15 
DIANTHUS ferrugineus. 
Yellow Pink. 
DECANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. SILENACER. 
DIANTHUS. Bot. Reg. vol. 18. fol. 1548. 
D. ferrugineus; herbaceus, floribus aggregatis, bracteis spinescentibus squarrosis 
propriis calyce brevioribus, petalis flavis cuneatis dentatis, foliis linearibus 
margine leevibus basi longè connatis. 
D. ferrugineus. Linn. mantiss.: 563. DeCand. prodr. 1. 356. Tenore 
Sylloge 207. 
Among the many beautiful species of Dianthus which 
the lovers of hardy herbaceous plants possess, that now 
figured is one of the rarest and most remarkable, on account 
of its flowers being of a clear pale yellow, instead of white or 
pink as is more usual. 
It is nearly allied to D. carthusianorum, from which it 
differs in the squarrose character of its bracts, and its smooth 
edge leaves, as well as in the colour of the petals. 
Whether it is to their intermixture with this, or the little 
knowh D. ochroleucus of the Levant, that some of the more 
precious varieties of Piccotees and Carnations owe their 
yellow, is unknown; this is, however, so rare a colour 
in the genus, that the effect has probably been produced by 
either one or the other. 
The specimen figured was given me by Henry Fox 
Talbot, Esq. Its seeds were brought from the Botanic 
Garden, Florence, by the Hon. W. F. Strangways. 
This is a delicate but very neat hardy perennial, growing 
from twelve to eighteen inches high, in any light rich soil 
and rather dry situation, flowering about July or August. 
