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DlANTHUS ARENARIUS. SaM> PiNK, 



Class and Order. 

 Decandria Bigynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cat cylindrical I-phyllus, basi squamis 4. Pctafo 5, 

 nnguiculata. Corps, cyliudriea, 1-locularia. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Dianthus arenarius ; caulibus subunifloris, squamis calyci- 

 nis ovatis obtusis, corollis multiftdis, foliis linearibus. 

 M. Suec. 343 .384. Sp. PL 58D. mild. 2. p. 681. 

 Smith in Lin. Soc. Trans. 2. p. 296. 



Sir James E. Smith, in his remarks upon the genus Dian- 



thus in (he second volume of the Transactions of the Linnean 



society, observes, that Ljnneus was the only authority for 



»us plant, and that the specimen in his herbarium is from 



Sweden. In the herbarium of Sir Joseph Banks, the only 



specimen is from the collection of a Swedish botanist, which 



agrees very well with our plant, but is not very perfect. We 



have not ventured to add any of the synonyms usually affixed 



*o this species, because none of them probably are correct, 



Linn.eus, as we are informed by Smith, erased from his 



°wn copy of the species plantarum the synonyms of Bauhin 



and Clusius ; that of Dodon^eus he remarks ought also to be 



struck out, nor does he find any good reason to depend upon 



those of Le Monnier and Sauvages ; and that of Scopoli, 



since added, must certainly share the fete of Clusius's. 



Unwilling to run the risk of misleading with reg-ard to a 

 species so rare and so little understood by botanists in general, 

 we have applied to our friend, the president of the Linnean 

 ^oeiety, who is always ready to lend his assistance in esta- 

 blishing the Linnean species ; and we have had the satisfaction 

 °r learning- from him that our present subject is certainly the 

 wianthls arenarius of Linn^i s. 



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