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MONTANA 



MOR^A 



is being attempted in Flathead valley, a large north- 

 western valley, with the best results. The range of 

 varieties is fully as wide as that of the Bitter Root, and 

 as the altitude is about 400 feet less it is to be expected 

 that fully as good results will eventually be attained. 



Some difficulty is experienced from frosts in the Flat- 

 head country, but as the heavy growth of deciduous and 

 conifer timber, which covers the majority of the bench 

 lands in this region, is cut off, no doubt the increased 

 circulation of air will prevent serious loss to fruit from 

 frost. Among other valleys achieving marked success 

 in fruit and vegetable culture, are those of the Gallatin, 

 Yellowstone, Upper and Lower Missouri, Clark's Fork 

 of the Yellowstone, the Judith, Milk, Marias, Teton, 

 Madison and Jefferson. In these valleys the better 

 apples, cherries and plums are readily grown, and it is 

 safe to say there are not 160 acres of farm lands in the 

 state where, if the planter will avoid alkali soil and set 

 trees with reference to the possibility of irrigating them, 

 the Transcendant and Hyslop crabs, and the hardier 

 of the standard apples, together with the small fruits, 

 cannot be successfully grown. g_ ]\j < EMERY. 



MONTBRETIA. See Tritonia. 



MONTEREY CYPRESS. Cupressus macrocarpa. 



M6NTIA (Guiseppe Monti, professor of botany at Co- 

 logne in the first half of the eighteenth century). Por- 

 tulacacece. About 18 species of American herbs, includ- 

 ing the Winter Purslane, a salad or pot-herb known to 

 the European trade as Claytonia perfoliata. This odd 

 plant is perhaps cult, in America by a few fanciers of 

 rarer kinds of vegetables. In hot countries it may be 

 more desirable. It is an annual plant forming a com- 

 pact tuft about 9-12 in. high. The Ivs. are all from the 

 root, tender, thick, fleshy, with a slender petiole about 

 2 in. long, and a blade about % in. long, which varies 

 from lanceolate to rotund. The most remarkable feature 

 is a sort of cup an inch or more in diameter, from which 

 arise the racemes of small white fls. One of these cups 

 crowns each of the stems, 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 leaf. In M. perfoliata the cup is usually 

 2-lobed, and the species runs into M. parviflora, which 

 rarely has the cup transformed into two almost dis- 

 joined Ivs. 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 cultivated plants of both genera 

 have been sufficiently discriminated here and under 

 Claytonia. The latest monograph is by B. L. Robinson 

 in Syn. Flo. N. Amer., Vol. I, part I, fasc. II (1897). 



A. Stems without true Ivs. 

 B. Pedicels short, seldom exceeding the fruiting calyx. 



perfoliata, Howell (Claytonia perfoliata, Don). WIN- 

 TER PURSLANE. Rather coarse, green, often reddening 

 with age. 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. 



BB. Pedicels in fruit 2-6 lines long, much longer than 

 the calyx. 



parvifldra, Howell (Claytonia parviflora, Dough). 

 More slender, green or slightly glaucous. Calif, to Brit. 

 Col., east to Idaho and Utah. 



AA. Stems with numerous small alternate Ivs. 



parvifdlia, Greene (Claytonia parvifdlia, Moc.). Fls. 

 rose-color to white. Plant has bulblet-like offsets. 

 Moist rocks, Brit. Col. to Rockies in Mont, and Alaska. 

 This and the preceding one have been advertised, but 

 have little if any ornamental value. -^V M 



MOON DAISY. Name used in England for Chrysan- 

 themum Leucanthemum. 



MOONFLOWER in America always means Ipomoea 

 Bona-Nox and related species ; in England it rarely 

 if ever, means this, but Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum 

 our common white weed or ox-eye daisy. Moonflower 



in England also means occasionally Anemone nemorosa 

 and Stellaria Holostea. 



MOONSEED. Menispermum Canadense. 

 MOONWORT. Botryehium; also Lunar ia. 



MOOSEWOOD. Dirca palustrits and Acer PenKsyl 

 vanicum. 



MOR2EA (probably named after Robert More, botar.ist, 

 Shrewsbury, England). Iridacece. Charming bulbous 

 plants much like Irises, but unfortunately they are not sc 

 hardy as the common Irises and the individual fls. lasl 

 only a day or so. Moraea is a genus of about 60 species, 

 45 of which are S. African, while the rest are chieflj 

 from tropical Africa. Moraea is the African representa- 

 tive of Iris. No one character will separate the twc 

 genera. Moraeas have no perianth tube, while Irises 

 usually have one. The filaments are usually monadel- 

 phous in Moraea and free in Iris. Irises grow either from 

 rhizomes or bulbs, while Moraeas mostly grow from 

 corms, except the subgenus Dietes, which grows from t 

 rhizome. Most of the showiest Moraeas belong to tht 

 subgenus known as Mora?a proper. Species 7-13, de- 

 scribed below, belong to this group. There is anothei 

 subgenus which differs from it in having the ovary ex- 

 tended into a long beak which looks like a perianth tube, 

 but none of this group is cult. The Morseas proper art 

 about as tender as other Cape bulbs. The amateur maj 

 find some suggestions as to their culture under Bulbs, 

 Iris and Ixia. 



By far the largest and most remarkable plant of the 

 genus is Morcea Hobinsoniana. This grows 6-8 ft. high 

 and has the habit of the New Zealand flax, Phormium 

 tenax. A splendid specimen mentioned in B.M. 7212 

 bore 457 flowers between June 20 and Oct. 1. The indi- 

 vidual fls. are 4 in. 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 Californian garden and was said to 

 be 16 years old from seed. The finest picture, however, 

 is that in G.F. 4:355. 



bicolor, 3. 

 Dietes, 10. 

 edulis, 9. 

 fimbriata, 8. 

 glaueopis, 5. 

 iridioides, 2. 



INDEX. 



juncea, 11. 

 longifolia, 9. 

 hitea, 4. 

 papilionacea, 7. 

 Pavonia, 4. 

 polyanthos, 13. 



Robinsoniana, 1. 

 spathacea, 10. 

 tricuspis, 4, 6. 

 tristis, 12. 

 villosa, 4. 



A. Hootstock a short creeping rhizome. 



(Subgenus Dietes). 

 B. Color of fls. chiefly white. 



c. Height of plants 6-8 ft 1. 



cc. Height of plants 1-2 ft 2. 



BB. Color of fls. chiefly yellow 3. 



AA. Kootstock a tunicated corm. 



B. Inner segments inconspicuous. 



(Subgenus Vieusseuxia). 

 c. Color of fls. chiefly orange- 

 red 4. 



cc. Color of fls. chiefly white. 



D. Spots blue 5. 



DD. Spots brown 6. 



BB. Inner segments conspicuous. 

 c. Height of stems 1-3 in. 



D. Lvs. hairy all over 7. 



DD. Lvs. hairy only at the edges. 8. 

 cc. Height of stems more than 



3 in. 



D. Stems provided with 1 long 

 wiry leaf, just below the 



inflorescence 9. 



DD. Stems not so provided. 



E. fls. usually 1 or 2 on 



a stem 10. 



EE. Fls. loosely corymbose. 



fls. small. 

 F. Spathes %.-% in. 



long 11. 



FF. Spathes \% in. 



long 12. 



13. 



Robinsoniana 



iridioides 



bicolor 



Pavonia 



glaucopis 

 tricuspis 



papilionaeea 

 fimbriata 



edulis 



spathacea 



juncea 



tristis 

 polyanthos 



