48 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



SPECIES IIL-D lANTHUS CiESIUS. Linn. 



Plate CXCIII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VI. Caryoph. Tab. CCLXV. Fig. 5044. 



Rootstock perennial, with numerous rather slender slightly 

 woody divisions, producing ascending simple barren shoots and 

 erect imbranched flowering stems. Leaves of the barren shoots 

 strapshaped-linear, rather obtuse, those of the flowering stems 

 oblanceolate-linear, and blunt near the base of the stem, but linear- 

 acute in its upper portion ; all 3-nerved and with scabrous margins. 

 Flowers solitary, usually only 1 on the stem. Calyx glabrous, very 

 indistinctly ribbed, with 4 involucral bracts, which are roundish 

 obovate, abruptly acuminated into a very short acute point, which 

 reaches about one-fourth the distance to the apex of the broadly 

 triangular rather blunt calyx teeth. Petals with the laminae in- 

 versely deltoid, rather truncate and toothed at the apex, nearly 

 contiguous. 



On rocks. Very rare. On the abrupt limestone precipices of 

 Cheddar Rocks, Somersetshire. 



England. Perennial. Late Summer. 



Csespitose. Bootstock with long slender divisions, producing short 

 barren tufts with narrow leaves 1^ to 2 inches long ; flowering stems 

 with the leaves shorter. The upper leaves have the lateral nerves 

 at the margin, the lower ones a little w^ay from it. Involucral 

 bracts membranous, with the point herbaceous. Plowers generally 

 only 1 on each stem, more rarely 2, f inch long, 1 inch across, 

 with the calyx tinged with purplish red, cylindrical, thick in pro- 

 portion to its length. " Flowers delightfully fragrant, of a delicate 

 pale rose-colour " (Smith). Petals with the laminae irregularly 

 toothed at the apex, the teeth not extending beyond one-sixth or 

 one-eighth the length of the laminae, more or less hairy at the 

 base. Plant growing in tufts, glaucous and glabrous, with the 

 leaves rough at the margins. 



Cheddar Pink, Mountain Pink. 



French, (Eilkt Bleudlre. German, Graugriine Felice. 



This species is worthy of being cultivated on ornamental rock-work, and is very 

 easily propag-.ited. When introduced into the crevice ol a wall, it makes a beautiful 

 appearance with its pretty blossoms. 



