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dlanthus caryophyllus (y.) imbricatus. 

 Wheat-ear Carnation. 



Gfa/} A»^ Order. 

 Decandria Digynia. 



Generic Character. 



Col. cylindricus, l-phyllus : bafi fquamis 4. Petala 5, un- 

 guiculata. Cap/, cylindrica l-locularis. 



Specific Charafier and Synonyms. 



DlANTHUS Caryophyllus ; floribus folitariis, fquamis calycinis 

 ovatis acutis breviflimis, petalis crenatis imberbibus. Willd. 

 Sp. PI. 2. p. 674. Hort. Kew. ed. all. 3. p. 79. 



(a.) flore fimplici. Eng. Bot. 214. 



(|3.) flore pleno. Videjupra No. 39. 



(y.) imbricatus; fquamis calycinis multiplicatis. 



DlANTHUS Caryophyllus. S. — flore pleno ex folis fquamis ca- 

 lycinis longifiime imbricatis. Hort. Cliff. 164. Sp. PI. 587. 



CARYOPHYLLUS fpicam frumenti referens. Epb. Nat. Cur. 

 Cent. 3. p. 368. /. 9. 



CARYOPHYLLUS peregrinus fpica triticea. Weinm. Phyt. 

 t- 339- 



As long as any attention has been paid to the flower-garden, 

 the Carnation or double variety of Clove-Pink has been at all 

 times a favourite obje£t of cultivation in this country; and 

 innumerable names have been given by Florifts to as many 

 trifling varieties, differing only in colour, degree of multiplica- 

 tion of the petals, or in the form and manner of their opening. 



The increafe of the number of the petals, frequently to the 

 exclufion of the ftamens, is the moft ufual deviation from 

 nature, and makes that kind of monftrofity which, for want of 

 a more appropriate name 3 we fomewhat improperly call a double 

 flower. 



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