is suggested by the 

 resemblance of the cup to a perfoliate If. In M. per- 

 foliata the cup is usually 2-lobed; and the species runs 

 into M. parviflora, which rarely has the cup transformed 

 into 2 almost disjoined Ivs. M. fontana is the aquatic 

 or semi-aquatic species found in most of the temperate 

 regions of the world. The winter purslane is now a 

 weed in many parts of the world. The seed may be 

 sown all through spring and summer where the plants 

 are to stand. Montia cannot be distinguished from 

 Claytonia by any one character, but the cult, plants of 

 both genera have been sufficiently discriminated here 

 and under Claytonia. 



A. Sts. without true Ivs. 



perfoliata, Howell (Claytonia perfoliata, Don). 

 WINTER PURSLANE. Rather coarse, green, often red- 

 dening with age: radical Ivs. from subreniform to 

 spatulate-obovate, often 1-3 in. broad; cauline Ivs. 

 merely flattened disks: pedicels not longer than the 

 fruiting calyx; petals white, little surpassing the calyx. 

 Banks of streams, Calif, to Ariz, and Mex., north to 

 Brit. Col. ; common near Pacific coast. It grows wild in 

 Cuba but is not native there, as often stated. B.M. 

 1336. R.H. 1897, p. 159. Annual. 



parvifldra, Howell (Claytonia parviflora, Douglas). 

 More slender, green or slightly glaucous: radical Ivs. 

 spatulate to filiform-linear: pedicels slender, much 

 longer than calyx; petals white or pale rose-color hardly 

 double length of calyx. Calif, to Brit. Col., east to 

 Idaho and Utah. Annual. 



AA. Sts. leafy. 



B. Lvs. alternate, numerous, small. 

 parvifSlia, Greene (Claytonia parvifblia, Moc.). 

 Sts. a span to a foot long, ascending or some procum- 

 bent, sometimes reduced to naked runners: radical and 

 lower cauline Ivs. rhomboid-obovate, about J^in. 

 long, contracted at base into a slender petiole; upper 

 narrower and small: fls. few and racemose, rose-color 

 varying to white. The plant has bulb-like offshoots in 

 the axils of the cauline Ivs. Moist rocks, Brit. Col. to 

 Rockies in Mont, and Alaska. Of very little orna- 

 mental value. Apparently perennial. 



BB. Lvs. opposite. 



fontana, Linn. WATER or BLINKING CHICKWEED. 

 BLINKS. WATER-BLINKS. Densely tufted, very green, 

 weak, diffuse or ascending, 1-6 in. long, freely branch- 

 ing: Ivs. spatulate or obovate, mainly obtuse, J^in. 

 broad or less: fls. nodding, solitary and terminal or in 

 a small, loose, leafy-bracted raceme; sepals obtuse, 

 slightly shorter than the petals: caps, globose, nearly 

 3^in. diam. Wet places, Que., Maine, Nova Scotia, 

 Newfoundland, mountains of Calif. Summer. Annual, 

 or perennial by rooting at the nodes. A. Q HoTTES.t 



MOON DAISY: name used in England for Chrysanthemum 

 Leucanthemum and other species. See page 754. 



MOONFLOWER in America always means Calonyo 

 tion aculeatum and related species; in England it rarely, 

 if ever, means this, but Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum. 

 Moonflower in England also means sometimes Anemone 

 nemorosa and Stellaria Holostea. 



MOONSEED: Menispermum canadense. 

 MOON WORT: Botrychium; also Lunaria. 



MOOREA (named in 1890 for F. W. Moore, curator 

 of the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, Ireland) . Orchidacese. 

 One handsome warmhouse orchid, something like Houl- 



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letia, from which it differs in the lip having no claw 

 and being articulated with the foot of the column 

 and the midlobe or epichile not articulated with the 

 hypochile. 



irrorata, Rolfe. Pseudobulbs ovoid, to 3 in. high: 

 Ivs. 2, plicate, to 2 or 3 ft. tall and 8 in. broad: scapes 

 much shorter than or equaling the Ivs., several- to 

 many-fid.; fls. about 2 in. diam., the sepals and petals 

 red-brown and whitish at base; lip smaller, 3-lobed, 

 straw-yellow with dark purple lines, the crest bright 

 yellow; column stout and incurved; pollinia of 2 

 unequal pairs. Probably Colombia. B.M. 7262. G.C. 

 III. 11:489; 29:248. J.H. III. 42:277. G.W. 15, p. 431. 

 The cult, is similar to that for houlletia; to be potted 

 in a mixture of peat, sphagnum and a little fibrous 

 loam; should be rested after growth. It is easily grown 

 and free-flowering, doing weU in a cattleya house. 



L. H. B. 



MOOSEWOOD: Dirca palustris and Acer pennsylvanicum. 



MOR^JA (from a personal name). Iridacex. MOREA. 

 Charming bulb plants much like irises, but they are not 

 so hardy as the common irises and the individual flowers 

 last only a day or so; of interest to amateurs. 



Mostly having corms except in subgenus Dietes which 

 has a short rhizome: perianth-tube obsolete; outer 

 segms. obovate-cuneate, with a reflexing limb; inner 

 similar, smaller; stamens with anthers like those of 

 Iris, but filaments more or less connate; ovary, style, 

 caps., and seed as in Iris: Ivs. few, linear or ensiform: fls. 

 2 or more, clustered, various in color, usually fugitive. 

 About 60 species, 45 of which are S. African, while the 

 others are chiefly from Trop. Afr., one species being 

 found in Austral. Moraa is the African representative 

 of Iris. No one character will separate the two genera. 

 Moreas have no perianth-tube, while irises usually have 

 one. The filaments are usually monadelphous in Morsa 

 and free in Iris. Irises grow either from rhizomes or 

 bulbs, while moreas mostly grow from cprms, except 

 the subgenus Dietes, which grows from a rhizome. Most 

 of the showiest moreas belong to the subgenus known 

 as Morsea proper. There is another subgenus which 

 differs from it in having the ovary extended into a long 

 beak which looks like a perianth-tube, but none of 

 this group is cult. The moreas proper are about as 

 tender as other Cape bulbs. The amateur may find 

 some suggestions as to their cult, under Bulbs, Iris and 

 Ixia. 



By far the largest and most remarkable plant of the 

 genus is Morsea Robinsoniana. This grows 6 to 8 feet 

 high and has the habit of the New Zealand flax, Phor- 

 mium tenax. A splendid specimen mentioned in B.M. 

 7212 bore 457 flowers between June 20 and October 1. 

 The individual flowers are 4 inches across, fragrant 

 and last only a day. At Kew this noble plant has been 

 successfully grown in the south end of a house. The 

 stately plant pictured in G.F. 10:255 grew in a Cali- 

 f ornian garden and was said to be sixteen years old from 

 seed. The finest picture, however, is that in G.F. 

 4:355. 



INDEX. 



lutea, 10. 

 Macleaii, 14. 

 odora, 3. 

 papilionacea, 1. 

 Favonia, 10. 

 polyanthos, 7. 

 prolongata, 14. 



revoluta, 8. 

 Robinsoniana, 13. 

 spathacea, 9. 

 Thomson!!, 5. 

 tricuspis, 12. 

 tristis, 4. 

 villosa, 10. 



tricolor, 15. 

 edulis, 3. 

 fimbriata, 2. 

 glaucppis, 11. 

 iridioides, 14. 

 Johnsonii, 14. 

 juncea, 6. 

 longifolia, 3. 



A. Rootstock a corm, tunicated: ovary not beaked. 



B. Inner segms. conspicuous. 



c. Plants dwarf, 4~6 in. tall. 



D. Lvs. hairy all over. 



1. papilionacea, Ker. Very dwarf, 4-6 in. tall: fls. 

 red or lilac, yellow on the claw; style-crests erect: sts. 



