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MOREA ODORA. 
Perfumed Morea. 
; , RDO NATURALIS. 
Irides. Juss. Gen. p. 58. 
# Sect. 1. Flores fasciculatim paniculati, sub pericarpio bracieé nulla. 
Corolla 6 partita, varie in variis expansa et ineequalis, dum fatiscit involuta, caduca. Anthere 
longz, inter angulos styli accumbentes. Stigmata 3, sub tot fornicibus 2-auritis squami- 
formia. Pericarpium oblongum. Semina subrotunda. Radix stipitiformis et perennis; vel . 
tuber quotannis periens novis super vetustum dum foliatur enatis, sepius ovatum tunicis plus manus 
rigidis et eraticularibus. Caulis gracilis vel crassus, tenax, Folia bifaria ensataque; vel pau- 
ciora sensim attenuata, concava marginibus % versus apicem iaciidom plus minus teretem confluentibus. 
Flores pedunculati. Ab Iride solum differt tubo nullo. In memoriam Roberti More, Armigeri comi- 
tatus Salopiensis, cognitione et amore plantarum olim preclari, hoc genus dicavit Ph. Miller : 
igitur Morea rectius seribendum. 
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# Corolle Lacinie parum difformes. 
M. foliis glabris cum rore multo intus, rigidis; corolla laciniis recurvo-horizontalibus, sublyratis 
lateribus versus apicem inyolutis; interioribus fere duplo angustioribus; stigmatum fornicibus 
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Sponte nascentem in Promontorio Cap, legit F, Masson. 
Floret apud nos Maio. 
A most fragrant species, smelling like the Lily of the Valley, and communicated by E. Wood- 
ford, Esq. It appears tome nearly allied to M. Edulis. Bot. Mag. f. 613. being equally rigid 
with similar contorted branches or peduncles ; andI believe in both, flowering roots never pro- - 
duce any radical leaves. There is no pubescence in any ye: of the Herba, but the stem is 
very finely striated. 
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REFERENCES TO THE PLATE. 
1, The Germen and Anthers 
2. Back and front view of an Anther magnified. 
