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Iris, whe-.ice arise many small swortlsliaped leaves, 

 five or six inches long, and halt' an inch broad 

 in the middle, diminishing towards both ends, 

 of a deep green colour, lying over each other at 

 the base : the scape about eight inches high, 

 having one small leaf at each joint, and termi- 

 nated by one flower, covered with a two-valved 

 spathe, of a dirty white, with a blush of purple. 

 It is a native of the Cape, flowering in June, 

 and ripening seeds about the end of July. 



The second species has a fibrous root ; the 

 scape a span or foot high, roundish or scarcely 

 compressed, jointed, smooth, simple or little 

 branched, upright, tlie length of the leaves : the 

 leaves cnsiform, narrovied at the inner base, 

 nerved, smooth, acuminate, upright : the flowers 

 from the uppermost axils of the leaves, some- 

 times three, but often only one : the spathe two- 

 valvcd : the germ pedicelled, sublrigonal, stri- 

 ated : the corolla is six-petalled : the three 

 outer petals obovate, oblong, bearded, spreading, 

 with a yellow spot in the middle : the three in- 

 ner vi'hite without spots, spreading like the outer 

 ones : the seeds numerous, variously angular, 

 depressed, with two flat sides. It is a native of 

 the Cape. 



Cullure. — ^These plants are all increased either 

 by seeds, offsets, or parting the roots, w hich should 

 be performed in August, in all the methods ; 

 the seeds being sown in small pots, and plunged 

 into a bed of old tanner's bark, imcjer a com- 

 mon frame. The seed is chiefly sown for the 

 sake of raising new varieties. 



The plants also require the shelter of a frame 

 iti winter, being apt to draw up weak when 

 placed in the dry stove. Where they can enjoy 

 the free air in winter, when the weather is mild, 

 and be secured from frost and hard rain, they 

 flower and ripen their seeds better than with more 

 tender management. In summer they should be 

 fully exposed to the open air till the approach of 

 autumn, when they should be removed into the 

 shelter of the frame. 



They afford variety among other potted plants 

 in the green-house, &c. 



MOKINA, a genus furnishing plants of the 

 hardy herbaceous flowery perennial kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Diandiia 

 Moncgynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 ■Aggregatce. 



The characters are : that the calyx is double : 

 the perianlhium of the fruit inferior, one-leafed, 

 cylindric, tabular, permanent: mouth toothed ; 

 loothlets two, opposite, longer; all subulate, 

 acute: perianthium of the flower superior, one- 

 leafed, tubular, bifid ; segments emarginate, 

 blunt, permanent, upright, the size of the outer : 

 the corolla one-petalled, two-lipped : tube very 



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long, widening above, a little curved in, filiform 

 at bottom: border flat, blunt, upper lip semi-bifid, 

 smaller; lower trifid; segments all blunt, uniform, 

 the middle one more lengthened: the stamina have 

 two bristle-shaped filaments, aproximating to the 

 style, parallel, shorter than the border : anthers 

 erect, cordate, distant: thepistillum is a globular 

 germ, under the receptacle of the flower : style 

 longer than the stamens, filiform: stigma head- 

 ed-peltate, bent in: there is no pericarpium : the 

 seed single, roundish, crowned wiih the calyx 

 of the flower. 



The species is M. Persica, The Persian or 

 Oriental Morina. 



It has a taper and thick root, running deep 

 into the ground, sending out several thick strong 

 fibres as large as a finger : the stem nearly three 

 feet high, smooth, purplish towards the bottom, 

 but hairy and green at the top : at each joint are 

 three or four prickly leaves, four or five inches 

 long, an inch and half broad, of a lucid geeen 

 on the upper side, but of a pale green and a 

 little hairy underneath, armed on their edges 

 with spines; the flowers axillary on each side, 

 some white and others purplish red on the same, 

 plant ; appearing in July, but do not produce 

 seed in this climate. According to some it has 

 the odour of Honeysuckle. It is a native of 

 Persia near Ispahan. 



Culture.— This is increased by seed or off-sets 

 from the roots. 



The seeds should be sown in the autumn in 

 the places where the plants are to grow, as, from 

 their having a strong tap-root, they do not bear 

 shifting well. The ground in the bed or border 

 near them should not be afterwards much disturb- 

 ed, the plants being only kept clean. They most- 

 ly flower in two or three years after being raised. 



The off-sets should be slipped from the roots 

 while young, and be planted out where they are 

 to stand, in the latter end of the summer, being 

 afterwards treated as those raised from seed. 



They decay to the ground in the autumn, new 

 leaves being sent up in the spring ; but the roots 

 continue several years when not stirred, or injured 

 by severe frosts. 



They are highly ornamental in the principal 

 beds and borders of pleasure-grounds. 



MOROCCO, RED. See Adonis. 



MORUS, a genus containing plants of the 

 deciduous tree kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Monoecia Te- 

 trandria, and ranks in the natural order of Sca- 

 hridce. 



The characters are : that the male flowers are 

 in an anient : the calyx is a four-parted perian- 

 thium : leaflets ovate, concave: there is no co- 

 rolla : the stamina have four awl-shaped fila- 



