DECANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Dlantlms. 28T 



Norwich. Mr. Humphrey. In a marl pit at Landridge hill, 

 Hanley castle, Worcestershire j Mr. Ballard. H'ithering. 



Annual. July. 



Root small, tapering. Herb grass-green, smooth, except the edges 

 and ribs of the short, linear, acute leaves, which are rough with 

 minute sharp teeth. Stem from 3 to 18 inches high, round, 

 rushy, smooth, more or less branched. Fl. scentless, in sohtary, 

 terminal, stalked heads, encompassed with 4 broad, membranous, 

 dry, concave, obtuse scales, as long as the ca/yx, or longer 3 be- 

 sides 2 narrow ones to each Jiower. Pet. rose-coloured, inversely 



heart-shaped, small, smooth. /3 is a starved variety, bearing 



solitary, not aggregate, ^oit^ers. 



** Flowers solitari/, several on the same stem. 



3. D. Caryophyllus. Clove Pink, or Carnation. 



Flowers solitary. Scales of the calyx almost rhomboid, very 

 short. Petals notched, beardless. 



D. Caryophyllus. Linn. Sp. PL :S7. mild. v. 2. 074. Sm. Tr. of 

 Lbm.Soc.v. 2. 299. fl.Br.46i. Engl. Dot. v. 'd. t. 2\4. Ehrh. 

 PL Of. 144. 



Caryophyllus simplex, flore minore, pallide rubente. Bauh. Pin. 

 208. 'RaiiSyn.:^36. 



C. sylvestris tertius, flore pallido suav^ rubente. Lob. Ic. 443./. 



C. sylvestris simplex. Ger. Em. 59 1 ./. 



Caryophylli flores sylvcstres. Camer. Epit. 35 1 ,/. 



Tunica n. 800. Hall. Hist. 2;. 1. 391. 



Wall Pink. PeL H. BriL t. 56./. 1. 



/3. Dianthus arenarius. Huds. 185, excluding the syn. 



On old ruinous walls. 



On Rochester, Deal, Sandown, and otlier castles, plentifully. Huds. 

 On walls in Norwich, and other old towns. 



Perennial. July. 



Root rather woody, branching at tlie crown. Herbage glaucous, 

 destitute of pubescence. Stem branched in a paniclcd manner, 

 bearing several fragant, pale red flowers, solitary at the top of 

 each branch. Leaves linear, channelled ; finely toothed just 

 above the base ; entire and smooth towards the point. Scales 

 of the ralyvA, ribbed, pointed, not a quarter so long as the 

 tube; the 2 outermost narrowest. iV/. smooth j their outer 

 edge unequally and sh:u-j)ly toothed. Stam. sometimes very 



short and abortive, as represented in Engl. But. Tliis is the 



origin of our fine garden carnations. 



Mr. Hudson told mc his I), arenarius wits the common Pheasant's- 

 cye Pink, of which there are so many double varieties. If I 

 mistake not, tliis has always a few hairs on tht' disk of vnch petal, 

 near the claw, whicli indicates a specific ditference. it is not. 



