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-placed oppofite, and feveral fmallef come out on each 
fide the ftalk •, the larger leaves are about two inches 
and a half long, and three quarters of an inch broad, 
and are (lightly indented on their edges. Toward 
the upper part of their ftalk the flowers come out in 
large whorls, having to each whorl an involucrum, 
compofed of ten or twelve fmall fpear-fnaped leaves, 
of a purplifli red colour on their upper fide ^ the 
flowers are pretty large, of the fame form with thofe 
of the other forts, of a dirty yellow colour fpotted 
with purple ; they have each two long ftamina fituated 
under the upper lip, which are terminated by bind 
com prefled fummits, and are fucceeded by four naked 
feeds inclofed in the empalement. It flowers in July, 
and if the fummer proves favourable, the feeds fome- 
times ripen in the autumn. 
This plant is propagated by feeds, which, if fown on 
a border of light earth expofed to the eaft, the plants 
will rife very freely •, when they are fit to remove, 
they may be tranfplanted into a fhady border, in the 
fame manner as hath been direfted for the firft fort •, 
and i£ they fhould flioot up ftalks to flower, they 
fhould bo cut down to ftrengthen the roots, that they 
may put out lateral buds, for when they are permitted 
to flower the firft year, the roots feldom live through 
the winter, therefore they fhould be prevented : in the 
autumn the plants may be removed, and planted in 
the open borders of the pleaiure-garden, where they 
will flower the following fummer and if the feafon 
fhould prove dry, they fhould be duly watered, other- 
wife they will not be near fo beautiful, nor will the 
plants produce good feeds. 
MO N B I N. See Spondias. 
MONTI A. See Heliocarpus* 
M O R JE A. Lin. Gen. Plant. 60. 
The Characters are. 
The Jheath of the flower has two valves •, the flower is 
compofed of fix petals , the three upper are erect and bifid , 
the three under fpread open ■, it hath three ftoort ftamina , 
terminated by oblong fummits. The germen is fituated be- 
low the flower , fupporting a Jingle ftyle , crowned by a tri- 
fid erebi ftigma. The germen afterward becomes a three- 
cornered capfule , having three furrows , with three cells , 
containing feveral round' feeds. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fedlion of 
Linnaeus’s third clafs, intitled Triandria Monogynia, 
the flower having three ftamina and one ftyle. 
The Species arc, 
1. Mor^ea ( Vegeta ) fpatha uniflora, foliis gladioiatis. 
More a with one flower in each Jheath , and JwordJhaped 
leaves. Morasa foliis canaliculatis. Lin. Sp. 59. Mo- 
rea with channelled leaves. 
2. Mor^ea {Juncea) fpatha biflora, foliis fubulatis. Mo- 
rea with two flowers in each Jheath , and awl-Jhaped leaves. 
Moraea foliis' fubulatis. Lin. Sp. 59. Morea with awl- 
Jhaped leaves ; 
Thefe plants are both natives of the Cape of Good 
Hope, from whence I received their feeds, which 
have fucceeded in the Chelfea garden, where the plants 
have feveral times produced their flowers, which dif- 
fering from all the other genera of plants in the fame 
clafs, I have taken the liberty of titling it Morea, in 
honour of Robert More, Efq-, of Shrewfbury, who 
is well fkilled in the fcience of botany, and alfo in 
other parts of natural hiftory. 
The firft fort has fibrous roots like thofe of the Flag- 
leaved Iris, from whence arifes many fmall fword- 
fhaped leaves, five or fix inches long, and half an 
inch broad in the middle, diminifhing toward both 
ends, of a deep green colour, lying over each other 
at their bafe, in the fame manner as the Iris j the 
fiower-ftalk arifes between the leaves from the root, 
about eight inches, high, having one fmall leaf at 
each joint, and is terminated by one flower, which is 
covered with a fpatha (or fheath) having two valves ; 
the flower is of a dirty white, each petal having a 
blufli of purple toward their upper part, and a pretty 
broad fpot of yellow toward their tails ; within are 
three flender ftamina terminated by oblong fummits, 
and one ftyle crowned by a trifid ftigma. The flow- 
ers appear in June, and the feeds ripen the end bf 
July. 
The fecond fort hath a fmall bulbous root, a little 
comprefled on the Tides, with a fmooth dark-coloured 
fkin, from which arife three or four awl-ftiaped leaves 
of a pale green, fome of which are five inches long, 
and others are feven or eight, and about half an inch 
broadj terminating with three angles ; the foot -ftalks 
of the flowers rife about fix inches high, and general- 
ly bend at their lower joint ; thefe are garniflied with 
a fmall leaf at each joint, whofe bafe aim oft flirrounds 
the ftalk, which is terminated by two flowers, en- 
compaffed with a withered fheath ; the flowers are of 
an Orange colour ; the petals are pretty broad up- 
ward, but are connected at their bafe. Thefe appear 
in June, and the feeds ripen the end of July. 
The plants are propagated either by feeds, or frorri 
offsets of the fecond fort, and by parting or dividing 
the roots of the firft ; the bell time for transplanting 
of them, and feparating the offsets of the fecond fort, 
and parting the roots of the firft, is in Augult, that 
they may put out new fibres before winter and that 
is alfo the right feafon for fowing of the feeds, for 
when they are fown at this time of the year in fmall 
pots, and plunged into a bed of old tanners bark, un- 
der a common frame in winter, there is little danger 
df thefe feeds mifearrying. The plants will alfo re- 
quire this fort of flicker in winter, for as they are too 
tender to thrive in the open air in England, and if 
they are placed in a green-houfe, they are apt to dfaw 
up weak, therefore when they are flickered under a 
frame, fo as to enjoy the free open air in winter when 
the weather is warm, and fecured from froft and 
hard rains, they will flower and ripen their feeds bet- 
ter than with any other management 2 in fummer they 
fliould be fully expofed to the open air till Odlober^ 
when they fhould be removed into fheker. 
MO RINA. Tourn. Cor. 48. tab. 480. Lin. Gen„ 
Plant. 39. Diototheca. Vaill. Mem. Acad. 1722. 
The Characters are. 
It hath a double empalement •, that under the fruit is tuba-, 
lous , cylindrical , of one leaf , indented at the brim , anti 
permanent •, that of the flower is tubulous , bifid, of one 
leaf , and permanent. The jlcwe r hath one petal , with 
a long tube enlarged upward , and a little incurved. The 
top is divided into two Ups •, the upper lip is fmall and 
bifid , the under lip is cut into three equal obtufe Jegments 3 
the middle one being extended beyond the other. It hath 
two briftly ftamina fituated near the ftyle , terminated by 
he art -fib aped ere It fummits. The globular germen is fitu- 
ated under the ftvzver, fupporting a ftender ftyle which is 
longer than the ftamina , crowded by a t ar get -ftj aped ftig-. 
ma \ the germen afterward becomes a Jingle feed , crowned 
by the empalement of the flower. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft: feflidn of 
Linnseus’s fecond clafs, which contains thofe plants 
whofe flowers have two ftamina and one ftyle. 
There is but one Species of this genus at prefent 
known, which is, 
Morina (Orientalis.) Hort. Cliff. 14. Morina Qfientalis, 
carlinae folio. Tourn. Cor. Eaftern Morina , with a 
Carline Thiftle leaf. 
This plant was difeovered by Dr. Tournefoft, in his 
travels in the Levant, who gave it this name in honour 
of Dr. Morin, a phyfician at Paris. 
It grows naturally near Erzeron in Perfia, and was in 
the Englifh gardens before the fevere winter in 1740* 
which killed alltheplantsthatwerehere, alfo thofe inthe 
garden at Paris •, fo the only plant remaining was in the 
garden of Monfieur du Hamel. Therootof this plant is 
taper and thick, running deep into the ground, fend- 
ing out feveral thick ftrong fibres as large as a finger j 
the ftalk rifes near three feet high ; it is fmooth, of a 
purplifli colour toward the bottom, but hairy arid 
green at the top, garnifhed at each joint by three of 
four prickly leaves like thofe of the Carline Thiftle j 
they are four or five inches long, and an inch and a 
half broad, of a lucid green on their upper fide, but _ 
of a pale green on their under, and a little hairy, 
armed on their edges with fpines. The flowers come 
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