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Quidam Botanicorum sese verterunt ad Dianth. Caryophyllum Auctor, 
Diosanth. fragrantem Nob., in Graecia non provenientem ideoque pac 
tribus ignotum, ut apud eos non extit notitia de Agrostemmate Flore 
Jovis quidquid jactaverit Sestini. Fugimus quoque ab Agrostemmate co- 
ronario, ad quam fuerint qui attulerint Flox Theophrasti, nomine tan- 
tummodo indicatam. 
Dodonaeus, Fl. Coronr., ed. 2, p. 69, Ruellium non bene percepit, 
de Hist. strp. p. 140, lin. 21, qui recte Caryophyllum aromaticum Diosco- 
ridi, ut Galeno ignotum fuisse dixit. De Ruellio investigando minime 
sollicitus Targioni Ant. (Cenn. fior. var. piant. 1835, p. 290) Dodonaei 
et dejicendum erat; Botanicorum ineuria, vel inscitia, nimio plus pro- 
vectum fuit (ab anno 1737 ad 1880); usque donec ab insigni philo- 
sopho et philologo Saint-Lager denunciatum e damnatum est. ; 
Diosanthos Theophr., Flos Jovis latine conversum, ad Agrostemmatis 
speciem (Graeci). 
SECTIO 1.* ARMERIASTRUM Srrixa. 
Diosanthos proliferum (Lobeli) St. Lager. 
Lob. Ic. t. 449, f. 1, ejusd. Kruydb. 534. Dianthus jener Vill. Dauph., Koch p. 102, 
n. 1, Bert. 4, p. 549, n. 4, Gaud. 3, n. 980, De Notrs. Repertr. Fl. Ligust. n. 232, DC. Dub. p. 72, n. 1. 
La Peyr. Herbr., partim.; Tunica prolifera Scop., Fisch. Mey. Lallem. Ind. sem. hrt. Petropol. 1839; 
Kohlrauschia prolifera Kunth Ber. p 09, Mey. H - p. 88; Cylichnanthus prolifer Dulae. Engl. 
ol. v. 14, n. 956, Flor. Graec. Sibthrp. C. 4 p. 84, t. 394, Dietr. Fl. Bor. v. 12, n. 800, Flor, Dan. 
t. 221, Flor. Batv. v. 4, t. 318, Labr. Heg. lc. Helv. fasc. 9, t. 5, Reiehnb. Icon. C. 16, t. 247, f. 5009, 
Timb. 1. c., p. 5, n. 4, t. 1, Seg. Pl. Ver. p. 433, t. 7, f. 4. Tabern. Krtb. 2, p. 669, f. 3, Icon, t. 290, 
f. 1, J. Bauh. Hist. pl. 3, 1. 29, p. 335, f. 4. 
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« Squamae interiores involucri ; nec mon exteriores calycis, numero 
subinde variant. » Sm. Fl. Gr. c. Idem jam observaverat Haller Helv : 
n. 901, confirmaruntque dein alii, denique Koch Flora 1830, p. 605, 
n. 42, et hoc mihi quoque abunde patuit. Comparatio de horum florum 
physionomia quodammodo simile illae nonnullarum | Armeriarum , 6€- 
nunciata a Villar, Fl. Daunh. 4, p. 596, n. 6, a Bertoloni l. c., p- 551 
sub D. velutino, indicata fuit a Lobelio ipso, stirpem nostram Armerwm 
ndo. 
Ac Dianthi speciem, supra Cauteret observatam , quaedam ad n 
tavit Spruce, quae opportune hue referri posse existimavi: « This differs 
from D. prolifer gathered. at St. Sever, in the membranous bases of the 
leaves being connate for a distance equalling about twice their breadth, 
and in the strongly tuberculate seeds: the closely allied D. velutinus Guss. 
(secund. exempl. in Herbr. 00k.) has the seeds muriculata (beset with 
sharp pointed ewcrescences),. the leaves smooth at the edges yc 
stems more or less downy. The seeds of D. prolifer are always somewhat 
tuberculate, and. are therefore incorrectly described by Koch as smooth. » 
