616 DIANTHUS. [class X. ORDER II. 



Habitat. — Rocky mountains; very rare. a,. Highlands of Scotland, 

 (?)— -ikfr. J. Don. (3. On Mountains above Ambleside, Westmore- 

 land. — Hudson, Mr. D. Don. 



Perennial ; flowering in May. 



This species is common on the mountains of Switzerland, Savoy, 

 and Italy, and we have specimens from those of Greece, which are 

 much more pubescent than any other specimen that we have seen, but 

 are not otherwise different. It grows in dense tufted patches, the 

 leaves very much crowded on the stem in an imbricated manner. 



GENUS IX. DIANTHUS.— Linn. Pink. 



Nat. Ord. CARY0PHYL'LE.3i:. Juss. 



Gen. Char. Calyx tubular, five toothed, with from two to four oppo- 

 site imbricated scales at the base. Petals five, contracted at the 

 mouth into a narrow claw. Stamens ten. Styles two. Capsule 

 of one cell, four valved at the apex. Seeds peltate, compressed on 

 one side, concave on the other. — Name from Ajoj, divine or 

 heavenly ; and avSoj, a flower ; so named on account of the pre- 

 eminent beauty and fragrance of the flowers. 

 Sect. 1. Armeriastrum. Ser. De Cand. Prod. p. 1, p. 355. 

 Flowers crowded into a head, or corymbose^ sessile, or pedunculated, 

 * Scales of the calyx lanceolate, actite ; calyx striated, villous. 

 1. D, Arme'ria, Linn. (Fig, 701.) Deptford Pink. Flowers fas- 

 ciculated ; scales of the calyx and bractea lanceolate, subulate, 

 herbaceous, downj', as long as the downy striated tube of the calyx; 

 leaves linear, awl-shaped, ribbed, and downy. 



English Botany, t. 317.— English Flora, vol. ii. p. 286.— Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 203. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 44. 



Root small, tapering, branched. Stem erect, from one to two feet 

 high, round, downy, branched above, leafy, stiff, and rigid. Leaves 

 linear, awl-shaped, opposite, united at the base with membranous edges 

 into a short tube, rough and downy, with a stout mid-rib, and one or 

 two ribs on each side, erect, with an obtuse point, the lower leaves 

 broader and spreading. Inflorescence terminal fasciculated clusters, 

 mostly of numerous crowded small pink and white flowers. Pedicles 

 short, bractea long, slender, awl-shaped, downy and ribbed, as well as 

 the scales at the base of the calyx, which are taper pointed, as long as 

 the calyx, rarely shorter. Calyx nearly an inch long, the tube nume- 

 rously striated and downy, the limb of five nearly erect almost awl- 

 shaped teeth. Petals five, with a long narrow claw, the limb ovate, 

 more or less toothed on the margin, rose colour, with numerous white 

 dots scattered over them, scentless, seldom more than one or two ex- 

 panded in the same cluster at one lime. Stamens with linear flla- 

 ments, five longer than the others, all united with the petals into a ring 



