Dianthus. CARYOPHYLLACE^. 211 



Velez de Arciniega.) — Annuals with tough dichotomously branched stems, 

 sparse subulate foliage, and slender sessile or short-peduncled flowers. — Loefl. in 

 L. Spec. i. 332; Sibthorp, Fl. Grgec. t. 390, 391 ; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. vi. 

 t. 246; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 144. — A small Mediterranean genus of charac- 

 teristic habit. A single species, probably of recent introduction, has just been 

 noted in Central California. 



V. RfciDA, L. 1. c. Leaves uarrowly linear, attenuate, an inch or less in length : flowers sub- 

 solitary at the nodes, or in the forks of the stem, and more or less crowded toward the ends 

 of the branches: calyx about equally 15-ribbed, glandular-puberuleut, 6 to 8 lines long, 

 scarcely more than half line in diameter ; sharp teeth erect : petals small witli minute 

 bristle-formed appendages and small 2-toothed roseate blades: stamens 5 (to lOI). — 

 Reichenb. 1. c. — Dry sandy bluffs of the Tuolumne River, near La Grange, California, 

 Jepson, 1896; fl. July. (Adv. from Eu.) 



2. DIANTHUS, L. Pink, Carnation. (Aio? and av^o?, flower of 



Jove.) — Syst. Nat. ed. 1, & Gen. no. 364; DC. Prodr. i. 355 ; Reichenb. Ic. 



Fl. Germ. vi. t. 248-268; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 144. — Chiefly natives of S. 



Europe and N. Africa, deservedly popular in cultivation. Several species tend 



to escape, and have become more or less naturalized. One variety only is 



indigenous to this continent. 



* Indigenous in the extreme Northwest. 



D. alpinus, L. Low cespitose perennial with numerous ascending 1-flowered stems : 

 bracts 2 to 6, erect or somewhat spreading. — Spec. i. 412; Regel, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 

 xxxiv. pt. 2, 529. — (Eu., Siberia.) Very variable and according to Regel passing into 



Var. repens, Regel, 1. c 53I. Root single, vertical or descending : stems procumbent 

 but not repent, much branched from near the base ; branches simple, ascending, 3 to 6 

 inches in height, most often l-flowered : leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, 8 to 16 lines long, 

 glabrous, slightly fleshy : involucral scales a single pair, narrowly ovate, acuminate, nearly 

 equalling the calyx, the attenuate tips slightly spreading : calyx somewhat inflated, 6 lines 

 long : corolla purple, about 7 lines broad, glabrous ; petals with obovate erose-dentate 

 blades. — D. repens, Willd. Spec. ii. 681 ; Cham. & Schlecht. Linnasa, i. 37 ; Torr. & Gray, 

 Fl. i. 195 ; Seem. Bot. Herald, 27, t. 4. — Coast of N. and W. Alaska. (Siberia.) 



* * Species of the Old World, naturalized, or adventive and locally established. 



-»— Bractlet short, half the length of the calyx : flowers solitary. 



D. DELTofDES, L. (Maiden Pink.) Perennial: stems decumbent, ascending, 6 inches to a 

 foot in height, very leafy below : leaves short, narrowly oblong to lance-linear, a line wide, 

 the lower obtusish, the uppermost acute : calyx long, tubular : petals narrow, red, pink, or 

 white. — Spec. i. 411 ; Eng. Bot. t. 61 ; Wats. & Coulter in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 83— Occa- 

 sionally found escaped from gardens. New England, Martha's Vineyard, J\Jiss E. Watson, 

 and E. Windsor, Conn., from same collector, to Michigan (first reported in Bot. Gaz. vii. 

 109, as D.furcatus), L. H. Bailey. (Eu., Asia.) 

 -f— -1— Bractlets narrow, attenuate, equalling or exceeding the calyx : flowers clustered. 



D. ijarbAtus, L. 1. c. 409. (Sweet William.) A smooth perennial, 1 to 2 feet in height : 

 stems simple, bearing the flowers in dense cymose fascicles : leaves lanceolate, large for the 

 genus, 1| to 3 inches long, a fourth as wide, minutely roughened on the edges: bractlets 

 filiform from a lanceolate base : blades of petals triangular-obovate, toothed, red, purple or 

 white, often variegated in cultivation. — Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. vi. t. 248. — Long culti- 

 vated, and occasionally spontaneous about old gardens. (Eu.) 



D. Armeria, L. 1. c. 410. (Deptford Pink.) Annual, 1 to 2 feet high, covered with a fine 

 grayish pubescence : stems branching and bearing several 2-4-flowered fascicles : bracts 

 subulate, attenuate, densely pubescent : flowers scentless : calyx slender, tubular, 7 to 8 lines 

 long, the teeth very sharp : petals roseate, spotted with white ; blades elliptical, creuate- 



