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Dianthus Discolor. Two-Coloured 



Pink. 



Oafs and Order* 

 Decandria Digynia* 



Generic Charaeler. 



Cat cylindricus, l-phyllus: bafi fquamis 4. PetaLi 5, urt- 

 guicuiaia. Cap/, cylindrica, i-locu!aris. 



Specific Chara&cr. 



DJANTHUS difcohr s floribus folitariis, fquamis calycinis 

 fubfenis ovato-acuminatis patentibus, corollis 

 inaequalitcr {erratis fubtus difcoloribus, foliis 

 lanccoiatis fcabris internodio lon^ioribus. 



In a genus fo fubject, to produce varieties as Dianthus, 

 It is not without helitation that we confider the prefent one as 

 a diftinct fpecies. It has certainly great affinity with Dian- 

 thus caucafeuSy No. 795 of this work, and is alfo a native of 

 Mount Caucafus. It differs from it however not only in the 

 fize and colour of the flower, but in having die fcales or 

 braQ.es patent, inflead of being, as in caucafeuSy adprefled to 

 the calyx and terminated in a longer awn-like procefs, and in 

 having the laft. leaves of the Item always clofe to the calyx, 

 giving the appearance of fix fcales inftead of four, the ufual 

 number. Neither has the plant the glaucous hue of the 

 former. The petals are larger, not fo deeply and lefs re- 

 gularly incifed, and their under furface is of a greenifh ful- 

 phur colour, forming a ftriking contrail to the bright carmine 

 of the upper, which circumftance has given rife to our fpecific 

 name. Among the Caucafian plants in the Bankhan Her- 

 barium, there are fpecimens under the name of Diavthus 

 etweafcus, which come nearer to our prefent plant than to the 



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