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DECANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
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6123 Fl. panic. Stem diffuse. Leaves lin. lane, grassy carinate caisious 
6124 Stems panic, few-fl. Stam. shorter than emarginate petals. Leaves linear smooth 
6125 Petals obovate emarginate campan. Stamens shorter than corolla, Leaves linear somewhat fleshy 
6126 Stems panicled. Styles longer than emarginate petals, Leaves lin. lane, smooth 
6127 Stem dichotomous panicled much branched, Fl. axill. solitary. Leaves lin. flat as long as fl.-stalks 
2. Calyxes supported by 2-4 scarious scales. 
6128 Stems numerous erect stiff, Fl. panicled terminal. Leaves linear rigid 
6129 Flowers fascicled panicled, Cal. rounded villous yellowish. Leaves ovate lane, acute or not 
6130 Fl. panicled, Cal. pyramid. 5-ang. smooth, Bractes membranous acute. Leaves oyate lane, sessile 
6131 Stem erect. Branches divaric. with clammy hairs, Fl. on long stalks axill. Leaves lane, linear 
6132 Stems erect branched, Fl. panic, and corymbose, Cal. slender glandular purple, Lvs. ovate lane. 1-nerved 
6133 Stem dichotomous. Branches divaricating, Fl. axill. Cal. hispid round, Leaves linear spatulate 
6134 Tufted, Stems 2-leaved, Flowers headed with an involucre, Cal. woolly 
\ I. Flowers capitate or corymbose, sessile or stalked. 
* Bractes ovate, blunt. 
6135 Scales of calyx ovate pointless longer than tube. Leaves serrulate 
6136 Like the last, but the flowers nearly solitary 
** Bractes lanceolate, acute. Calyxes villous. 
6137 Flowers loosely bundled. Scales lane, subul. as long as tube. Leaves subulate. Calyxes hairy 
6138 Flowers densely bundled, Scales ovate subul. as long as tube. Pet. beard. Lvs. subul. pub. rough upright 
6139 Fls. aggreg. Scales long, than cal. striat. rough, Lvs. lin. short, than joints rough. Stem simple rough upw. 
*** Bractes ovate or lanceolate. Calyxes smooth. 
6140 Flowers aggregate fascicled. Scales ovate subulate as long as tube, Leaves lanceolate 
6141 Flowers aggregate racemose corymbose. Scales ovate lanceolate finally longer than calyx, Lvs. obi. lane. 
6142 Flowers aggregate fascicled. Scales acute ciliated twice as short as tube. Leaves ovate short 
6143 Fls. subsess. capitate. Scales imbric. mucron. at end spreading a little short, than tube, Lvs. long narrow 
6144 Glaucous, Fls. sess. capitate. Scales broad ovate with a long awn longer than head. Upper lvs. dilat. at base 
6145 Dark green. Flowers sessile capitate. Scales ovate very short pointless. Leaves narrow rough 
/3 Flowers panicled fastigiate and solitary stalked 
6146 FL aggregate. Involucres and scales scarious rufous oblong awned a little shorter than cal. 
6147 Fl. aggregate sessile and stalked. Scales ovate awned shorter than tube. Leaves linear 3-nerved 
6148 Like the last, but flowers aggregate headed sessile 3-8 
6149 Flowers aggregate. Claws of petals very long, Scales mucronulate closely imbricated. Leaves subul. fleshy 
6150 Flowers aggregate. Claws of pet. as long as cal. Scales mucr. closely imbric. very short. Leaves lane. obt. 
6151 Flowers aggregate, Scales ovate subulate thrice as short as tube. Leaves lin. lane, narrowed at each end 
6152 Flowers aggregate on long stalks. Scales twice as short as tube 
§ 2. Flowers panicled or solitary. 
* Petals toothed. 
6153 Flowers fascicled. Scales ovate lanceolate shorter than tube. Petals acutely toothed, Lvs. lin, lane, rough 
6154 Like the last, but the flowers more numerous, and the leaves linear lane. 
6155 Stem panicled somewhat hairy, FL sol. Scales ovate acute twice as short as cal. Leaves subul. 
6156 Flowers fascicled twin, Scales awned as long as calyx. Petals crenate. Stem decumbent, Lvs. anc. obt. 
6157 Flowers somewhat corymbose. Scales furrowed mucron. twice as short as tube. Stems diffuse smoothish 
6158 Flowers nearly sol. Scales 6 ovate mucron. much shorter than cal. Pet. crenate, Lvs. subul. rough at edge 
6159 Stem panicled smooth. Flowers solitary. Scales ovate awned as long as tube. Leaves subulate nerved 
6160 Stem many-fl. smooth. Scales cuspid, spreading shorter than tube. Pet. downy at orifice, Lvs. lin. roughish 
6161 Stem panicled, FL sol. Scales acuminate appressed, Petals acutely toothed. Leaves subul. lane. 
6162 Stem branched, Fl. sol. Scales linear leafy. Petals toothed, Leaves lin. lane. 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
carnation impregnated by a Sweet- William. D. caryophyllus is considered the source whence have sprung 
the numerous varieties of the carnation, and some think those also of the pink. The pink, however, is 
more probably derived from some of the smaller growing species, as plumarius, deltoides, armeria, earth u- 
sianorum, &c. 
The carnation is rarely found wild in England, but it may be gathered on the south side of the Swiss 
Alps. It seems to have been unknown to the ancients, at least in its cultivated state, not being mentioned by 
Pliny, or sung by any of the Roman poets. It has, however, been cultivated from time immemorial in Europe, 
and IS in the highest tavor for its beauty and rich spicy odour. It is the principal florist's flower of Germany 
and Italy, from which countries the British florists procure their best carnation seed, and also some esteemed 
varieties. 
T'^e varieties of carnation amounted to nearly 400 named sorts in the beginning of the eighteenth century, 
and the number has not since diminished. They are arranged in three classes ; flakes, bizarres, and picotecs. 
1* lakes have two colors only, and their stripes large, going quite through the leaves ; bizarres, Fr. (odd, irre- 
gular) are variegated in irregular spots and stripes, and with no less than tliree colours ; picotees, Fr. (piqueitee, 
■pricked or spotted) have a white ground, spotted or pounced with scarlet, red, purple, or other colors. Of 
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