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MORÍSIA hypog-æa.
Ground Cress.
Linnean Class and Order. T E T R A D Y N A M I A S I L I Q U O S A .
N a tu ra l Order. C R Ü C I F E R Æ . Juss. gen. p. 2 3 N
M O R I SM . Siliqua lom e n t a c e a , b i a r t i c n l a t a : a rhcuhs c ru s ta c e is g lo b o s is ,
c o r r u l a t o - s u l c l i s , b ilo c u l a r lb u s ; superiore b r e v i t e r r o s t r a to , o e u lis k s p e r -
m is ; inferiore m a jo r e , lo c u lis 3- s p e rm is . Cotyledones '
H e r b a ( S a r d o a ) coespitosa, radice perenm. F o l i a runcmata. S c a p i umflori.
O b s . S s E r u c a r i æ t am h a b i t u q u àm c b a r a c te r ib u s s im illim um , s e d lo iig è
d iffe rt c o ty le d o n ib u s p l a n i s r e c tis n e c r e p lic a tis . D. Don Mss.
M . h y p o g a e a . Hort. Taurin.
Plant apparently perennial, forming a little compact
tuft. Root\oag, fosiform. Scapes many, smgle-flowered,
cylindrical, glabrous, about as long as the leaves, slightly
aUeuuated at the top. Leaves runcinate, glabrous of a
bri-ht green, polished, about 2 inches long, on a short foot-
stafk; segments ovate-oblong, entire or occasionally fu -
Mshed at^he lower edge with a sing e tooth, and_ mostly
terminated by a short diaplianons bristle ; he terminal one
larger, ovate, 3-lobed, somewhat diamond-shaped. Fopt-
stafks and rhachis fringed_ with spreading hristly hairs.
Calyx slightly pubescent, with oval, blunt, connivent sepa s.
% a ls wedge-shaped, bright yellow, entire, double the
leno-th of the calyx. Stamens 6; 4 lo n p r Filaments
sZ p le , slightly compressed, glabrous. Anthers oblong,
of two parallel cells. Ovarium ovate, furnished at the base
Z h two awlshaped glands. Style longer than tl»e ovaimim
cvlindrical, stout. iSii^nia capitate, papillose. PoZ shoit,
Z r iicu late both joints bilocular, crustaceous, globose,
w Z k led upper articulation surmounted by the persistent
Ttyle, lower ¿ne larger, bristly ; cells of the lower articulation
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