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MONTIG'ENOUS, aclj. [from the Lat. rnons, a moun¬ 
tain ; andgigmo, to produce.] Brought forth in the moun¬ 
tains. Scott. 
MONTIGNA'C, a town of France, and principal place 
of a diltrift, in the department of the Dordogne : twenty- 
one miles eaft-fouth-eall of Perigueux, and twelve north 
of Sarlat. Lat. 45. 3. N. lon.1.14. E. 
MONTIGNE', a town of France, in the department 
of the Mayne and Loire: fix miles north-weft of Bauge, 
and twelve eafl-fouth-eaft of Chateauneuf. 
MONTIGNY', a town of France, in the department 
of the Cote d’Or: thirteen miles north-eaft of Is fur Tille. 
MONTIGNY' sur CAN'NE, a town of France, in the 
department of the Nyevre : feven miles fouth-vreit of 
Mouiins. 
MONTIGNY' le ROI', a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Upper Marne: twelve miles welt-north- 
welt of Bourbonne. 
MONTIGNY' sur VINGEAN'NE, a town of France, 
in the department of the Cote d’Or: nine miles north- 
eaft of Cbatillon. 
MON'TIL, a town of France, in the department of 
the Loir and Cher : five miles fouth of Blois. 
MONTIL'LA, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Cordova. It contains two parifhes, feven convents, and 
about 4000 inhabitants : eighteen miles fouth-fouth-eaft 
of Cordova, and fifty-one north of Grenada. Lat. 37. 
40. N. Ion. 4. 40. W. 
MON'TILS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Charente : fifteen miles fouth of Saintes. 
MONTIN'IA, f. [named by Thunberg in honour of 
Dr. Lawrence Moulin, a diftinguilhed pupil of Linnaeus, 
who died in 1785, aged fixty-two. This gentleman was 
the maternal uncle of Dryander, lo well known to all the 
botanifts of this country, and has publillied various bo¬ 
tanical trails in the Stockholm Tranfaftions. His inau¬ 
gural diflertation, publillied under the prefidency of Lin¬ 
naeus, March 28, 1750, is a learned treatife on the genus 
Splachnum, with various botanical remarks made in a 
journey to Lapland, undertaken at the perfualion of his 
great preceptor. This difiertation is printed in the Se¬ 
cond volume of the Amsenitates Academics.] In bo¬ 
tany, a genus of the clafs dioecia, order tetrandria, (clafs 
tetrandria, order monogynia, Smith,) natural order of 
calycanthemae, (onagrae, Juj)'.) Generic charafters—I. 
Male. Calyx: perianthium four-toothed, very lliort, 
ereft. Corolla : petals four, ovate, very blunt, lpread- 
.ing, inferted into the calyx. Stamina: filaments four. 
II. Female. Calyx : fuperior, as in the male. Corolla : 
as in the male. Stamina : filaments four, within the 
teeth of the calyx, very lliort; anthers none. Pillillum : 
germ inferior, concave-plane, fmooth ; ftyle cylindric, 
thick, bifid, lhorter than the corolla ; ftigmas kidney- 
form. Pericarpium : capfule cvate-oblong, two-celled, 
gaping longitudinally; partition thick, two-lobed. Seeds : 
very many, imbricate, ovate, comprefled, winged at the 
edge. The male flowers are fometimes five-cleft, five-fta- 
mened.— EJJ'ential Character. Male. Calyx four-toothed, 
fuperior ; petals four. Female. Filaments barren ; ftyle 
bifid ; capiule oblong, two-celled. 
Montinia acris, or glaucous montinia, a folitary fpe- 
cies. Root woody. Stem lhrubby, angular, branched, 
lmootli, a foot high. Branches alternate, little divided, 
glaucous, fcarred with the refidue of the petioles. Leaves 
alternate, oblong-oval, blunt, nerved, veined, quite en¬ 
tire, fmooth, thickifli, ereft. Petioles very fliort, lubde- 
current, falling off above thebafe. Flowers terminating, 
folitary, fometimes but feldom five-cleft, white. Fruit 
with an acrid flavour. It is an inferior capfule, crowned 
with the four very fpreading toothlets of the calyx, two- 
valved ; partition very thin, contrary to the valves, arifing 
from the receptacle. Seeds in each cell fix or eight, rather 
large, leafy-comprefled, concave, flightly emarginate at 
the navel, with a broad entire membrane about the edge, 
bay-coloured. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, on 
M O N 
fandy hills; found by Sparrman, Thunberg, &c. Intro¬ 
duced here by Maflon in 1774. 
MONTJOUE'T, a town of France, in the department 
of the Doria, on the Grand Doria : ten miles- fouth-eaft 
of Aofta. 
MONTTOUY'. See Monjuich, p. 670. 
MONT'JOY, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lot and Garonne : five miles north of Valence, and 
thirteen eaft of Agen. Lat. 44. 11. N. Ion. x. o. E. 
MONT'JOYE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Roer, and chief place of a canton, in the diilricl of 
Aix-la-Chapelle. The place contains 2912, and the can¬ 
ton 15,522, inhabitants. 
MONT'JOYE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lot and Garonne : eight miles fouth-eaft of Nerac, 
and eight fouth-fouth-well of Agen. Lat. 44. 4. N. Ion. 
o. 36. E. 
MONTI'RA, f. [fo named by Aublet, after Monf. de 
Monti, member of the fuperior council of Cayenne, one 
of his patrons, on whofe eftate at Aroura the plant was 
found.] In botany, a genus of the clafs didynamia, order 
angiofpermia, natural order perfonatte, Linn, (ferophu- 
lariae, Juff.) Generic charafters—Calyx: perianthium in¬ 
ferior, of one leaf, in five deep, lanceolate, acute, fpread- 
ing, nearly-equal, fegments. Corolla: of one petal, fun- 
nel-lhaped ; tube much longer than the calyx, fwelling 
upwards, flightly inflated, incurved ; limb fpreading, in 
five deep, roundifti, acute, equal, lobes. Stamina : fila¬ 
ments four, much lhorter than the tube, inferted into its 
lower part, thread-lhaped, fmooth, two of them longeft; 
anthers oblong, fimple, of two cells. Pillillum : germen 
fuperior, of two round lobes, feated on a glandular difk ; 
ftyle cylindrical, the length of the ftamens ; ftigma capi¬ 
tate, furrowed. Pericarpium : capfule of two round lobes 
and two cells, with four valves, feparating longitudinally 
at the outer fides. Seeds : very numerous, very minute, 
attached to the inner angle of the cells .Effential Character. 
Calyx deeply five-cleft, fpreading; corolla funnel-fhaped, 
incurved ; limb in five equal fegments ; capfule of two 
round lobes, two cells, and four valves; feeds numerous, 
minute. 
Montira guianenfis, a Angle fpecies; gathered by Aublet 
in a cotton-field, at the place above-mentioned, and no¬ 
where elfe, flowering in June. Root fibrous, probably 
annual. Stem feven or eight inches high, flightly forked, 
leafy, fmooth, with four Iharp angles. Leaves oppofite at 
each joint, fefiile, fpreading, lanceolate, acute, entire, 
three-ribbed, fmooth, pale. Flowers three together, in 
fefiile folitary fimple chillers, at the fork of the Item, and 
fum mi ts of its branches; corolla white, fcarcely half an 
inch long. Anblet's Guinn, ii. 637. 
MONTIRA'T, a towm of France, in the department of 
the Tarn: fifteen miles north of Alby. 
MONTIRO'NE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Mela: feven miles fouth of Brefcia. 
MONTIV'AGANT, adj. [from the Lat. mons, a moun¬ 
tain ; and vagor, to wander.] Wandering on the moun¬ 
tains. Scott. 
MONTIVIL'LIERS, a towm of France, and principal 
place of a diltrift, in the department of the Lower Seine : 
thirty-fix miles weft of Rouen, and fix north of Havre. 
Lat.49.33. N. Ion. o. 17. E. 
MONTLAU'R, a town of France, in the department 
of the Upper Garonne: nine miles fouth-eaft of Tou- 
loufe. 
MONTLPIE'RY, a town of France, in the department 
of the Seine and Oife : thirteen miles fouth of Paris, and 
twelve north-eaft of Dourdan. 
MONTLIEU', a town of France, and principal place 
of a diftrift, in the department of the Lower Charente : 
twenty-tw'o miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Pons, and thirty- 
three louth-fouth-eaft of Saintes. Lat. 45. 15. N. Ion. o. 
11. W. 
MONTLU'C (Blaife de), a celebrated French general, 
was born in 1500, of a noble family near Condom. He 
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