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PLATE CCCCLXXXII. 
Alpine Pink. 
ui CLASS VI. ORDER IL. 
DECANDRIA DIGYNIA. Ten Chives. Two Pointals, + 
3 GENERIC CHARACTER. 
ge Saag em cylindricum, tubulosum, EmpaLemenr cylindrical, tubular, lined, re- 
tum, persistens; os 5-dentatum, basi outh is 5- toothed, sur- 
pica quatuor m, Oe inter- rounded “by four squamz at the base, or 
um 
Corotta. Dogan lo ongitudine ca- 
lycis, angusti, receptaculo inserti: limbus 
extus te laminis late obtusis, crenatis. 
STAMINA, 
Wilamen ta decem, subulata, longi- 
tudine 
calycis: antherz ovales, oblonge, 
m 
en ovale. Styli duo, su- 
bulati, cess a ores. Stigmata re- 
curvata, acum 
Pericarpium, Cini a cylindrica, recta, uni- 
locularis, quadrilateralis, apice dehiscens, 
Semina plurima, compressa, subrotunda, a re- 
ceptaculo liberata, 
SPECIFIC 
Dianraus alpinus. Frutex pygmzus, elegans, 
foliis appositi, alternis, linearibus, curva- 
tis, bus: floribus er atiat rubris, 
in medio circulo albo. 
sometimes two opposite ones beneath. 
Biossom 5 iin $: the a the length of the 
calyx ow, and inserted into the recep- 
Giche: Secees Sigs withant, broadly obtuse, 
and notched. 
Cuives. Ten threads, awl-shaped, the st 4 
of the c ess fh Le oval, oblong, compressed 
. 
eit i 
_ Pointat. = ed bud oval. Shafts wali ht 
pie abs and longer than the chives, Sum 
mit recurved, and pointed. 
bin csi Capsule tindrical straight, o 
loculament, four-sided, and splitting at the 
end, 
_Sgeps many, compressed, nearly round, and 
freed from the receptacle, 
CHARACTER. 
Arrive pink. An elegant dwarf shrub, with 
opposite alternate sir linear, curved, and 
and red, a 
short. Flowers termin 
small circle of white in te centre. 
ite 
REFERENCE 
Seed-bud, c 
2 a gM sal ltl 
TO THE PLATE. 
The empalement. 
A petal shown from the a — 
he seed-bud cut transversely, 
ea ee EN eee 
Tue Dianthus alpinus is a very scarce & plant, little known, 
ng a place in every one 
ts the entire plant, from the euliestion of 
— its beauty sian it deservin 
Our figure represe 
. fen seed whieh he setts 
Austriaca of Sobiatis: from 
diminutive stature, 
tmany, 
a Native specim 
and rarely to be met with in any collection, 
and its size would never exclude it from 
Isaac Swainson, esq. who raised it 
= spend coloured representation of it extant 1 is in 
and of no greater magnitude than our figure Fe- 
particularly heresies of the true Alpine : pink, 
