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Linntean and Horticultural Societies to efl'edt this mea- 
fure, it being coniidered that their fupport would be an 
additional evidence of the general fentiment of the value 
of the fervices intended to be recorded ; but, the regula¬ 
tions of thole bodies preventing a contribution from their 
general fund, the expenle of the monument was defrayed 
by a fubfcription of individual members, and the work 
was executed under the direction of a committee of four 
gentlemen belonging to the two focieties. * It was at firlt 
intended that the monument fliould have been eredted 
over the place where Miller was buried ; but, it having 
been afcertained that the public pallage through the 
church-yard would be obftrudted thereby, a flat ftone was 
laid on the fpot to cover his remains, and the monument 
was placed in a more convenient part of the cemetery, 
juft oppofite to that of fir Hans Sloane ; and we have given 
a representation of it in the Plate which contains the plant 
dedicated to his memory. See Milleria. Pulteney's 
Sketches of Botany. Halleri Bibl. But. Gent. Mag. Nov. 
1815. 
MILTER (Lady), an accompliflied woman of fome 
literary talents, who publiflied Letters from Italy, 6 vols. 
8vo. She refided at Bath-Eafton, near Bath, where lhe 
entertained feveral ingenious perfolis, who compofed a 
Colledtion of Poems, which was afterwards publi(he 4 - 
For Dr. Johnfon’s opinion upon the fubjedl of this Col- 
ledtion, and of the manner in which it was collected, lee 
Bofwell’s Life of him, vol. ii. p. 350. Lady Miller died 
in 1781. 
MIL'LER’s, a river of New England, which runs into 
the Connecticut a little below Deerfield. 
MIL'LER’s, a fettlement in the ftate of Kentucky, on 
a branch of the Licking: thirty-two miles north-eaft of 
Lexington. 
MILLER’s BA'Y, a bay on the fouth coaft of Jamaica, 
a little to the north of Portland Point. 
MILLER’s THUM'B, / A frnall filli found in brooks, 
called likewife a bullhead. See Cottus gobio. 
MILLER’s TOWN, a town of Pennfylvania, on a 
branch of the Lehigh : twenty-fix miles fouth-weft of 
Eafton, and forty-feven north-weft of Philadelphia. 
MILLER’s TOW'N, a town of North America, in 
Virginia : fifty-two miles fouth of Winchefter. 
MILLE'RIA, /.' [received its name from Dr. Houfton, 
and was firft publiflied by Prof. Martyn, fen. in honour of 
their common friend, the celebrated Philip Miller, curator 
of Chelfea Garden. Linnaeus, in adopting the name, ob- 
ferves, that “ this American plant, whole clole-lhut ca¬ 
lyx entirely furrounds and protects its one or two feeds, 
is well bellowed on a man who (pared no pains in procur¬ 
ing rare American feeds-, and in contrivances for preferr¬ 
ing and communicating them.”] In botany, a genus of the 
clafs fyngenefia, order polygamia-neceflaria; natural order 
compolita; oppofitifolise, Linn, (corymbifera z,JuJ]'.) Gene¬ 
ric characters— Calyx : common one-leafed, three-parted, 
very large, converging into a plane three-fided form, per¬ 
manent; the two inner leaflets equal, fubovate, acute, flat 5 
the outer twice as large, roundilh, acuminate, flat, cor¬ 
date, more deeply divided from the reft. Corolla : com¬ 
pound half-radiate ; corollets hermaphrodite two, within 
the fmaller calycine leaflets ; female one, within the large 
calycine leaflet. Proper of the hermaphrodite one-pe- 
talled, tubular, eredt, five-toothed; of the female, ligu- 
late, eredt, blunt, concave, emarginate. Stamina : in the 
hermaphrodites; filaments five, capillary ; antherae as 
many, eredt, linear, connedted by the middle of their fides, 
the length of the corolla, acute. Pillillum : in the her¬ 
maphrodites ; germ oblong, very (lender; llyle filiform, 
the length of the corollet; ftigmas two, linear, weak, 
blunt, fpreading. In the females ; germ large, three- 
cornered ; ftyle filiform, the length of the corollet; ftig¬ 
mas two, briftle-fhaped, reflex, long. Pericarpium : none; 
calyx converging into a three-cornered figure. Seeds: in 
the hermaphrodite none. In the females folitary, nar¬ 
rower towards the bale, blunt, oblong, three-fided; down 
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none. Receptacle common, very fin all, naked. (In M. 
quinqueflora the female corollet is trifid, and there are 
four hermaphrodite tubular corollets; calyx two-valved ; 
ftyle of the male Ample, of the female bifid ; the calyxes 
have always from feven to nine flowers. Cavanilles. — Ef- 
fcntial Character. Calyx three-valved ; ray of the corolla 
halved ; down none ; receptacle naked. There are three 
■ fpecies. 
1. Milleria quinqueflora, or five-flowered milleria: 
leaves cordate ; peduncles dichotomous ; calyxes double. 
It riles with an herbaceous branching (talk from four to 
five or fix feet high. Leaves about four inches long, and 
three inches broad towards their bale, drawing to a point 
at the end, (lightly ferrate, having two veins on each fide 
the midrib, which diverge and join to it near the bale, 
meeting again at the point, which is generally oblique to 
the footftalk, which is about an inch long, and has the 
leaf running down on each fide of it; the leaves are of a 
light green, and hairy. The peduncles come out at the 
divilions of the (talk ; they branch out again by pairs, 
and terminate in loofe fpikes of yellow flowers, compofed 
of four or five male or imperfedt hermaphrodite florets, 
which have no feed, and one female ligulate floret, which 
is fucceeded by a Angle, oblong, angular, (eed, wrapped 
in the calyx. It flowers in July and Auguft, and" the 
feeds ripen in autumn. It was difcovered by Dr. William 
Houfton at Campeachy in the year 1731. 
/ 3 . M. maculata, or lpotted-leaved milleria. This, ap¬ 
proaches near to the preceding, but the (talks rife fix or 
feven feet high, branching out very wide. The leaves 
are feven inches long, and four inches and a half broad to¬ 
wards their bale, ending in long acute points ; they are 
more deeply ferrate, and have feveral large black (pots 
fcattered over them; their furface is rougher, and they 
are of a darker green. The upper leaves are long and 
lanceolate. The peduncles branch out wider, and the 
fpikes of flowers are (liorter. It was difcovered by Mr. 
Robert Millas at Campeachy, in 1734. This variety is 
reprel'ented on the annexed Engraving. 
‘ 2. Milleria biflora, or two-flowered milleria: leaves 
ovate; peduncles quite fimple ; calyxes Ample. This is 
alfo an annual plant, riling with an herbaceous (talk up¬ 
wards of two feet high, branching out at a (mail diltance 
from the root into three or four (lender (talks, which are 
naked almoft to the top, where they have two ovate-lan¬ 
ceolate leaves placed oppofite, about two inches long, and 
three quarters of an inch broad near their bafe, ending in 
points; they are hairy, (land on naked footftalks near an 
inch long, and are rough ; they have three longitudinal 
veins, and are (lightly indented on their edges. The 
flowers come out at the footftalks of the leaves, in final! 
clutters. The common calyx is compoled of three' orbi¬ 
cular leaves, comprefl'ed together. In each of thefe are 
two imperfedt hermaphrodite florets, which are barren, 
and one female ligulate fruitful floret, to which fucceeds 
a roundilh angular feed, inclofed in the calyx. It was 
difcovered at Campeachy by Dr. Houfton. 
(?. M. triflora, or three-flowered miileria: (tern upright, 
three or four feet high, with ovate-lanceolate leaves the 
whole length, near four inches long, and almoft two 
broad near the bafe ; they have three longitudinal veins, 
and towards the top there are two more which diverge 
from the midrib, but join again at the point; the upper 
fide is of a dark green and fmooth, the under fide pale 
green; the edges are indented. Flowers axillary, in (mall 
clufters, having three imperfedt hermaphrodite florets and 
one female floret in each, on (hort peduncles. The ca¬ 
lyxes are much fmaller than tliofe of the preceding. It 
flowers and feeds here much later than the others. It was 
difcovered by Mr. Robert Millar at Campeachy. 
3. Milleria contrayerba : (tern grooved; branches op¬ 
pofite, decuflated; leaves lanceolate, ferrate; flowers 
glomerate. Stem red, grooved, three feet high. Branches 
l'omewhat fpreading and villofe. Leaves oppofite, em¬ 
bracing, acutely ferrate, fmooth, three-nerved; nerves pro- 
3 tuberant 
