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DIANTHUS VIRGINEUS. VIRGIN PINK, 
Clafs and Order. 
DeEcanprRiIA Dieynia. 
Generic Charafler. 
Cal. cylindricus, monophyllus : bafi fquamis 4.° Petals 5, 
_ unguiculata. Cap/. cylindrica, 1-locularis. ; 
Specific Charaéler and Synonyms, 
** Flores folitarit, plures in eodem caule. 
DIANTHUS virgineus ; floribus folitariis, caulibus paucifloris, 
{quamis calycinis breviffimis obtufiffimis binis, petalis 
crenatis. Smith in Linn. Tranf. 2. p. 302. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 
p- 630. . il 
DIANTHUS virgineus ; caule fubunifloro, corollis, crenatis, 
fquamis calycinis breviffimis, foliis fubulatis. Sp. P/. 590. 
Facq. Aufir. 5. p. 34. Tab. Append. 15. al 
DIANTHUS rupefiris ; floribus folitariis, fquamis calycinis 
obtufiffimis binis, petalis crenatis. Linn. Suppl.240. 
CARYOPHYLLUS fylveftris repens multiflorus. Baub. Pin. 
209. %s 
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Descr. Root creeping. Radical leaves in tufts, linear, rigid, 
fubpungent, channelled on the upper furface and keeled on the 
lower : cauline leaves fimilar but wider, embracing the ftem, 
€re€t near the bale, {preading upwar ; about five pair below 
the firft branches. Svem, in cultivation, from one to two feet 
high. Bra&es or calycine feales two, ovate, adpreffed to the 
calyx, very obtufe, four times fhorter than the Calyx, which is — 
nearly cylindrical, a little pointed, five-toothed. Pefals five, 
fometimes fix, broad-wedge-{haped, toothed at the end, but quite 
€ntire at the fides, naked. Szamens included : /tigmas long ex- 
ferted, rerolie. 5. = 
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