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A kind of garlic (Allium Moly) with large yellow flowers; -- called also golden garlic.

Having but one flower; one-flowered. Gray.

trailing plant (Lysimachia Nummularia), with rounded opposite leaves and solitary yellow flowers in their axils.

ey block (Naut.), a small single block strapped with a swivel. R. H. Dana, Jr. -- Monkey flower (Bot.), a plant of the genus Mimulus; -- so called from the appearance of its gaping corolla. Gray. -- Monkey gaff (Naut.), a light gaff attached to the topmast for the better display of signals at sea. -- Monkey jacket,…

A name of certain curious orchids which bear three kinds of flowers formerly referred to three genera, but now ascertained to be sexually different forms of the same genus (Catasetum tridentatum, etc.).

Hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistils in every flower.

A Linnæan class of plants, whose stamens and pistils are in distinct flowers in the same plant.

Having the sexes united in one individual, as when male and female flowers grow upon the same individual plant; hermaphrodite; -- opposed to Ant: dioecious.

A Linnæan order of plants, having solitary flowers with united anthers, as in the genus Lobelia.

Of or pertaining to the Monogamia; having a simple flower with united anthers.

Composed of solitary parts, as a flower with one sepal, one petal, one stamen, and one pistil.

Arranged in a single row on one side of an axis, as the flowers in grasses of the tribe Chloridæ.

A kind of morning glory (Ipomoea Bona-nox) with large white flowers opening at night.

good; the conformity of an act to the accepted standard of right. Of moralitee he was the flower. Chaucer. I am bold to think that morality is capable of demonstration. Locke.

A climbing plant (Ipomoea purpurea) having handsome, funnel- shaped flowers, usually red, pink, purple, white, or variegated, sometimes pale blue. See Dextrorsal.

A plant of the genus Adoxa (A. moschatellina), the flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky smell. It is found in woods in all parts of Europe, and is called also hollow root and musk crowfoot. Loudon.

n herb of the genus Verbascum (V. Blattaria), having large wheel-shaped yellow or whitish flowers.

s) Americana, producing beautiful bunches of red berries. Its leaves are pinnate, and its flowers white, growing in fragrant clusters. The European species is the P. aucuparia, or rowan tree. -- Mountain barometer, a portable barometer, adapted for safe transportation, used in measuring the heights of mountains. -- M…

garments; a mourning ring; a mourning pin, and the like. Mourning bride (Bot.), a garden flower (Scabiosa atropurpurea) with dark purple or crimson flowers in flattened heads. -- Mourning dove (Zoöl.), a wild dove (Zenaidura macroura) found throughout the United States; -- so named from its plaintive note. Called als…

The Chinese tree peony (Pæonia Mountan), a shrub with large flowers of various colors.