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of Inis wants, and was probably the origin of that extra¬ 
ordinary diiintereftednefs and beneficence by which he 
was greatly diilinguifhed. He obtained the degree of 
doCtor of phyfic in 1662. His botanical knowledge pro¬ 
cured him the efteem of meffieurs Fagon, Longuet, and 
Galois, and he was frequently confulted by them, during 
their labours in the formation of the catalogue of the 
plants in the royal garden, which was publifhed under 
the name of M. Vallot, the firft phyfician, in 1666. He 
had been feveral years in practice before he obtained any 
public mark of efteem, when at length he was appointed 
expedant at the Hotel Dieu ; but a confiderable time 
elapfed, before his humble merit, unfupported by intrigue 
or folicitation, was recompenfed by the place of pen- 
fionary-phyfician to that hofpital. Yet he derived no ad¬ 
vantage from the penfion, which he always returned fe- 
cretly into the money-box. In 1699, he was appointed 
aflociate-botanifl: to the revived Academy of Sciences, 
through the recommendation of M. Dodart, whom he 
fucceeded as penfionary-botanift, in 1707. During the 
abfence of Tournefort, on his voyage to the Levant, in 
1700, the poft of demonftrator of plants in the royal gar¬ 
den was confided to him, at the requeft of that great bo- 
tan ift; who alio honoured him by giving his name to a 
new plant which he brought from the Eaft. See Morin a. 
A few' years before his death, his ftrength began to fail, 
and incapacitated him from continuing his aCtive duties ; 
and he then found it neceffary to add a little wine to his 
diet; but he funk under a gentle and gradual decay in 
1715, in the eightieth year of his age. 
The ordinary mode of life of this medical anchorite, 
which was conducted with the regularity of clock-work, 
is thus defcribed : In all feafons he went to reft at feven 
in the evening, and rofe at twm in the morning, when he 
fpent three hours in prayer. Between five and fix in 
fummeiy and an hour later in w’inter, he went to the 
Hotel-Dieu, and ufually heard mafs at Notre-Dame. At 
his return he read the Scriptures, and dined at eleven. 
At two, in fine weather, he went to the royal garden, 
and indulged his ruling paflion in the examination of 
new plants. Afterw-ards, if he had no poor patients to 
vifit, he fliut liimfelf up in his apartment, and palled the 
reft of the day in ftudy. This was alfo his time for re¬ 
ceiving vifits ; but he gave little encouragement to this 
focial office; for he was accuftomed to fay, “ They who 
come to fee me do me an honour; and they who flay away 
do me a pleafure.” Morin left a library behind him 
worth near twenty thoufand crowns, an herbal, and a col¬ 
lection of medals, but no other property. Among his 
papers were, a very minute index of Hippocrates, Greek 
and Latin, and a meteorological diary of more than forty 
years. Fontenelle Eioges des Acadcm. 
MO'RIN (John), a French prieft and pliilofopher, was 
born at Meung, near Orleans, in the year 1705. Of his 
early life we have no account 5 but in 1732 he obtained 
the profefforfhip of philofophy at Chartres, and difcharged 
its duties with uncommon zeal and affiduity for eighteen 
years. In 1750, as a fort of recompence for his fervices, 
he was, by the biffiop of Chartres, nominated to a ca- 
nonry in his cathedral. He had fome years previoufly to 
this publifhed a treatife “ On Univerfal Mechanifm,” and 
alfo “ A Treatife on EleClricity s” this was laid before the 
public in 1748, when the laft-named fcience was in the 
flate of its infancy; and the work of Morin led him into a 
controverfy with the celebrated abbe Nollet, who wrote 
itriCtures upon it. Morin replied to them ; and with his 
anfwer he clofed his labours as an author. His name and 
reputation flood high as a philofopher in the academies 
of fciences at Paris and Rouen, of both which inflitu- 
tions he was a correfpondent. He purfued his experi¬ 
ments till his death in 1764, when he was about the age 
of fifty-nine. 
MORI'NA, f. [named by Tournefort, in honour of 
Louis Morin, M. D. member of the academy of fciences 
at Paris.] In botany, a genus of the clafs diandria, order 
monogynia, natural order of aggregates, (dipfaceas, Jvjf.) 
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Generic characters—Calyx: double; perianthium of the 
fruit inferior, one-leafed, cylindric, tubular, permanent; 
mouth toothed; toothlets two, longer; all fubulate, 
acute. Perianthium of the flower fuperior, one-leafed, 
tubular, bifid ; fegments emarginate, blunt, permanent, 
upright, the llze of the outer. Corolla: one-petalled, 
two-lipped ; tube very long, widening above, a little 
curved in, filiform at bottom ; border flat, blunt; upper 
lip femibifid, fmaller; lower trifid ; fegments all blunt, 
uniform, the middle one more lengthened. Stamina: 
filaments two, briftle-fhaped, approximating to the flyle, 
parallel, fhorter than the border; anthers ereCt, cordate, 
diftant. Piflillum: germen globular, under the recepta¬ 
cle of the flower; flyle longer than the ftamens, filiform ; 
ftigma headed-pellate, bent in. Pericarpium : none. 
Seed : fingle, roundifh, crowned with the calyx of the 
flower.— EJfential CharaRer. Calyx of the fruit one-leafed, 
toothed ; of the flower bifid ; corolla irregular; feed one, 
under the calyx of the flower. 
Morina Perlica, a fingle fpecies. Root taper and thick, 
running deep into the ground, fending out feveral thick 
ftrong fibres as large as a finger. Stem near three feet 
high, fmoQth, purplifh towards the bottom, but hairy and 
green at the top. At each joint three or four prickly 
leaves, like thofe of carline thiftle, four or five inches 
long, an inch and a half hroad, of a lucid green on the 
upper fide, but of a pale green and a little hairy under¬ 
neath, armed on their edges with fpines. Flowers axil¬ 
lary on each fide, fome white and others purplifh red on 
the fame plant. They appear in July, but do not pro¬ 
duce feed in England. Tournefort remarks, that they 
have the odour of the honeyfuckle. Native of Perfia near 
Ifpahan. It was in the Englifh gardens before the fevere 
winter of 1740, which killed all the plants here and in 
the Paris garden; fo that the only plant remaining was in 
Duhamel’s garden. 
Propagation and Culture. This plant is propagated by 
feed, which friould be fown foon after it is ripe in the au¬ 
tumn, otherwife the plants will not come up the follow¬ 
ing fummer. Thefe feeds fliould be fown in the places 
where the plants are to remain, becaufe they fend forth 
tap-roots, which run very deep into the ground ; and, 
when thefe are broken or injured in tranfplanting, the 
plants feldom thrive. They may be fown in open beds 
or borders of frefli light earth, being careful to mark the 
places, that the ground may not be disturbed ; for it fre¬ 
quently happens, that the feeds do not come up the firfl 
year, when they are fown in autumn; but, when they 
are fowm in the fpring, they never come up the fame year. 
The ground where the feeds are fown, muft be kept clear 
from weeds, which is all that is neceflaryto be done, until 
the plants come up ; where they are too clofe together, 
they fhould be thinned w'hile young, fo as to leave them 
near eighteen inches apart; after which time they will 
require no other culture but to keep them conftantly 
clear from w'eeds ; and in the fpring, juft before the plants 
put out new leaves, to dig the ground gently between 
them, and lay a little frefii earth over the lurface of the 
bed to encourage them. In autumn thefe plants decay 
to the ground, and fend forth new leaves the following 
fpring, but it will be three years from the time of the 
plants firfl coming up to their flowering, though after 
that time they wall flower every feafon; and the roots 
will continue many years, provided they are not dillurbed, 
or killed by very fevere froft. 
MORIN'DA, J. [ Morns Indica, or Indian mulberry; 
fo named by Vaillant, from the fltape of its fruit, and 
its country.] In botany, a genus of the clafs pentandria, 
order monogynia, natural order of aggregates, (rubiaceas, 
Jvff.) Generic characters—Calyx : receptacle common, 
roundifh, collecting feffile flowers into a globe. Perian¬ 
thium five-toothed, fcarcely obfervable, fuperior. Co¬ 
rolla : one-petalled, funnel-form ; tube cylindric; border 
five-cleft, acute, fpreading very much ; fegments lanceo¬ 
late, flat. Stamina : filaments five, very fliort, inferted 
into the tube at top ; anthera linear, erect, almoft the 
length 
