on the Genus Dianthus. 295. . 
intricate in {fome refpeCts; but its obfcurity I have been more ` 
fortunate in removing than that of Dianthus, It may in a future 
paper, if this Society fhould think it worth their acceptance, be 
illuftrated with fome minutenefs. I had deftined the fame pains 
to the genus of Dianthus; but, having found the confu(ion in 
herbariums and the defcriptions and fynonyms of authors inextri- 
cable, I am obliged now to content myíelf with offering detached 
remarks on the fubje&, like thofe on Veronica printed in the firft 
. volume of our Tranfaétions. I take the fpecies in their order, as 
in the fourteenth edition of Sy{t. Vegetabilium. 
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3. D. ferrugineus, Mant. 563. Linnæus quotes in manufcript 
Miller's Icones t. 81. f. 2, which is undoubtedly the plant, 
tonis an ill- coloured indiftin& reprefentation, which would 
in etos QE: abont the Le 
7. D. diminutus. OF this there is no fpecie in the Linien 
herbarium. All that I have ever feen fo named, were evi- 
dently D. prolifer, varying with a fingle flower in each com- 
mon calyx, as Linnæus himfelf feems to have been per- 
fuaded. =m 
ir D. rupefiris, Suppl. 240, is nothing elfe than D. virgineus, 
whofe hiftory I fhall gem in its place. 
12. D. glaucus. What tases intended by this is sie little 
- white pink with a purple eye, to be found in feveral gardens, 
^ and which many have thought a variety of deltoides; differing 
only in the white colour of its flowers, and in having four fcales 
to the calyx inftead of two, which is a variable circumftance. I 
confefs 
