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MOREA ODORA.
Perfumed Morea.
ORDO NATURALIS.
Irides. .Juss. Gen p. 58.
* Sect. 1. Flores fasciculatim paniculati, sub pericarpio bracteá nullá.
Corolla 6 partita, varie in variis expansa et inæqualis, dum fatiscit involuta, caduca. Antheræ longæ, inter angulos styli accumbentes. Stigmata 3, sub tot fornicibus 2-auritis squamiformia. Pericarpium oblongum. Semina subrotunda. Radix stipitiformis et perennis; vel tuber quotannis periens novis super vetustum dum foliatur enatis, sæpius ovatum tunicis plus minus rigidis et craticularibus. Caulis gracilis vel crassus, tenax. Folia bifaria ensataque; vel pauciora sensim attenuata, concava marginibus versus apicem in caudam plus minus teretem confluentibus. Flores pedunculati. Ab Iride solum differt tubo nullo. In memoriam Roberti More, Armigeri comitatus Salopiensis, cognitione et amore plantarum olim præclari, hoc genus dicavit Ph. Miller: igitur Morea rectius scribendum.
* Corollæ Laciniæ parum difformes.
M. foliis glabris cum rore multo intus, rigidis; corolla laciniis recurvo-horizontalibus, sublyratis lateribus versus apicem involutis; interioribus fere duplo angustioribus; stigmatum fornicibus amplis.
Sponte nascentem in Promontorio Cap, legit F. Masson.
Floret apud nos Maio.
A most fragrant species, smelling like the Lily of the Valley, and communicated by E. Woodford, Esq. It appears to me nearly allied to M. Edulis. Bot. Mag. f. 613. being equally rigid with similar contorted branches or peduncles; and I believe in both, flowering roots never produce any radical leaves. There is no pubescence in any part of the Herba, but the stem very finely striated.
REFERENCES TO THE PLATE.
- The Germen and Anthers
- Back and front view of an Anther magnified.
