DIANTHUS. 
“Linngzus faa variety with white fl were and a violet-coloured 
eye. They a e incdorous. hinenfis. China Pink. 
« Flowers fSlitary- Caly x-feales pe aped, fpreading, 
leafy, as long as the a Petals crenate. — Janceolate.” 
Curt. Mag. t. 25. Native of China, where it is much culti- 
vated, as well as in our a adiene It is 
feed, and fome varieties thence frequently occur. D. fuper, 
« Flowers folitary, panicled. Caly cree 
very fhort, pointed. Petals in many capillary i igments: 
= a Spicil Native of Lapland, 
mark, Germany, France, and Switzerland. It requires 
chalk or lime rubbifh to fucceed in a garden, and feldom lives 
more than two or three years. -It isrenewed by feed. The 
flowers are elegantly feathered, and in an evening highly 
fragrant. D. virgineus. * Flowers folitary, few on each 
ftem. Calyx- Seales very fhort and obtufe, only one to each 
ower fri crenate.” Jacq. Auftr. App. t. 15. Linn. 
Sp. Pl. 590. oa Aah ; Linn. Suppl. 240.) und on 
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finecRhows racks ria, France, and pene cen “Hale 
miftook this for D. caryephyli it eer his Tunic 
The flowers are inodorous, a ws cuous one with 
moft other {pecies; leave fiend 
Of the third feétion the chief are, D » cafius. Chedde: 
Pink. ‘ Stems fingle-flowered, Calyx-fcales rouridith, 
fhort. Petals hatry. Leaves rough in the margin.” 
Sm. Fl. Brit. 463. Engl. Bot. t. 62. (D. virginens 8; Lion. 
; 90.) Noe of lime-ftone rocks in England and 
Switzerland. It has hitherto ag obferved only on Chedder 
rocks, Somerfetfhire, and by avall on ee blanche 
near Orbe, Switzerland. The leaves are very glaucous. Flow- 
ers pale pink, 7 fect. fcented. Some garden pinks recently 
eae gees eem to originate from this {pecies. D. alpinus. 
wa pine Pink. ems fingle flowered. Petals 
ecacte. naga calyx-fcales leafy, longer than the tube.” 
Jacq. Auttr. t. 53. beautiful native of the Alps of 
Auttria, Siivia, "giberia Savoy, two or three inches high, 
with a red (condlels ioe fometimes more than one on 
each ftem 
“In the “fourth fe&tion are, D. a 
* Stem woody. 
Flowers in bundles. 
rboreus 
Calyx-{cales numerous, very obtufe 
r eaves linear, glaucou Sm. i 
Fi. Gree. 289. Linn. Sp. Pl. 590. (Betonies coronaria 
as cretica; Bauh. Hit. v. 3+ 328.) Native of Crete, 
cks near the fhore, where the late Dr. Sibthorp gathered 
it. A iplendia figure of this moft magnificent {pecies is 
deftined for his Flora Greca, that of B 
glauc le red, remarkable the numerous 
imbricated {cales of the c It feems to have been for- 
merly in the Fr rdens, but is now loft. D. fruticofus. 
« Stem w 3 in bundles, Calyx-fcales ellip- 
tical, pointed, numerous. an Soe Ble coe obtufe.”? 
Prod. 
m. in Fl. Grec. 289. Linn. S ome rhe 
not glaucous, an 
deeper and finer colour. The c a" Xe 
: D. juniperi 
«Stem fhrubby. Leaves awl-thaped. Calyx- {cales aaa 
four, obovate with a arg? point, {preading, half as long as 
the tube.” Sm. Tranf. of L. Soc. v. 2, 303. Native of 
auhin being the only — 
oe inus oo bes his 
hite. Geor n Pink, Sten 
Leaves awl-fhaped, Calyx- yaa about fix, ellip- 
tic-lanceolate, fhort. — oe deeply cu 
entalis; Don. Caut » Sims in Cort. t 
Caryopbyllus ovemai ruicof, enim folio, flore lack. 
niato ; Tourn Cor informs us this 
{pecies is found abet sae in Ruffian Cane, and that he 
received it from the garden of Mr. Loddiges at Hackney. 
It perhaps fcarcely belongs to this fection of the ne for 
many,.in the fecond have the bafes of their ftems not lefs 
woody. The flowers are red, 
could not adopt one from the ‘e ioa hich | is equally ap- 
plicable to ty fpecies befides, highly exceptionable in 
itfelf, and though sie in a eftablifhed Linnzan f{pecies, 
ne i een by claffical ers to new ones, any more than 
names of countries in gene 
nee THUS, in Gardening, comprehends a of the 
herbaceous flowery ornamental kind, of whic 
chiefly see in the garden are: 
bearded pink (D. barbatus); clove pink or clove gilliflower 
(D. caryophyllus); the common, or maiden eh (D. — ; 
the sees pink (D. plumarius); the gray-leaved, o 
mountain pink (D eae ae ot (D. ees : 
and the fuperb pink (D. fupe 
Of the firft 
fort, the principal varieties are: the broad- 
leaved, or {weet William ar ved, or {weet 
Johns, with fingle and jeuble ieee in ea aa And the 
chief of the fub-varieties in the firft, or broad-leaved kind, are, 
with broad leaves, and tall deep red flowers, with tall flefh. 
coloured flowers; with pure white flowers, with white dotted 
rable with 
But in the Ban or narrow-leaved variety, they ar 
with narrow leaves and deep red flowers, with pale red free 
ets, with pale red and flefh-coloured flowers, an purplifh 
white-syed flowers, with fnow white flowers, with white and 
ers, or Lisson feet-Wilams, 
by Martyn, that t 
ro d fort, with very double 
flowers of a deep ee incinng to blue, burfting the ca- 
lyx, is not fo much me the ile rofe 
freet- William, with fone s ofa fing deep rofe-colour, and 
{melling feces, ‘is much ial. as it does not burft. pe 
mle, or Fairchild’s fweet- William, which i is one of the 
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