46 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



short woolly liairs, numerous close prominent ribs, and terminated 

 by 5 narrowly-lanceolate acute teeth. Involucral scales ribbed like 

 the calyx, rather suddenly narrowed into long awn-like points, 

 which usually equal or even exceed the calyx. Tlowers J inch 

 long, I inch across, with the laminte of the petals narrow, with 

 shallow teeth at the apex, not contiguous, bright red with pale 

 dots, and usually a darker transverse line at the base, scentless. 

 Styles stigmatiferous nearly to the base. Capsule sub-cylindrical, 

 opening by 5 short teeth, containing numerous small seeds which, 

 are roundish in outline witli a projecting point at one side, convex 

 above, concave beneath, where there is a prominent transverse 

 line in the middle of which is the hilum by which they are attached 

 to the seedstalk ; the whole of the surface covered with raised points. 

 Plant dark green, not glaucou^s, with short hairs on the leaves and 

 upper part of the stem, and sometimes also on the lower part. 

 Deptford Fink. 



French, CEillet Velu. German, liauhe Nelke. 



This pretty little flower reminds us of the " Sweet William " which decks our 

 gardens, and perfumes the air with its fragrance. 



SPECIES II.— D I AN THUS DELTOIDES. Linn. 



Plate CXCII. 



Rdch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VI. Caryoph. Tab. CCLXIII. Fig. 5040. 



E/Ootstock perennial, with numerous slender scarcely woody divi- 

 sions, producing procumbent nearly simple often elongated barren 

 shoots, and erect or ascending flowering stems slightly dichotomously 

 branched in the vipper part, each fork terminating in a single flower, 

 or more rarely two or three together. Leaves of the barren shoots 

 oblanceolate-strapshaped, rather blunt, those of the flowering stems 

 lanceolate-strapshaped, the upper ones very acute. Calyx glabrous, 

 rather strongly ribbed with 2 (rarely 4) involucral bracts, which 

 are broadly-oval, abruptly acuminated into a triangular acute point, 

 which reaches about half the distance to the apex of the triangular 

 acute calyx teeth. Petals with the laminae wedgeshaped-obovate, 

 rounded and toothed at the apex, not contiguous. 



Var. a, genuina. 

 Involucral scales generally 2. Plovvers purplish rose-colour. 

 Plant slightly glaucous. 



Var. ^, glaucus. 



Uiauthus glaucus, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 5S8. 



Involucral scales generally 4. Flowers white. Plant decidedly 

 gla ucous. 



