TRE DEPTFQBD FINK. 177 



Hildebrandtia prototypus Nardo, f. rosea Kiitz. Kilchattan Bay. 

 Rothesay, King. Gare Loch and Loch Goil, Pearcey. 



Melobesia corticiformis Kiitz. Cumbrae. Between Saltcoats and 

 Fairlie, Hohnes. 



M.farinosa Lamx. Cumbrae and Lamlash. 



M. Laminarice Crn. Fintry and Karnes Bays, Cumbrae. Between 

 Saltcoats and Fairlie, Holmes. 



M. Coralline Crn. Karnes and Fintry Bays, Between Salt- 

 coats and Fairlie, Hohnes. 



Lithophyllum Lenormandi Rosan. Fintry and Bell Bays, Cum- 

 brae. Rothesay, King. Loch Goil, Pearcey. 



* Lithotha mnion corallioides Crn. Dredged from 6-10 fathoms off 

 the Tan Buoy, Cumbrae, and in the Kyles of Bute. 



*L. corallioides Crn. f. subsimplex, nov. var. Off the Tan Buoy, 

 Cumbrae, in 8-10 fathom-water. A very curious variety, charac- 

 terised by the almost entire absence of lateral branches, the whole 

 frond being nearly simple, and either straight or angularly bent. 



*L. colliculosum Foslie. Off Tan Buoy, Kyles of Bute, Gare Loch, 

 in 8-10 fathom-water. 



THE DEPTFORD PINK. 



By James Britten, F.L.S. 



The Deptford Pink may be included among the manufactured 

 names which have come into popular use. It is found in our 

 principal text-books, such as Babington's Manual, Bentham's Hand- 

 book, and the Students 1 Flora, and probably all British botanists 

 would concur with these authors in assigning it to Dianthus 



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Armena. The English name dates from 1633, when Johnson, in 

 his edition of Gerard (p. 594), gave an admirable figure of the 

 plant (from Lobel's Icones, i. 440), which he named " J Caryophyllns 

 pratensis, Deptford Pinke." 



It is, however, clear that this is not the plant which Gerard 

 had in view when he described the pink abundant in his day near 



Deptford. When compiling our Dictionary of English Plant-names, 



the Deptford Pink came under review, and we then pointed out 

 (p. 148) that Gerard's description, which Johnson's figure was 

 intended to illustrate, applied rather to D. deltoides. In collating 

 Mr. W. A. Clarke's notes on our ■ First Records/ the matter has 

 again been brought under my notice, and I think it may be well to 

 make it clear. 



I will first give Gerard's description of the pink which he knew 

 as growing at Deptford : it runs as follows : — 



" There is a Wilde creeping Pinke, which groweth in our 

 pastures neere about London, and other places, but especially in 

 the great field next to Detford, by the path side as you go from 

 Redriffe to Greenewich, which hath many small tender leaves, 

 shorter than any of the other wilde Pinkes ; set upon little tender 

 stalks, which lie flat upon the ground, taking holde of the same in 



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