it is a Species truly diftinct. 
We have in this Place given the three in Suc- 
ceffion; that the Botanical Student may ‘compre- 
hend their true Nature without Confufion, and 
the Gardener read their proper Difference.” ~~ 
Thofe who have confidered the Carnations as 
diftinét Kinds, and honoured them with particular 
Names, have called this blood-fpotted Flower 
the Red Piquette, and the Red Pounced Carnation: 
and the Latin Authors, Caryophyllus maximus va- 
riegatus, and Betonica coronaria, flore pleno maxi- 
ma, puntits rubris variegata. The firft is the 
‘Name of Caspar, the other of Joun Bavnine. 
In the plain or fimple State, the fame Authors 
have called the Plant Caryophyllus altilts aes and 
Betonica coronaria fativa. | 
* Thefe and the other Varieties Linn 2us com- 
prehends under one general Name. _ Having ufed 
the Word Caryophyllus as the Denomination of the 
Clove Spice Tree, he appropriates for this, the Ferm | 
Dianthus; and adds, as the Name of the prefent 
Species, floribus folitariis, {quammis calycims fub- 
ovatis, breviffims, corollis crenatis: Single and 
dented-flowered Dianthus, with the Scales of the 
Cup very fhort, and of a Figure nearly oval. | 
This is the diftinét and proper Name of the 
fingle Clove Julyflower, and it equally agrees with 
all "the others. | 
The Number and the Colouring of the Petals 
in a Flower our Student knows is no Mark of a 
fpecific Difference: this is all the Variation, 
though unlimited in the Difpofition, which there 
is between the common Flower and the whole Fa- 
mily of Carnations raifed from it; the Piguets, 
Bizarres, Flakes, and all the reft of our Carna- 
tions. : 
The Plant is unaltered thro’ all thefe Varieties 
of the F lower, and the fame Defcription will al- 
ways fuit it. 
The Root is fibrous. 
The. Stalk is round, fmooth, a of a pale | 
pearly green, jointed with {welling Knots, two 
Foot high, and divided into a few Branches. 
The Leaves are of the fame Tinge with the 
Stalk, but deeper, a pearly grey mixed with a 
light green: they are oblong, narrow, grafty, 
fharp-pointed; and of a firm SURES, and: stay | 
ftand two at each Joint. 
The Flowers:terminate the main Stalk: and. all 
its Branches, and they are large and elegant, full 
of Petals, difpofed with great Pegeaes and 
ftained with ie Colours... —— 
of a firm Subffance: 
full and fine Blood-red ; 
The Cup is double; the inner one cylindrick July. 
and long; the outer compofed only of four -———— 
flioht Scales. Thefe rife iinsmediouty from the 
Head of the Stalk, and are oval, pointed, and 
two of them have their Si- 
tuation a little lower than the others: from the 
Hollow made by thefe, rifes the inner or cylin- 
drick Cup; this is what Gardeners call the Pod of 
the Carnation: it is of a pale Colour and firm 
Subftance, ereét, hollow, and divided at the Top 
into five Parts. Thefe were meant by Nature to 
give an eafy Opening for the Petals; and the 
Gardener mutt affift, by cutting them down far- 
ther, when he has raifed the Plat in its full 
| Size and Glory. 
The Body of the Flower is compofed of nu- 
merous regular and elegant Petals; their Ground 
| Colour is a pure and perfect white; and upon 
this are {cattered little Dots of various Forms, of 
thefe feldom run into 
one another; they leave no large Space of the 
Petal vacant, nor are they in one Part more nu- | 
merous than in another. In this confifts the 
Beauty of the Flower: from this State there are 
innumerable Variations. In the Place of regular 
Spots the Red will fometimes run into Clouds; 
and inftead.of this deep Blood-Red it will be pale 
and faint, or tinged with Blue, and emulate 
the Purple. 
‘The Student who would refer the Plant to its 
proper Clafs, muft examine a fingle Clove July- 
| flower : 
from this Stock it is derived, and he 
will here find the regular and unaltered Charaters. 
The Petals are five: they have long narrow 
Bafes, equal to the Depth of the inner Cup: the 
Body of each Petal is broad, obtufe, and notched. 
In the Centre rife ten Filaments ; they are 
fmalleft at the Top; their Length is equal to the 
Cup, and they have fpreading Buttons, of an 
oval but fomewhat oblong Form, comprefied and 
incumbent. In the Midft of thefe appear two 
confpicuous Styles, longer than the Filaments, . 
with crooked pointed Tops. 
The ten Filaments refer the Plant: to thee De- 
candria of Linn aus, and the two Styles place it 
under the fecond Section, the Digynia. - 
Fhe Culture of this is the fame with that 6f 
the other Carnations, which we: fhall deliver at 
large in afucceeding Number, defcribing two other 
very confpicuous Kinds: in this we have propos’d té 
acquaint the Student with the true Form and 
Characters of the Flower, and the Nature of its 
inoumerable Variegations. 
2 The GREAT CRIMSON CARNATION. 
Pil, 43. 
Fig. 2. 
feminal Varieties of the Clove Julyflower, vari- 
oufly altered. by Culture in the Size, Number, 
and Colours, of the Petals : 
We. have obferved that. the Carnations are. all 
the F orm very éleaarty and it may not improperly 
be' called the double Crimfon Julyflower. 
Linn aus compreherids it with the reft, under 
this is lefs altered | the Name we have exprefs’d, as the proper Dero! 
than moft others. The Colour is fimple, though } mination of the preceding Kind, nor dees it differ 
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