CARYOPHYLLE. 
with a hole in the centre just large enough to admit the calyx 
without much compressing, and with a cut extending from the 
centre to the outside. On these cards the flower is preserved 
in shape and form a long time, on these the petals are also 
finely disposed, and the beauty of the Carnation displayed to 
great advantage. 
When placed on the stage they should have the benefit of the 
morning sun till about 9 o'clock, according to the intense heat 
of its rays; the same in the evening, with as much open expo- 
sure to the air at all times, as may be allowed without injury to 
the bloom. In winter Hogg preserves them in frames, in the 
same manner as he recommends for auriculas. When he has 
more plants than he can blow in pots, he plants them in beds 
of the same compost used for the others, protecting them from 
severe frosts and heavy rains, and in other respects treating 
them in the same manner as if in pots.—Hogg’s Treatise, 
Criterion of a fine double Carnation.—The stem should be 
strong, tall, and straight; not less than 30 inches or more than 
45 inches high ; the footstalks supporting the flowers should be 
strong, elastic, and of a proportionate length. The flower 
should be at least 3 inches in diameter, consisting of a great 
number of large, well-formed petals, but neither so many as to 
give it too full and crowded an appearance, nor so few as to 
make it appear thin and empty. The petals should be long, 
broad, and substantial, particularly those of the lower or outer 
circle, commonly called the guard leaves, these should rise per- 
pendicular about half an inch above the calyx, and then turn 
off gracefully in an horizontal direction, supporting the interior 
petals, and altogether forming a convex and nearly hemisphe- 
rical corolla. The interior petals should rather decrease in 
sıze as they approach the centre of the flower, which should be 
well filled with them. The petals should be regularly disposed 
alike on every side, imbricating each other in such a manner as 
that both their respective and united beauties may captivate the 
eye at the same instant; they should be nearly flat, however, a 
small degree of concavity or inflection at the broad end is 
allowable, but their edges should be perfectly entire, that is to 
say, free from fringe or indenture. The calyx should be at 
east one inch in length, terminating in broad points sufficiently 
Strong to hold the narrow bases of the petals, in a close and 
circular body. Whatever colours the flowers may be possessed 
of, they should be perfectly distinct, and disposed in long, 
regular stripes, broadest at the edge of the lamina, and gradually 
becoming narrower as they approach the unguis or base of the 
petal, there terminating in a fine point. Each petal should have 
a due proportion of white ; i. e. one half or nearly so, which 
should be perfectly clear and free from spots. 
Clove Pink, Carnation, and Picotee. Fl. June, Aug. England. 
l. 1 to 3 feet. 
53 D. sytve’stris (Jacq. coll. 1. p. 237. icon. rar. t. 82.) 
stem branched or simple ; flowers solitary; calycine scales 4, 
very short, ovate, outer ones acute, inner ones bluntish ; 
petals very broad, beardless, toothed; leaves crowded, awl- 
shaped, stiff, Xy. H. Native on the Alps of Jura on rocks 
and among stones. D. virgineus, Sims. bot. mag. t. 1740. but 
hot of Lin. Perhaps this plant is the type of D. caryophyllus. 
a bearing one or many flowers. Flowers deep red, scent- 
Wild Pink. FI. June, Aug. Clt. 1732. Pl. } to 1 foot. 
m 54 D. LONGICAV’LIS (Tenore, cat. 1819. p. 76.) stem panicled, 
any-flowered, tufted ; flowers solitary ; calycine scales ovate, 
emargmate, euspidate; leaves linear-lanceolate, thickish, 
8 Le %.H. Native near Naples. Flowers red? 
ong-stemmed Pink. Fl. July. Clt. 1820. Pl. 1 to 2 ft. 
in : GRANDIFLORUS (Poir. dict. 4. p. 514.) stem? flowers 
mewhat aggregate; bracteas ovate, acute, one-half shorter 
* and scale-formed. 
IIJ. Diantuvs. 
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than the tube. Uw.H. Native of Spain. Flowers red? This 
plant ought perhaps to be placed near D. corymbosus. 
Great-flowered Pink. FÌ. July, Aug. Pl. 1 foot. 
56 Monave’truus (Vent. hort. cels. t. 39.) glaucous; stem 
panicled ; flowers solitary ; calycine scales 4, lanceolate, rather 
pungent, spreading, shorter than the tube. Y.H. Native of 
the Levant. D. procimbens, Pers. ench. I. p. 494. Calyx 
tapering. Ovary stipitate. Petals white, under surface cine- 
reous, with purple margins. Filaments united at the base. 
Monadelphous Pink. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1800. Pl. 1 ft. 
57 D. Burcue’tiu (Ser. mss. and D. C. prod. 1. p. 359.) 
stem branched; flowers solitary; calycine scales 4, ovate-lan- 
ceolate, very short, somewhat mucronate ; petals deeply serrated ? 
leaves linear, awl-shaped, striated; lower ones very numerous 
and very long, those of the stems and branches are very short, 
Y.G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Burch. cat. pl. afr. aust. no. 2456. Flowers white. 
Burchell’s Pink. Pl. 1 to 2 feet. 
58 D. emarcina’rus (Ser. mss. and D.C. prod. 1. p. 359.) 
stems tufted ? 1 or 2-flowered ; calycine scales very blunt and 
very broad; calyx short, striated, with bluntish lobes; petals 
emarginate, small, inside white, outside purple; lower leaves 
numerous, linear, flat, serrated. 2%.H. Native about Asty- 
alea. 
P Emarginate-petalled Pink. Fl. July, Aug. Pl. 4 to $ foot. 
59 D. LiısoscHrrzia`nus (Ser. mss. and D. C. prod. 1. p. 
360.) stem generally 1-2-flowered, glabrous ; calycine scales 4, 
ovate, acuminate, a little shorter than the tube ; leaves straight, 
awl-shaped, with scabrous margins. 2. H. Native on rocks 
in Armenia and Iberia. D. petre'us, Bieb. fl. taur. 1. p. 328. 
suppl. p. 300. but not of Waldst. and Kit. D. bracteatus, herb. 
Willd. ex Steven. There is a variety having the calycine scales 
almost one-half shorter than the tube. Flowers rose-coloured, 
beardless, about the size of the clove. 
Liboschitz’s Pink. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1817. Pl. % foot. 
60 D. syzva’ticus (Hoppe, in Willd. enum. 467.) stem pa- 
nicled? flowers solitary or somewhat corymbose ; calycine scales 
ovate-lanceolate. shorter than the tube ; leaves linear-lanceolate, 
obsoletely 3-nerved, glabrous ; petals doubly toothed. %.H. 
Native at Ratisbon. Flowers red? 
Wood Pink. FI. June, Sept. Clt. 1815. Pl. 1 foot. 
61 D. crnnamomevs (Sibth. and Smith, fl. grace. t. 400. 
prod. 1. p. 287.) stem panicled or simple, branches 1-flowered ; 
calycine scales 4, rhomboid, very blunt and very short ; petals 
emarginate, toothed ; leaves lax, bluntish. 2%. H. Native on 
heaths in Laconia, Asia Minor, Cyprus, and about Constanti- 
nople. Petals beardless, white or flesh-coloured above, but of 
a red or dark cinnamon colour beneath. 
Cinnamon-coloured Pink. Fl. June, Aug. PI. 1 foot. 
62 D. vomertpia'nus (Lin. spec. 1673.) stem branched ; 
flowers solitary; calycine scales ovate, acute, very short ; 
petals emarginate or entire. 2%. H. Native of Palestine, 
Smith, in Lin. soc. trans. 2. p. 300. Sal. par. lond.. 57. D. 
tricolor, Adam. Fisch. Petals pale yellow, with revolute sides, 
lead-coloured on the under surface. The flowers of this plant, 
as well as the following, opens at mid-day and closes about 10 
at night. 
Afterncon-flowering Pink. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1804. Pl. 
1 foot. 
63 D. LerTorE'raLus (Willd. enum. 468.) stem branched ; 
flowers solitary; calycine scales 4, ovate, acute, very short, a 
little awned, 2 outer ones very small; petals lanceolate, narrow, 
with entire revolute sides, sometimes a little 3-toothed ; leaves 
awl-shaped, roughish. 2%.H. Native of Caucasus. Sims, bot. 
mag. t. 1739. D. pomeridianus, Bieb. fi. taur. 1. p. 329. but not 
of Lin. D. cretaceus, Adam. Petals white on the upper sur- 
