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1. DIANTHUS, L. - Pink, Carnation. (Adds and dvbos, flower 
of Jove.) — Chiefly natives of S. Europe and N. Africa, deservedly _ 
popular in cultivation. — Gen. n. 364; DC. Prodr. i, 355; Reichb. 
Icon. Fl. Germ. vi. t. 248-268 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 144.— Sev- 
eral species tend to escape and have become more or less naturalized. 
One variety only is indigenous to this continent. 
* Indigenous in the extreme Northwest. 
D. alpinus, L. Low cespitose perennial with numerous ascend- 
ing 1-flowered stems: bracts 2-6, erect or somewhat spreading. — 
Spec. 412; Regel, Ost-Sib. i. 284, — (Eur., Siberia.) Very variable 
and according to Regel passing into the following. 
Var. repens, Recer. Root single, vertical or descending, not 
repent: stems procumbent, much branched from near the base: 
branches simple, ascending, 3-6 inches in height, most often 1-flowered: 
leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, 8-16 lines long, glabrous, slightly 
fleshy : involucral scales a single pair, narrowly ovate, acuminate, 
nearly equalling the calyx, the attenuated tips slightly spreading : 
calyx somewhat inflated, 6 lines long: corolla purple, about 7 limes 
broad, glabrous, the obovate blade erose-dentate. — Regel, 1. ¢. 286. 
D. repens, Willd. Spec. ii. 681; Cham. et Schlecht. Linnea, i. 37; 
Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 195; Seem. Bot. Herald, 27, t. iv. — Northern 
and western coast of Alaska. (Siberia. ) 
* * Adventive from Europe and more or less established in various localities in 
the Eastern and Middle States. 
+ Bractlets short, half the length of the calyx: flowers solitary. 
D. ve.rorpes, L. (Mamen Pink.) Perennial: stems decum- 
bent, ascending, a foot in height, very leafy below: leaves short, lan- 
ceolate, a line wide, the lower obtusish, the uppermost acute: caly* 
long, tubular: petals narrow, pink or white. — Spec. 411; Eng. Bot. 
i. t. 61; Gray’s Man. ed. 6, 83.— Occasionally found escaped from 
gardens, New England to Michigan. 
— + Bractlets narrow, attenuate, equalling or exceeding the calyx: flowers 
ered. 
D. sarsatus, L. (Sweer Wittiam.) A smooth perennial, 1-2 
feet in height: stems simple, bearing the flowers in dense cymose fas 
cicles : leaves lanceolate, large for the genus, 1}~—3 inches long, a fourth 
as wide, minutely roughened on the edges: bractlets filiform from ® 
lanceolate base : blade of petals triangular-obovate, toothed, red, purple 
or white, often variegated in cultivation.— Spec. 409; Reichb. Icon. 
1. Germ. vi. t. 248, — Long cultivated and occasionally spontaneous 
about old gardens. 
