Morina
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Morina (Louis Morin, a French botanist. 1636- 1715). Dipsaceae. Perennial herbs, suitable for borders and rock-gardens. Somewhat thistle-like or resembling spiny plants of the Labiatae, glabrous or pubescent: lvs. opposite or whorled, narrowly oblong or linear, mostly spinoustoothed: fls. whorled in spikes, the whorls with wide If.-like bracts, and with spinous bracteoles among the fls.; calyx 2-lipped, the lips entire or 2-lobed; corolla 5-lobed and somewhat 2-labiate, the tube curved; stamens 2 or 4, and sometimes a sterile one.—About 10 species, in Asia, allied to Cephalaria and Dipsacus.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963