286 DECANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Dianthus. 



* Flowers aggregate. 



1 . D. Armeria. Deptford Pink. 



Flowers aggregate, tufted. Scales of the calyx lanceolate, 

 downy, as long as the tube. Petals serrated. 



D.Armeria. Lmw. Sp. PZ.586. lVilld.v.2.673. Fl. Br. 460. Engl. 



BoLv.5.t.3\7. Hook. Lond. LISA. Scot.\34. FLDan.L2S0. 



Ehrh. Herb. \ 45. 

 Caryophyllus latifolius barbatus minor annuus, flore minora. Raii 



Spi. 337. 

 C. pratensis. Ger. Em. 594./. 

 Tunica n. 900. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 392. 

 Armeria sylvestris altera, &c. Lob. Ic. 448./. 

 Viola barbata ungustifolia. Dalech. Hist. 810./. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. 



p. 2. 335./ 

 Deptford Pink. Pet. H. Brit. t.56.f.5. 



In pastures, and about hedges, on a gravelly soil. 



Annual. July, August. 



Root tapering. Herb grass-green, downy. Stem a foot high, leafy ; 

 forked and corymbose at the upper part, with straight, stift 

 branches. Leaves linear-lanceolate, keeled, erect ; lowermost 

 obtuse and spreading. Fl. small, inodorous, speckled with pink 

 and white, only one open at a time in each tuft ; their calyx- 

 scales remarkably long, taper, ribbed and downy. Stigmas nearly 

 sessile. 



2. Xy. jirolifer. Proliferous Pink. 



Flowers aggregate, capitate. Scales of the calyx ovate, 

 obtuse, pointless, membranous, overtopping the tube. 



D. prolifer. Li«??. Sp. PL587. mild. v. 2. 673. FLBr.460. Engl. 



Bat. V. 14. t.956. FL Dan. f. 221. Ehrh. Phytoph. 64. 

 Caryophyllus sylvestris prolifer. Bauh. Pin. 209. Dill, in Raii Syn. 



337. Seguier Veron. v. 1. 433. t. 7.f. 1. Besl. Hort. Eyst.cest'w. 



ord.\4. t. 13./ 2. 

 Tunica n. 90 1 . Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 393. 



Armeria prolifera. Lob. Ic. 449./ Ger. Em. 599./ Merr. Pin. 10. 

 Betonica coronaria squamosa sylvestris. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 



335. / 

 /3. Dianthus diminutus. Linn. Sp. PL 587. Willd. v. 2. 674. 

 Caryophylloprolifero affinis, unico ex quolibet capitulo flore. Bauh. 



Pin. 209. 



In gravellv pastures, rare. 



In Selsey island, Sussex ; Rev. Mr. Manningham. DHL Meadows 

 between Hampton-court and Teddington. Merret. In the bor- 

 ders of a field opposite to the mill, out of St. Austin's gates. 



