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Dianthus Barbatus. Bearded Pink or 

 Sweet William. 



Oafs and Order. 



DECANDRIA DiGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cat. cylindricus i-phyllus: bafi fquamis 4. Petala 5 ungui- 

 culata. Capfula cylindrica, i-locularis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



DIANTHUS barbatus floribus aggregatis fafciculatis : fqua- 

 mis calycinis ovato-fubulatis tubum aequantitms, 

 foliis lanceolatis. Linn. Syji. Vegetal, ed. 14* 

 Murr. p. 17. Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 88. 



CARYOPHYLLUS hortenfis barbatus latifolius. Bauh. Pin. 

 208. 



ARMERIUS latifolius fimplex. Single Sweete Williams. 

 Park. Par ad. p. 321. 



LiNNyEus, in his Spec. PL appears not to have known 01 

 what country the Sweet William was a native, and even in 

 the Hortus Kewenfis i this circumftance is left undecided; yet 

 Dodon^eus, in his Pemptades*, mentions its being found wild 

 in Germany, and Prof. Hoffman confirms this in hi* 

 Germanys Flora t. 



At the time Dodon^us wrote (1552) this plant was culti- 

 vated in the Netherlands, from whence it was probably 

 introduced to this country, where it certainly is one of the 

 oldeft inhabitants of our gardens. 



* In petrous coMbus et afperis, fabulous apricifque locis, apud Germanos 



nafcitur. Pempt. p. 1 -7. 



+ Spontc in iylvaticis, montofis {Cam. Siles. Tubing) Germanys Fl. i/9 1 * 



P- »47- ., , 



Beautiful 



