SntTICA'cEiE, ilfo'RUS.

1343

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chap. c. pdrncA'cEiE, ilfo'itus. 1343

in 1822,in, sincejably also

1692. Itil.

Fi'cus Town. Flowers inserted upon the interior surface of a hollow glo-bular or pear-shaped fleshy receptacle, ih whose tip is an orifice closed withsmall scales ; minute, many within a receptacle ; those in the upper partmale, the rest female ; or the flowers of each sex occupy distinct receptaclesupon distinct plants. — Male flower. Calyx 3-parted. Stamens 3. — Fe-male flower. Calyx 5-cleft, having a tube that invests a threadshapedstalk that bears the pistil. Stalk adnate to the ovary on one side, andextending to the base of the style : the style is inserted rather laterally.Ovary with 1 cell and 1 ovule. Stigmas 2. Fruit a utricle. Seed pen-

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dulous. Embryo falcate, in the centre of fleshy albumen. — Species nume-rous. Trees or shrubs, occurrent in the warmer regions of both hemi-

iracters

spheres. F. Carica inhabits the south of Europe . Sap white. Leavesalternate, stipulate. Stipules large, convolute, deciduous. (27 Nees ab

species,

{Virg t)

!. Suec.,isposed, imbri-nt of ax of 4sistent,idulouspeness,fleshyfrom aidulousmerica.rh ; the,r state,

Esenbeck , Gen. PI. FI. Germ. Most of the characters are taken from F.Carica L .)

Bo'rya Willd. Flowers unisexual : those of the two sexes upon distinctplants. — Male flower. Calyx minute, in 4 deep segments. Stamens 2— 3.— Female flower. Calyx inferior, in 4 deep segments, that are deciduous ;two opposite ones very minute, and in some instances not present. Ovaryroundish-ovate: it has 2 cells. Style short. Stigma capitate, depressed,obscurely cloven. Fruit pulpy, oval-oblong, with l cell. Seed mostly soli-tary; its skin membranous, its embryo straight, its albumen horny. — Species5; 4 native of North America, 1 of the West Indies : all shrubs, with theirleaves opposite, or nearly so, mostly smooth and entire; and their flowersminute, axillary, fascicled and bracteated. ( Smith, under Bigelcma in Rees’sCycl.; Nuttall in Gen. ; and observation.)

Genus I.

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MO'RUS Town. The Mulberry Tree . Lin. Syst. Monoe'cia Tetrandria.

Identification. Tourn., quoted by T. Nees ab Esenbeck , in his Gen. PI. FI. Germ.; Schveb. Lin.Gen. PI., No. H24.; Willd, Sp. PI., 4. p. 368.; T. Nees ab Esenbeck Gen. PI. FI. Germ., fasc. 3.No. 5.

Synonymes. MGrier, Fr .; Maulbeere , Ger.

Derivation. Several derivations have been given for the word Mbrus : some suppose it to be takentrom the Greek word morea , or moron, signifying a mulberry or blackberry; others derive it frommauros, dark ; and Sir J. E. Smith suggests that it may have been taken by antiphrasis from moros,foolish, the mulberry tree, from its. slowness in putting out its leaves, being anciently consideredthe emblem of wisdom. The Morea, in the Levant , is said to be so called from the resemblanceof the shape of that peninsula to the leaf of a mulberry.

Description, fyc. Deciduous trees, natives of Europe, Asia, and America ,

remarkable for their large leaves, which are mostly lobed, and which, in a state

and M.ot so in■antiacae of n:S 3.-ar headrceolar,situateddowny,e ovary

iressed,

me sidemerica.3tipid esnd vol.

of cultivation, are liable to great variation in point of magnitude, form, andtexture. They are easily propagated by seeds, layers, cuttings, and trun-cheons ; every part of the mulberry, like the olive, taking root easily, andforming a tree. All the species will serve to nourish the silkworm ; but M.alba, and its varieties, are considered much the best for this purpose. Inwarm climates, such as Persia , the leaves of M. nigra are sufficiently succulenttor feeding the silkworm ; but in colder countries they do not answer equallywell.

S 1. M, ni'gra Poir. The black -fruited, or common, Mulberry.

W wn£ ca ? wi ™ 1>0ir - En <W- Meth., *• P- 377.; Lin. Sp. PI., 1398.; Hort. Cliff, 441.; Mart. Mill., No.2.;mild. Sp. Pi., 4 . p. 369.

°jnonyme s . Minus Bod. Pempt., 810.; M. frfictu nlgro Bauh. Pin., 459.i t M gs - Eudw - Ectypa Veg., t. 114.: Blackw., t. 126.: Wats. Dend. Brit., t. 159.: N. Du Ham.,

• a - > and the Plate in our last Volume.

®tar., §c. Sexes monoecious, sometimes dioecious. Leaves heart-shaped,luntish, or slightly lobed with about 5 lobes; toothed with unequal teeth,

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