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TRIBE III. POLYCAR'PE.ffi. Sepals free. Disk small. Petals small. 

 Stamens 5 or fewer. Styles combined at base 11*. Polycarpon. 



1. DIAN'THUS. PINK and CARNATION. 



Tufted herbs, often shrubby at the base. Learns narrow, grass-like. 

 Flowers solitary, panicled, or fascicled. Calyx tubular, 5-toothed, striate, 

 with imbricating bracteoles at the base. Petals 5, entire or cut, claw 

 long. Stamens 10. Disk elongated. Ovary 1-celled ; styles 2. Capsule 

 4-valved at the top. Seeds discoid, imbricate upon the columnar pla- 

 centa ; embryo straight. DISTRIB. Europe, temp. Asia, N.W.America, 

 N. and S. Africa; species about 70. ETYM. Aids and &v6os, flower of. 

 Jupiter. 



* Flowers in dense fascicles. 



1. D. Arme'ria, L. ; bracts lanceolate downy as long as the calyx, 

 tips, subulate. Deptford Pink. 



Fields and dry banks from Cumberland to Devon and Kent ; a doubtful native, 

 Watson; fl. July- Aug. Annual. Stems 1-2 ft., few, strict, erect. Leaves 

 1-2 in., linear, lower obtuse, upper acute. Fascicles of flowers dichotomous. 

 Cali/x-tube 2-3 in. cylindric, many-nerved. Ffowers % in. diam. Petals distant, 

 narrow, red with dark dots, toothed. DISTRIB. Europe, W. Asia ; introd. in 

 the U. States. 



2. D. pro'lifer, L. ; fascicles of flowers capitate, bracts ovate mem- 

 branous as long as the calyx-tube, inner obtuse. 



Gravelly pastures S. and E. of England, rare, Windsor, Norwich, formerly 

 near Ryde, Jersey; a doubtful native, Watson; fl. June-Oct. Annual. 

 Stems few, 6-18 in., sometimes branched above. Leaves short, linear-lan- 

 ceolate, margins scabrid. Heads $ in., many-flowered, enclosed in dry 

 brown bracts. Flowers - in. diam. , opening one by one. Calyx faintly 

 ribbed. Petals contiguous, purplish-red, obovate, emarginate. Capsule 

 ovoid, rupturing the calyx. DISTRIB. Europe, W. Asia ; introd. in the 

 U. States 



** Flowers solitary or loosely cymose. 



3. D. deltoi des, L. ; leaves narrow-lanceolate downy and subscabrous, 

 lower obtuse, flower solitary, bracts ovate acuminate half as long as the 

 calyx-tube, petals toothed. Maiden Pink. 



Fields and banks, dry soil, from Moray and Argyle southwards ; absent from 

 Ireland ; fl. June-Sept. Perennial, much branched ; branches slender, 1 ft. 

 Leaves of barren shoots ligulate. Flowers f in. diam., rarely 2 together, 

 inodorous. Calyx glabrous, strongly ribbed. Petals distant, obovate, rosy, 

 spotted with white. Capsule cylindric. DISTRIB. Europe. 



VAR. 1, deltoi'des proper; faintly glaucous, bracts generally 2, flowers rosy. 

 VAR. 2, glau'ats, L. (sp.) ; very glaucous, bracts usually 4, flowers white. 

 King's Park, Edinburgh. 



4. D. ere sius, Sm. ; leaves scabrous at the margin, flowers usually 

 solitary, bracts orbicular mucronate 4 times shorter than the calyx-tube, 

 petals jagged and bearded. Cheddar Pink. 



Limestone rocks, Cheddar ; fl. June-July. Perennial, glaucous. Rootstock 



woody, branched. Stems 4-10 in., many. Leaves of barren shoots linear, 



obtuse, upper -ones of the flowering stems acute. Bracts membranous. 



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