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cloves that it was used as a substitute for 

 them in the seasoning of wines, and it soon 

 came to be called caryophyllus. The name 

 was not lost to the clove, however, for the 

 clove-tree is now known to botanists as the 

 aromatic caryophyllus (Caryophyllus aro- 

 matica). Other plants closely related to 

 the carnation began, in time, to be associated 

 with the name caryophyllus, and when the 

 pink-like plants were arranged into one 

 group, that group was designated the Caryo- 

 phyllaceae. The true pinks themselves were 

 dedicated to Jupiter, hence the genus was 

 called Dianthus, " Jupiter's flowers." Lin- 

 naeus indicated the history of the carnation 

 by naming it Dianthus Caryophyllus. But 

 the name caryophyllus has not stopped here. 

 In common writing it became corrupted, and 

 in mediaeval Latin it was called garoffolum 

 or gariofilum. The French changed it into 

 giroflee^ from which were made the Old 

 English words gyllofer and gilofre^ each 

 with a long o. The word subsequently de- 

 veloped into gilUflower. Thus far these 

 names appear to have been applied to our 

 carnation pink, but after a time a new diffi- 

 culty arose. Certain members of the mus- 

 tard family, in the double forms of their 



