( 1775 ) 



dlanthus atrorubens. cluster-headed 



Pink. 



Class and Order. 

 Decandria Digynia„ 



Generic Character. 



Cal, eylindricus, 1-phyllus : basi squamis 4, Petala 5, 

 unguiculata. Caps, cylindrica l-locularis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Dianthus atrorubens; floribus aggregates capitatis, squamis 

 calycinis ovatis aristatis, invoiucro ovato aristato longi- 

 tudine capituli, foliis lineari-lanceolatis enerviis. IViild. 

 Sp. PL 2. p. 672. Hort. Kew. edit. alt. 3. p. 78. 



Dianthus atrorubens ; floribus aggregates, squamis calycinis 

 ovatis aristatis tubo brevioribus, foliis connatis stnatis. 

 Allion. Ped. n. 1545. Jacq. Ic. Rar. 3. t. 467. 



Caryophyllus sylvestris, flore rubro plurimo de summo caule 

 prodeunte. Segu. Veron. 434. t. 8./ 2. 



Dianthus atrorubens et capitatus. Donn Cant, a Pursh 

 p. 144. 



The name of capitatus, by which this Pink has been 

 known in our gardens, is appropriate enough ; but as it differs 

 in nothing but a less intensity of colour from Allioni's 

 atrorubens, as figured by Jacquin, and this name being 

 already established, we are under the necessity of retaining it, 

 though less applicable : another example of the inconvenience 

 arising from giving names derived from colour or other qua- 

 lities so inconstant. 



Several species of Dianthus are occasionally, some of 

 them constantly, dioecious. So in our present plant the 

 stamens were found to be defective, the styles very long and 



spreading ; 



