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 Dianthus Caucaseus. Caucasean Pjnk. 



C7a/} rt«^ Order, 

 Decandria Digynia. 



Generic Charatler, 



Cat. cylindricus l-phyllus, baft fquamatus. Petala 5, unguf- 

 culata. Gt£/I cylindrica, fupcra l-locularis. Smith, 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms, 



DIANTHUS caucafeus \ floribus fubfolitariis, fquamis caly- 

 cinis ovato-acuminatis adpreffis, petalis cunei- 

 form: bus asqualiter incifo-ferratis, foliis glaucis 

 margine fcabris. 



Desc. Root perennial. Plant glaucous. Stems affurgent 

 at the bafe, then ere£r, round, fmooth, once or twice divari- 

 cately divided, frequently bearing two flowers near, but not 

 crowded, together. Internodes longer than the leaves, joints 

 tumid, but much lefs fo than in collinus. Leaves linear, acute, 

 keeled, margins fcabrous with minute fpines hardly vifible to 

 the naked eye. Scales of the calyx four, ovate-acuminate, not 

 half the length of calyx, adpreffed, not patent as in collinus. 

 Calyx cylindrical, finely ftriated; teeth fhort, acute, connivent. 

 Corolla fhewy bright red with a dark fpotted circle round the 

 centre. Petals wedge-fhaped, deeply incifed, but the middle 

 incifion not deeper than the reft ; the upper part of the claw 

 raifed into a ridge in the middle and befet with a<few thinly 

 fcattered hairs. Filaments ten, longer than calyx, inferted 

 into a yellow glandular circle furrounding the germen : anthers 

 blue. Germen cylindrical, flyles fcarcely equal to filaments. 



This new fpecies of Dianthus is a native of Mount Cau- 

 cafus, from whence Mr. Loddiges, of Hackney, procured 

 the feeds ; it has confiderable affinity with and appears to be 

 intermediate between Dianthus collinus (Plant, rat: Hungari*} 

 and defms of Dr. Smith, but is fufheiently diftinguifhed from 

 both j from the former by the flowers being lefs aggregate, the 



glaucous 



