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DIANTHIJS ferrugiVeus. 

 Yelloio Pink. 



DECANDRIA DIGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Silenace^. 



DI A NTH US. Bot. Reg. vol. IS.fol. 1548. 



T) . ferrugineus ; herbaceus, floribus aggregatis, bracteis spinescentibus squarrosis 

 proprils calyce brevioribus, petalis flavis cuneatis dentatis, foliis linearibus 

 margine Isevibus basi long^ connatis. 



D. ferrugineus. Linn, mantiss. 563. DeCand. prodr. 1. 356. Tenore 

 Syllofje 207. 



Among the many beautiful species of Dianthus which 

 the lovers of hardy herbaceous plants possess, that now 

 figured is one of the rarest and most remarkable, on account 

 of its flowers being of a clear pale yellow, instead of white or 

 pink as is more usual. 



It is nearly allied to D. carthusianorum, from which it 

 differs in the squarrose character of its bracts, and its smooth 

 edge leaves, as well as in the colour of the petals. 



Whether it is to their intermixture with this, or the little 

 known D. ochroleucus of the Levant, that some of the more 

 precious varieties of Piccotees and Carnations owe their 

 yellow, is unknown ; this is, however, so rare a colour 

 in the genus, that the effect has probably been produced by 

 either one or the other. 



The specimen figured was given me by Henry Fox 

 Talbot, Esq. Its seeds were brought from the Botanic 

 Garden, Florence, by the Hon. W. F. Strangways. 



This is a delicate but very neat hardy perennial, growing 

 from twelve to eighteen inches high, in any light rich soil 

 and rather dry situation, flowering about July or August. 



