286 DECANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Dianthus. 



* Flowo'S aggregate. 



1. D. Armeria, Deptford Pink. 



Flowers aggregate, tufted. Scales of the calyx lanceolate, 

 downy, as long as the tube. Petals serrated. 



D. Armeria. Linn. Sp. PL 586. Willd.v.2.673. Fl.Br.460. Engl. 



Bof.v.5.t.3\7. Hook. Lo7ul.t. 134. Scot\34, FLDan.t. 230. 



Ehrh.Herb. 145. 

 Caryophyllus latifoUus barbatus minor annuus, flora minore. Rail 



Syn. 337. 

 C. pratensis. Ger. Em.594.f. 

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

 Armeria sylvestris altera, &c. Lob. Ic. 44S./. 

 Viola barbata angustifolia. 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 afoot high, leafy; 

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

 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. D. prolifer. Proliferous Pink. 



Flowers aggregate, capitate. Scales of the calyx ovate, 

 obtuse, pointless, membranous, overtopping the tube. 



D. prolifer. Linn. Sp. PI. 587. Willd.v.2.673. Fl.Br.460. Engl. 



Bat. V. 14. t. 956. Ft. Dan. t.22\. Ehrh. Phytoph. 64. 

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



337. Seguier Veron. v. 1 . 433. t. 7.f. 1 . Best. Hort. Eyst. cestiv. 



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

 Tunica n. 901. 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. f. 

 (5. Dianthus diminutus. Linn. Sp. PI. 587. Willd. v. 2. 674. 

 Caryophyllo prolifero affinis, unico ex quolibet capitulo flore. Bauh. 



Pin. 209. 



In gravelly pastures, rare. 



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

 between Hampton-court and Tuddington. Merrett. In the bor- 

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



