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the margins ciliated with short spinous points. Flowers rather 

 smaller, generally paler and more purple, with the laminae of tlie 

 petals hairy at the hase, and at the apex cut into long slender 

 tapering strips reaching one-half or one-third the distance to the 

 base ; the plant is also much more densely caespitose in its mode of 

 growth. 



Common Pink. 



French, (EiUel Migncvrdise. 



This species is the origin of all the plants commonly cultivated in gardens under 

 the name of Pheasant' s-eye Pinks, White Pinks, &c. 



Sub-Genus II.— KOHLRAUSCHIA. Kunth. 



Calyx sub-cylindrical, somewhat pentagonal at the apex, nerved 

 at intervals, each sepal liaA'ing 3 down its centre, the spaces between 

 the nerves being membranous. Involucral bracts 1 to each flower 

 (except the central flower, which has none), longer than the calyx, 

 and completely enveloping it. Mowers in a head closely wrapped 

 in large membranous bracts. Petals suddenly contracted into 

 narrow claws parallel to each other. 



SPECIES VI.— D I ANTHUS PROLIPER. Linn. 



Plate CXCVI. 



Kohlrauschia prolifera, Kunth. Eddi. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VI. Tab. CCXLVII. 

 Fig. 5009. 



No perennial rootstock or barren leafy shoots. Stems 1 or more 

 from the crown of the root, simple or slightly branched above, 

 each fork terminating in a small ovate-fusiform head of flowers 

 surrounded by a general involucre of sub-membranous bracts, of 

 which the inner obtuse ones are t\A'ice as long as the exterior mucro- 

 nate pair. Involucral bract of each of the separate flowers as long 

 as the calyx, oval-obtuse. Calyx glabrous, with 3 rather faint ribs 

 in the centre of each sepal, which terminates in a rounded mem- 

 branous tooth. Petals with the laminse obovate-emarginate, not 

 toothed, contiguous. Seeds shagreened, but without acute tubercles. 

 Plant glabrous. 



In gravelly and sandy places. Very rare. Xear Ryde, in the 

 Isle of Wight ; but the station is said to be now destroyed by 

 building. It has also occurred near Windsor and Norwich, and 

 in Sussex. Common in the South-west of Jersey. 



England. Annual. Summer and Autiimn. 



U. Ot- ILL. Lid. 



