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A midwife. mon-ti-a, s . [Named after Joseph de Monti, profe or of botany and natural history at Bologna, in the early part of the seventeenth century.] Bot .: Blinks; a genus of Portulacaceæ. Flowers, cymose, white; corolla, of five irregular petals, united at the base. Stamens, three; stigmas, three, nearly se ile; capsule, three-valved, three-celled. Montia fontana is the Water Blinks or Water Chickweed. It has small, opposite, spathulate leaves, and is found in mills, springs, and wet places.