CAKYOPHYLLACE^. 49 



SPECIES IV.-DI AN THUS CARYOPH YLLUS. Linn, 



Plate CXCIV. 



Reidu Ic Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VI. Caryoph. Tab. CCLXVIII. Fig. 50.31. 



Rootstock perennial, branched, woody, producing barren shoots 

 and ascending flowering stems. Leaves of the barren shoots and 

 base of the stem elongate-linear, those of the flowering stems 

 shorter ; all acute, 1-nerved, with smooth margins. Flowers soli- 

 tary, in a lax irregular paniculate cyme. Calyx glabrous, obsoletely 

 ribbed, with 4 involucral bracts, which are sub-rhomboidal, abruptly 

 acuminated into a very short cuspidate point which reaches about 

 one-fourth the distance to the apex of the triangular rather acute 

 calyx teeth. Petals with the laminae deltoid-roundish, truncate 

 and toothed at the apex, contiguous. 



On old castles and the adjacent rocks. Not indigenous, but 

 occurs on Rochester Castle in Kent, and probably on other similar 

 buildings. 



[England.] Perennial. Late Summer. 



Rootstock decidedly woody, and in old plants often \ inch thick, 

 producing stems decumbent at the base, then ascending, more or less 

 l3ent at each point, 1 to 2 feet high. Leaves ascending, recurved, 

 grass-like, the lower ones (or those of the barren shoots) 4 to 6 inches 

 long. Flowers IJ inch long, \\ inch across, very fragrant. Calyx 

 cylindrical, contracted at the mouth, | inch in diameter, very closely 

 and indistinctly rilibed at the base, rather more distinctly so at the 

 apex (as in D. cJEsius), green. Involucral scales membranous, with 

 the point herbaceous. Petals bright rose-colour, irregularly toothed 

 at the apex, the teeth not extending one-fourth the length of the 

 lamina, and often not above one-eighth. Capsule ovoid. Seeds 

 shagreened, depressed-obovate, nearly flat. Plant quite glabrous 

 and glaucous, growing in loose straggling tufts. 



This plant has the flowers dimorphous, some having the stamens 

 extremely short, and others on the same individual as long as or 

 longer than the claws of the petals. The dimorphism also occurs 

 in D. plumarius, where it is also a monoecious dimorphism; in 

 D. barbatus it is a dioecious dimorphism ; in D. deltoides and 

 Armeria the flowers appear to be all alike ; but beyond these I 

 have had no opportunity of observing the flowers of the Pinks in a 

 living state. 



Clove Fink, Wild Carnation. 



French, (Eillet Girojlee. 



From tbis species are derived all the beautiful varieties of our garden Carnations 

 and Picotees. The Carnation seems to have been unknown to the ancients, at least in 

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