60 CAEYOPHYLLACE^. [Dianthus. 



1. D. Armeria, L. Deptford Pink. "Flowers clustered fas- 

 cicled, scales of the calyx lanceolate subulate herbaceous downy 

 as long as the tuhe."— Br. Fl. p. 55. E. B. t. 317. 



Ill dry gravelly or sandy pastures, along hedges and borders of fields here and 

 there, but very sparingly, i^/. July, August. 0. 



E. Med. — A specimen found by the Rev. G. E. Smith in a field near Binslead, 

 1839 !!! Near the Grove by Brading, \_the latel Lady Brenton. 



A species of " wild pink " grows, I am told, between the village of Sandrock 

 and the sea, which is probably either this species or D. deltoides. 



Root tapering, brownish or yellowish, flexuose, branched or nearly simple. 

 Slem solitary or two or three, erect, from 1 to 3 feet in height, firm, rigid, terete, 

 shining and glabrous below, downy above with short spreading hairs, oppositely 

 or alternately and as it were dichotomously branched, the branches divaricate, 

 straight and wiry. Leeves opposite, radical ones crowded or caespitose ; cauline 

 leaves nearly erect, linear, acute, connate, rather distant, the lower glabrous or 

 nearly so, the rest doivny and slightly scabrous, prominently 3-, 5-, or 7-ribbed 

 beneath, with pale membranous niarj,'ins at their base. Flowers aggregate in 

 termiual heads or clusters, mostly 2 or 3 together, though appearing but as one, 

 scarcely ^ an inch in diameter. Calyx tubular, slightly inflated or ventricose, 

 about 7 lines in length, with numerous close dark-green striae, the summit in 5 

 erect, very acuminate, unequal teeth or segments, mostly with purplish margins, 

 and hairy like the whole upper portion of the calyx, of which they occupy nearly 

 ■^ of the entire length. Petals spreading, very small, the limb oblong-obovate, 

 bright rose-colour spotted with white, and having a curved and dentate crimson 

 line near the beginning of the very long, linear, greenish claw, down the centre of 

 which run two prominent ridges with a sharp groove or furrow between them, and 

 at the tip of the claw are a very few white slender hairs ; the limb of the petal 

 entire except at the summit, which is dentate-subtrifid ; the 2 lateral and basal 

 teeth very distinct, triangular, pointing forwards, the intermediate and terminal 

 portion or lobe oblong, emargiiiate, unequally dentate and erose. Stamens une- 

 qual, shorter than the calyx, glabrous, the alternate and outer with a crenate 

 expansion of their bases ; anthers elliptical-oblong, violet-coloured, erect ; pollen 

 blue, globular. Styles white, semicylindrical, tapering, glanduloso-pubescent on 

 the inner side, about as long as the calyx, a little spreading at the summits, their 

 bases contiguous. Germen oblongo-cylindrical, smooth and glabrous. Seeds dull 

 black, shagreened, obovate, convex on the back, concave on their inner face, which 

 is divided lengthways by a ridge having a tubercle-like prominence in its centre, 

 and ending in a short obtuse beak. 



The Deptford Pink is quite naturalized in some of the northern parts of the 

 United States. I have gathered fine and abundant specimens in dry stony fields 

 in the vicinity of Boston, Mass. 



2. D. 2:)rolifer,'L. Prolife^'ous Pink. " Flowers clustered capi- 

 tate, scales of the calyx ovate membranous about the length of 

 the tube, outer ones, acute inner ones blunt, leaves rough at the 

 edge."— j5r. Fl. p. 56. E. B. t. 956. 



In dry sandy or gravelly pastures ; very rare. i^^. June — September. Q. 



E. TlfipcZ.— Amongst low bushes on the Dover, Eyde, Charles Cardale Babington 

 and W. Christy, Esqs. Hi Now very scarce in this, the only known station in the 

 island.* 



Herb very attenuate, 3—18 inches high. Root slender, whitish, nearly simple. 

 Stem simple or branched (in gardens very much so) from the base, a little pubes- 

 cent, and like the leaves somewhat glaucous, though less so than in most other 

 species of the genus. Leaves very short, linear, opposite, sheathing the swollen 

 joints of the slem, acute, rough-edged with minute prickles pointing forwards. 



* [Tliis station is now (1864) destroyed by building, Edrs.] 



