Order II. DECANDRIA DIGYNIA. 378 
6163 Stem branch, upvv. closely dichotom. Fl. sol. Bract, with a spread, leafy point, Lvs. lin. subul. 3-ncrv. hairy 
6164 Stem branched, Fl. sol. Scales very short ovate, Petals very broad beardless, Lvs. lin. sub. channelled glauc. 
6165 Stem branched or simple, Fl. sol. Scales very short 4 ovate. Pet. broad beardless toothed 
6166 Stem dichotomous panicled many-fl. glaucous, Fl. sol. Scales 4 pungent spreading shorter than tube 
6167 Fl. sol. subcorymb. Scales ov. lane, short, than tube, Lvs. lin. lane, obsol. 3-nerv. smooth. Pet. twice toothed 
6168 Fl. sol. Scales ovate acute very short, Petals emarginate or nearly entire 
6169 Stem branched, Fl. sol. Scales ovate acute very short awned, Pet. lane, narrow, Leaves subul. roughish 
6170 Stem few-fl. Fl. sol. Scales very short mucron. spreading. Tube gibbous, Pet. entire, Lvs. c£espitose subul. 
6171 Stem decumb. branched, Fl. sol. Scales ovate lane, acute twin. Upper leaves narr. acute : lower oblong obt. 
6172 Like the last, but flowers white. Leaves and stem glaucous 
6173 Stem branched, Fl. sol. Scales 6 lane, appressed, Pet. smooth cuneate obovate, Lvs. hn. acum. channelled 
6174 Stems tufted few-fl. Fl. soL Scales ovate acute short, Leaves subul. spreading downy rough 
6175 Stem 1-fl. Scales 2 ovate acute short spreading, Cal. contracted in middle, Lvs. lin. chann. roughish at edge 
6176 Stem 1-fl. Scales 4 acute short. Petals bearded doubly serrated. Leaves lin. spreading 
6177 Stems tufted about 1-fl. Scales roundish short. Pet. crenate downy. Leaves bluntish rough at edge 
6178 Stem 1-fl. Outer scales as long as tube : inner much shorter, Pet. crenate, Leaves obi. obtuse 
6179 Pedunc. bilid term. Scales lane. cusp, erect short, than tube, Pet. cut, Lvs. lin. nerved serrul. rough at edge 
6180 Stems about 2-fl, Scales 4 ovate acute twice as short as tube, Petals serrate downy. Leaves linear 
6181 Stem about 1-fl. Scales obovate mucronate. Pet. beardless many-cut. Leaves subul. entire smooth nerved 
** Petals fringed. 
6182 Stems ascending about 1-fl. Scales short ovate. Pet. toothed many-cut. Leaves lin. ciliated 
6183 Fl. sol. Scales 4 lane, short. Petals emarginate at the end fringed toothed 
6184 Glaucous, Stems 2-3-fl. Teeth blunt, Bractes ovate very short pointed. Leaves lin. rough at edge 
6185 Like the last, but the petals bearded at their orifice 
6186 Stem pan. few-fl. Fl. sol. Scales ovate acum. Petals equally cut crenate, Leaves glaucous rough at edge 
6187 Stems 1-fl. Scales ovate lanceolate acuminate shorter than tube, Pet. beardless, Lvs. subul. rough at edge 
6188 Stem branched few-fl. Scales 4 blunt short, Petals beardless dotted, Leaves glaucous linear flaccid 
6189 Stems 1-fl. Scales ovate obtuse four times as short as calyxes. Pet. naked, Leaves subul. glauc. ciliated 
6190 Stems 1-fl. Scales ovate obtuse, Leaves linear 
6191 Stem half-shrubby branched at base 2-fl. Scales 6 lane, shorter than cal. Leaves subul. rough 
6192 Fl. scattered solitary. Scales lane. lin. spreading a little shorter than tube, Leaves lin. nerved flaccid 
6193 Stem panicled few-fl. Fl. sol. Scales subul. straight twice as short as tube. Petals digitate, Lvs. hn. serrul. 
6194 Stem panic, many-fl. FL fastigiate. Scales short ov. mucron. Pet. beyond the middle pinn. many-cut hairy 
[at orifice 
TRIGYNIA. 
6195 Branches divaricating. Leaves ovate, Cal. campanulate. Pet. distant 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
Behind the petals a circle of card paper is sometimes fixed to keep them in position, and the pot in which the 
plant grows is placed on a particular description of saucer, by which it is surrounded by water, in order to 
prevent the approach of ground insects, and especially of the earwig. These and a number of other opera- 
tions will be found described at length in Maddock's Florist's Directory, and in the Encyclopasdia of 
Gardening. (Sec. 6406.) 
The pink, as a florist's flower, is of much less antiquity than the carnation : it is scarcely mentioned by 
Gerarde, and Parkinson has given very few varieties. It was chiefly grown as a border flower till within the 
last fifty years, since which it has been greatly improved and many fine varieties originated. Being one of 
the hardiest and least expensive of fine flowers, it is much cultivated by operative mechanics and manufac- 
turers round large towns, and no where to such an extent as about Paisley, by the muslin weavers there. 
The varieties of pink most cultivated are chiefly those called pheasant's eyes, which seem to have sprung 
from D. plumarius. Cob pinks are a large sort seemingly intermediate between pinks and picotee carnations; 
red early pinks are smaller plants than cobs, but larger than pheasant's eyes, and seem to have sprung from 
cobs and D. armerius or deltoides. The Paisley growers reckon above three hundred varieties of the pheasant's 
eyes. To garden pinks in general "Wildenow gives the appellation of D. hortensis. 
The propagation and culture of the pink is the same as that of the carnation, excepting that it as less 
frequently kept in pots or frames, but planted in beds of fresh loamy soil, and the small side shoots reduced m 
the autumn in order to throw more strength into those intended to produce flowers the following season. 
Some cover their pink bed with an awning. Not more than eight or ten flowers are ever allowed to expand 
on one plant, and these, if they shew a tendency to bursting at the calyx, are to be tied as in carnation 
culture. . 
1047. Cucubalus. A name signifying a bad subject ; an evil weed. According to Miller, the berries of this 
plant arc no less deadly than those of Nightshade. 
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