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The plants which have five petals in the flower, and a fingle capfule fucceeding, differ fo far, 
that fome have thefe petals regular in their form and difpofition, as Saint Fobn’s wort and hebnis 5 
others have them difpofed irregularly, as the violet. The form and fafhion of thefe flowers differs 
fo much that they may be fafely arranged under two claffes ; and it is fo obvious that they will be 
eafily known, and never miftaken: fome have alfo the leaves in all the fpecies in pairs, and fome 
alternately and irregularly ; this, {though lefs abfolute, yet is an obvious diftin@tion; and, in a 
ufeful fyftem, will very well ferve as a claffical character. 
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Natives of BRITAIN. 
Thofe of which one or more fpecies are naturally wild in this country. 
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CARKFOPHTILUS. 
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HE flower confifts of five petals, which are regularly difplayed, jagged at their broad ends, and 
very narrow at the bafe, where they adhere to the receptacle: the cup is long, hollow, divided 
into five fegments at the edge, and furrounded at the bafe with four little {cales, forming, as it 
were, a fmaller cup for it: the feed-veffel is oblong, cylindrick, and covered; and fplits in four 
parts at the top. 
Linnzus places this among the decandria digynia; the threads in each flower being ten, and the 
ftyle from the rudiment of the capfule divided into two parts. 
I have obferved before, that if the author had named his diftin@tions in this refpect, from the 
rudiment, rather than the ftyles rifing from it, his method would have been more natural: 
would then have ftood among the monogynia, to which, beyond a doubt, 
; the pink 
it naturally belongs; the 
capfule, which is the true effential female part, being fingle. Linneus calls this genus dianthus, 
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1. Maiden Pink: 
Caryophyllus virgineus. 
The root is fmall, white, and creeping. 
The ftalks are numerous, flender, weak, ani 
fpread upon the ground, : 
They are full of young fhoots, and thick co- 
vered with leaves: thofe ftalks which bear the 
flowers rife from thefe, and grow to five or fix 
inches high, or, in a favourable foil,. higher. 
The leaves are very narrow, confiderably long, 
and of a pale greyifh green: they are {mall at the 
bafe, and pointed at the end. 
The flowers are long, and of a bright red: 
they ftand fometimes fingly, one only at the top 
of the ftalk: but this is no certain mark; for 
fometimes there grow two or thrée together. 
The feed-veffel is oblong, and the feeds are 
fmall, rough, and black. i 
It is found wild in our northern counties, and 
in fome other places; and flowers in June. It 
varies extreamly in fize according to the accidents 
attending its growth; fo that fome have made 
out of it feveral {pecies. 
Authors call it Caryophyllus Virginens, 
BRITISH SPECIEs, 
2. Broad-leaved Maiden Pink, 
Caryophyllus foliis latioribus, 
The root is long, flender, white, and undi- 
vided. 
The ftalks are numerous, and lie in part upon 
the ground, but thofe which fupport the flowers 
‘tife to four or five inches in height. 
The leaves are numerous, broad, fhort, and 
of a pale green: thofe which ftand toward the 
upper part of the ftalks near the flowers are nar- 
rower than the others, and longer; but even 
thefe are broader than thofe of the preceding 
fpecies. 
The flowers are large, and of a beautiful red : 
one ftands at the top of each ftalk. 
The feed-veffel is long and roundih : the feeds 
are numerous and rough. é 
It is found on hills in our northern counties of 
England, and flowers in June. 
Ray calls it Amerie Species flore in fummo caule 
Jingulari. 
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