

DECANDRTA. DIGYNIA. Dianthus. 401 



DIANTHUS. Cal cylindrical, of 1 leaf, with from 



2 to 8 scales at the base : petals 5, with claws: 

 caps, cylindrical, 1 -celled. 



* 



(1) Stem herbaceous, many flowered ; flowers incorporated. 



D. Flowers in bundles : scales of the calyx egg-awl-shaped, barba'tus. 



as long as the tube : leaves spear-shaped. 



Renealm. AJ-Clus. I. 2S7. 1-Dod. 176. 2-Ger. em. 598, 4- 

 Ger. 479. A-S<wert. ii. 18. S and 9. 



Sweet Williams. [On a limestone wall at King's Weston 

 near Bristol. Dr. Stokes. Common in gardens.] P. June. 



D. Flowers in bundles : scales of the calyx spear-shaped, Arme'ria* 



2—Ger. em. 



woolly, as long as the tube. 



Fl. dan 23(^7 



59±* U-H. ox. v. 25. 20-iV/. 56*. 5-Seguier. i. 7* 4- 

 Matth. 579. 



Petals taper pointed, with 1 or 2 teeth. Linn. red. 



Deptford Pink. Gravelly meadows and pastures. Charlton 

 Wood, and elsewhere in Kent. Near Croydon. [Norfolk, fre- 

 quent. Mr. Woodward. Near Ketley, Shropshire, in gravel, 

 and Clarkton Leap, Wore, in marie. Stokes. About Perth- 

 shore and Eckington. Worcestersh. Nash.] A.July. 



D. Flowers in heads : scales of the calyx egg-shaped, blunt, pro'lifer 



awnless, taller than the tube. 



Fl. dan. Q.2\-Knipb. J-Seguier. i. 7. 1-J. B. iiL 335. 1- 

 Lob. ic. i. 450. 1-G*r. em. 599* 5-Park. 1338.1-#. ox. 

 v. 25. 21. 



Stem usually simple, upright, slender. Flonvers nearly con- 

 cealed by the scales of the calyx, opening one at a time for a con- 

 siderable time in succession. Mr. Woodward. Blossoms red* 

 sometimes white. They expand about 8 in the morning, and 

 close about 1 in the afternoon. 



Cb tiding Sweet Williams. Cbilding Pinks. Proliferous Pink* 

 Sandy meadows and pastures. Selsey Island, Sussex. [Near 

 Norwich. Mr, Woodward. In a marie pit Landridge Hill ; 

 Hanley Castle, Worcestershire. Mr. Ballard.] A. July. 



(2) Stem herbaceous, many flowered ; flowers solitary. 

 D. Scales of the calyx almost rhomboidal, very short: pe-Caryophy 



tals irregularly toothed. (See Linn, tr. ii. 299-) 

 Voi, II, D 





