DECANDRIA-DIGYNIA. Diantlms. 287 



Norwich. Mr. Humphrey. In a marl pit at Landridge hill, 

 Hanley castle, Worcestershire j Mr. Ballard. Withering. 



Annual. Juhj. 



Root small, tapering. Herb grass-green, smooth, except the edges 

 and ribs of the short, linear, acute leaves, which are rough with 

 minute sharp teeth. Stem from 3 to 18 inches higli, round, 

 rushy, smooth, more or less branched. Fl. scentless, in solitary, 

 terminal, stalked heads, encompassed with 4 broad, membranous, 

 dry, concave, obtuse scales, as long as the calyx, or longer ; be- 

 sides 2 narrow ones to eachfower. Pet. rose-coloured, inversely 

 heart-shaped, small, smooth. /3 is a starved variety, bearing- 

 solitary, not aggregate, powers. 



** Flowers solitary, several 07i the same stem. 



3. D. Caryophyllus. Clove Pink, or Carnation. 



Flowers solitary. Scales of the calyx almost rhomboid, very 

 short. Petals notched, beardless. 



D. Caryophyllus. Unn. Sp. PI. 587. ffilld. v. 2. 674. Sm. Tr. of 

 Linn.. Sac. v. 2. 299. Fl. Br. 46 1 . Engl. Bot. v.3.t.2 14. Ehrh. 

 PL Off. 144. 



Caryophyllus simplex, flore minore, pallide rubente. Bauh. Pin. 

 208. RaiiStjn. 33G. 



C. sylvestris tertius, flore pallidq suav^ rubente. Lob. Ic. 443./. 



C. sylvestris simplex. Ger. Em. 59 1 ./. 



Caryophylli flores svlvestres. Camer. Epil. 351. f. 



Tunica n. 896. Hall. Hist. t>. 1 . 39 1 . 



Wall Pink. Pet. H. Brit. t. 56./. 1. 



/3. Dianthus arenarius. Huds. 185, excluding the syn. 



On'bld ruinous walls. 



On Rochester, Deal, Sandown, and other castles, plentifully. Huds. 

 On walls in Norwich, and other old towns. 



Perennial. July. 



Root rather woody, brandling at the crown. Herbage glaucous, 

 destitute of pubescence. Stein branched in a panicled manner, 

 bearing several fragant, pale red Jlowers, solitary at the top of 

 each branch. Leaves linear, channelled ; finely toothed just 

 above the base ; entire and smooth towards the point. Scales 

 of the calyx 4, ribbed, pointed, not a quarter so long as the 

 tube ; the 2 outermost narrowest. Pet. smooth ; their outer 

 edge unequally and sharply toothed. Stam. sometimes very 



short and abortive, as represented in Engl. Bot. This is the 



origin of our fine garden carnations. 



Mr. Hudson told me his D. arenarius was the common Pheasant's- 

 eye Pink, of which there are so many double varieties. If I 

 mistake not, this has always a few hairs on the disk of each -petal, 

 near the claw, which indicates a specific difference. It is not. 



