JXianthus. CAin'orilYLLACK.K. 211 



Velez tie Aroiiiie<,';i.) — Animals with toiii,'li (lkli(.t(.iiiun>Iy brainlifd hU-m»«, 

 sparse subulate I'uliagc, and skMider sessile or sliort-iH-duiicl.il lluwers. — LttW. in 

 L. Spec. i. ^32; Sibtliorp, Fl. Gra-c. t. .'VJO, .'JIU ; Keichcnb. le. FI. Cierm. vi. 

 t. 24G; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 144. — A small Mediterranean g.-nus of charac- 

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

 noted in Central California. 



V. ufoinA, L. 1. c. Leaves iiiirrnwly linear, atteiinalc, an iiuli or less in lenf,'ili : fiowont mh- 

 solitary at the uodcs, ur in tlie forks ol" the stem, ;)nil niort- or less crowded toward the endM 

 of the briinehes: eah x about e<|iially 15-rihhed, glanilular-piii.eriilent, C to 8 lines lonp, 

 scarcely more than half line in diameter; sharp teeth erect: jietals small with minute 



bristle-formed appendages and small atoothed roseate idades : stamens :i (to 10 7). 



Keicheub. I.e.— Dry sandy bluffs of the Tuolumne Kiver, near La (;range, California, 

 Jepsoii, IJS'JG; fl. July. (Adv. from Eu.) 



2. DIANTHUS, L. Pink, Caunation. (At.'x; and .Ii^o?, How.r of 



Jove.) — Syst. Nat. ed. 1, & Gen. no. 364; DC. Prodr. i. 'S'j') ; Reidienb. Ic. 



Fl. Germ. vi. t. 248-208; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 144. — Chiefly nativ.s of S. 



P^urope and N. Africa, deservedly popular in cultivation. Several species tend 



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



indigenous to this continent. 



* Indigenous in the extreme Northwest. 



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

 bracts 2 to 6, erect or somewhat spreading. — Spec. i. 412; Kegel. Bull. Sx-. Nat. .Mosc. 

 xxxiv, pt. 2, 52'.». — (Eu., Liberia.) Very variable and according to Hegel passing into 



Var. repens, Hi:(;ei., 1. c 531. Hoot single, vertical ordiscending : stems pr'Mumbent 

 but not repent, much branched from near the ba.se; 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 ov.ate. acuminate, nearly 

 equalling the calyx, the attenuate tips .slightly spreading: calyx .somewhat intlateil, f. lines 

 long: corolla ])urple. about 7 lines broad, glabntns ; jietals with obovate erose-<lent;ite 

 blades. — D. repi'tis, Willd. Spec. ii. 681 ; Cham. & Schlecht. Linna-a, i. 37 ; Torr. & Clniy, 

 Fl. i. 195 ; Seem. Bot. IleraM, 27, t. 4. —Coast of \. and W. Aliiska. (.Siberia.) 



* * Species of the ( »ld World, naturalized, or adveutive and locally established. 

 ■i— Bractlet short, half the length of the calyx : flowers solitary. 



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

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

 the lower obtusisli, the uppermost acute : calyx long, tubular : }>etals narrow, red. jiink, or 

 white. — Spec. i. 411 ; Eng. Bot. t. 61 ; W.ats. & Coulter in (iray, Man. ed. fi, 8.} — Urra- 

 sionally found escaped from gardens. New England. Martha's \ineyard. Miss A". Wnison, 

 and E. Windsor, Conn., from same collector, to Michigan (flrst rejiorted in Bot. (Jaz. vii. 

 109, as D.fiircafiis), L. II. Bnllnj. (Eu., Asia.) 

 -t— •<— Bractlets narrow, attenuate, eipialling or exceeding the calyx : flowers clustered. 



D. hahkAtis, L. 1. e. 409. (Swkkt William.) A smooth ]>erennial. 1 to a feet in height: 

 stems simjile, bearing the flowers in dense cymose fascicles: leaves lanceolate, larg<' for the 

 genus. H to 3 inches long, a fourth as wide, minutely ri>ughened on the edgea: bnutletH 

 filiform from a lanceolate b.ose : lda<les of petals triangular-olxivate, toothed, n-tl, purple or 

 white, often variegated in cultivation. — Heichenb. Ic. Kl. (JernL vi. t. 248. — L«»ng culti- 

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



D. AuMEKiA, L. 1. c. 410. (1)ki'TKoki> I'isk.) Annual, I to 2 feet high, covered with n fine 

 grayish pubescence: stems branching and bearing .'several 2-4-flowered f.-j.-w ides : bmclii 

 subnl.ite, atteniuate, densely pubescent : flowers scentless : calyx slemler. tuhu':«r. 7 to s linen 

 long, the tcetli very sharp: petals roseate, s]>otted with while; blades elUplical, crenaUv 



