but striated when dry, rough at the margins, pairs more dis- 

 tant at the upper part of the stem. Flowers collected into a 

 close capitulurn, eight or twelve together, but seldom moFe 

 than one or two are expanded at the same time. Involucrum 

 of several oblong oval leaflets, with a membranous margin, and 

 an awn growing from a little below the point, somewhat shorter 

 than the capitulurn : scales of the calyx ovate, awned, of a 

 dark purplish rusty colour, shorter than the tube : segments 

 erect, acute. Claws of the petals very long : limb wedge- 

 shaped, serrated at the tip, of a rich purple colour, larger than 

 those of the Sweet William. 



When we gave the Dianthus figured at No. 1775 for the 

 etrorubens of Jacquin, we had not seen this plant, which we 

 now think more resembles his figure than that, at least in the 

 form and colour of the involucrum. Perhaps they may be all 

 considered as varieties of Dunthus carthusianorum, of which 

 species we have no doubt our present plant is the variety (3 of 

 the species Plantarum, and as such we find it recorded in the 

 Banksian herbarium. This variety seems however to be 

 constant in having the flowers sessile in a terminal capitulurn, 

 and the character of " floribus sw^-aggregatis" applies to the 

 variety a. only, being in no species more perfectly aggregate 

 than in this. In our plant the leaves are not evidently 

 3-nervcd. These characters may be sufficient to distinguish 

 it as a species from variety « ; and perhaps we should have 

 done right in applying the name of atrorubens to this, rather 

 than to the one we have so denominated, which differs from 

 this in the smaller size and greater number of flowers in the 

 gftjne capitulurn ; in the involucrum being much larger and 

 longer, with the lower leafiets embracing the whole base of 

 the capitulurn and extending beyond it; in all which respects 

 it recedes from our plant, and agrees with the specimens of 

 Dialthvs ferrugineus preserved in the Banksian Herbarium. 

 We hope to have another opportunity of illustrating the varie- 

 ties of Dianthus carthusianorum. 



A hardy perennial or rather biennial, propagated by slips 

 or by seeds. Flowers in August and September. Communi- 

 cated by Mr. Jenkins, from his Botanic Garden, Gloucester- 

 Place, New-Road. 



