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Fart is tuhulous; but the tipper-Part is 

 expanded, and cut into five Segment i : 

 the Fruit which fucceeds the Flower, 

 is a bicap fular fiat Secd-vpfiel, which 

 js furroundtd on the Borders 'with a 

 Flume, which expands like Rays. 



We have but one Plant of this 

 Genus ; viz. 



Mo NT i a arbor efcens, abut Hi folio 

 ferrato, fruilu racemojo .Houjl . Tree- 

 like Montia, with a fawcd Abu titan- 

 leaf, and the Fruit growing in 

 Eunches. 



This Plant was difcovered by the 

 late Dr. William Houfioun, near Old 

 La Vera Cruz, in New Spain, who 

 gave this Name to it .in Honour to 

 Dr. MoMti, ProfeiTor of Botany at 

 Bononia. 



It grows about fixteen or eighteen 

 Feet high, and hatha woody Stem, 

 which divides into feveral Branches : 

 thefe are befet with Leaver, lome- 

 what like thofe of the yellow Mal- 

 low, which are five Inches long, and 

 four broad, ending in a Point : thefe 

 are fawed round the Edges, and 

 have a Down on their Under-fides. 

 The Flowers are of a greenifh yel- 

 low Colour, and are produced in 

 Bunches. The Seafon of its Flow- 

 ering is in January, in the native 

 'Place of its Growth ; and in Europe 

 it generally flowers a little earlier, 

 commonly by the End of November; 

 and the Seeds are ripe in March. 



This Plant is propagated by Seed, 

 which mould be ibwn early in the 

 Spring on an Flot-bed ; and when 

 the Plants are come up about two 

 Inches high, they mould each be 

 tranfplanted into a feparate (mall 

 Pot rilled with frefh light Earth, and 

 plunged into a moderate Hot -bed, 

 being careful to fhadethem from the 

 Sun until they have takenRoot; after 

 which time they mult have a large 

 Share of freih. Air admitted to them 



in warm Weather ; and they muft 

 be duly watered. In this Hot-bed 

 the Plants may remain till Autumn, 

 when they muft be removed into 

 the Stove ; and the firft Year, while 

 the Plants are young, it will be pro- 

 per to plunge them into the Bark- 

 bed : but the following Winters 

 they will do very well in the dry 

 Stove, which fnould be kept up to 

 a temperate Heat. And in the 

 Middle of the Summer they will 

 bear to be expofed for near three 

 Months, provided they are placed in 

 a warm Situation. In hot Weather 

 thefe Plants muft be frequently 

 watered ; and as they advance in 

 their Growth, mould be fhifted in- 

 to larger Pots filled with frelh light 

 Earth. With this Management the 

 Plants will thrive very well, and 

 in two or three Years will produce 

 Flowers and Seeds. It may alfo 

 be propagated by Cuttings, which 

 fhouki be planted in July, in Pots of 

 rich Earth, and plunged into a very 

 moderate Hot-bed of Tanners Bark, 

 and in the Day-time fcreened fron> 

 the Sun : thefe Cuttings will be 

 rooted by the Beginning ot Sep'iem- 

 her, when they fliould be each tranfr 

 planted into a fmall Pot, and plung- 

 ed again into the Hot bed till they 

 have taken Root ; and aftervvar4 

 they may be treated as the ol4 

 Plants. 



MORINA. 



The Characters are; 



It hath a tubulous anomalous per- 

 forated Flora: er , con fifing of one Leaf 

 which is divided into two Lips : 

 the Upper-lip is again divided into 

 two Paris ; but the TJnder-lip is divi- 

 ded into three : from the FJow?r-cup, 

 ivhich is, for the mofi part, bifid, 

 arifes the Pointal, fixed like a Nail 

 in tbeHindjr-part of the Flower :. but 

 is barren ; for the Flower- cup rejis on . 



