416 MB. F. JT. WILLIAMS ON THE GENUS DIANTHUS. 



Ground of Kew Gardens in July 1800. I can find no reference 

 to it "by "Willdenow, but was assured it was a wild species. 



121. D. Szowitzianus, Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. p. 503. 



Basi suffrutescens, pilosus. Caudex lignosus crassus. Caules 

 24 centim., stricti ramosi. Folia 25 mm., linearia acuta carinata 

 adpressa uninervia, vagina folii diam. bis longiore. Bra^tese 

 4 obovatse mucronatse. Calyx dentibus lanceolatis acutis 7- 

 nerviis intus velutinis. Petala contigua ; lamina obovato-cuneata 

 maculata, =unguem. 



Hab. Prov. of Aderbidjan, Persia. 



In babit generally resembles _D. rigidus. 



122. D. PTTBERULrs, miJii, in Journ. of Botany, 1885, p. 341; 

 Fnnm. spp. varr. Dianthus, p. 16. 



Puberulus. Caules 24 centim. tenues teretes ramosi, ramulis 

 1-2-floris. Folia 25 mm. 3-5-nervia, lanceolato-linearia acuta 

 carinata adpressa, vagina purpurea caulis diam. duplo longiore. 

 Bractese 8 insequales ovatse acuminata purpurascentes. Calyx 

 purpureus, dentibus 9-nerviis scarioso-alatis lanceolatis acumi- 

 natis. Petala contigua. 



Hab. Mt. Sawers in prov. Luristan, W. Persia {Herb. Kew.} 

 Described from specimens collected by Prof. H. K. Haussknec 



ht 



in 1868. 



## Bractese 2. 



123. D. viridescens, Vis. Orto Bot. di Padova, 1842, p. 138; 

 Walp. Repert. ii. p. 772 ; Vis. Fl. Dalmatica, iii. p. 163, t. 53. 



Nitide viridis, infra glaber, supra scaber. Caules 40 centim., 

 4-angulares ramosi, ramis divergentibus elongatis paniculatis. 

 Folia lineari-lanceolata plana mollia, radicalia acuta 7-nervia, 

 caulina acuminata 5-nervia, vagina folii diam. bis longiore. 

 Bracteae obovatae mucronatse margine scariosse. Calyx dentibus 

 lanceolatis mucronatis lierbaceis purpureis 7-nerviis. Petala 

 contigua, lamina obovata rubra albide maculata subtus virescente. 



Hab 



difi 



being very similar ; but the living plants are quite distinct. 

 124. D. mickolepis, Boiss. Diaan. PI. Nov. Or. ser. 1, i. p- 22 > 



Fl. Orient, i. p. 506. 



Caespitosus, nanus, glaber. Folia 15 mm. linearia obtusa 

 canaliculata uninervia moliia, vagina folii diam. aequante. Flores 



