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as they do not spread much, and produce very little effect unless kept in masses. They look best in a warm 
sunny border, backed by evergreen shrubs ; as the foliage of the pinks is scarcely seen, and the somewhat gaudy 
colours of the flowers require relief. Seeds may be procured at any seed-shop. 
OTHER ANNUAL KINDS OF DIANTHUS. 
D. PROLIFER, Lin. THE COMMON WILD PINK. 
This species is found in great abundance in every part of Europe, though it is less plentiful in England than 
on the Continent. The flowers are produced in heads, and are of a pale pink. 
D. ARMERIA, Lin. THE DEPTFORD PINK. 
The flowers are speckled with pink and white, and only one opens at a time in each tuft. It is found 
abundantly in England and throughout Europe. 
D. CORYMBOSUS, Sib. et Smith, 
has the flowers rose-coloured above and spotted, but yellowish-green beneath. It is a native of Asia Minor, and 
has not yet been introduced. 
D. ARMERIOIDES, Raf. 
A native of New Jersey in North America, with red flowers, introduced in 1826. 
GENUS V. 
AGROSTEMMA, Lin. THE AGROSTEMMA, OR ROSE CAMPION. 
Lin. Syst. DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Generic Charactfji. — Calyx 5-toothed, naked. Petals 5, unguiculate, furnished witli a crown of petal-like scales in the throat. 
Stamens 10. Styles 5. Capsule 1-celled. 
Description, &c. — The genera Lychnis, AgrosUmma, and Githago, are distinguished from each other 
principally by the shape of the calyx, and the presence or absence of the anthophorum, or receptacle on which 
the petals, stamens, and ovary, are seated. The plants belonging to these genera are called by different names 
by different botanists ; and, according to the Linnsean system, some flowers were called Lychnis, that are now 
considered to belong to Agrostemma ; and the reverse. Under these circumstances, we have not thought it worth 
while to describe the three genera, but shall include the very few annual species belonging to them under the 
genus Agrostemma. 
1.— AGROSTEMMA C(ELI ROSA, Lin. THE ROSE OP HEAVEN, OR SMOOTH-LEAVED LYCHNIS. 
Syhonyme. — Lychnis Coeli-Rosa, Des. 
Engravings. — Bot. Mag. t. 295, and out Jig. 2, in Plate 20. 
Varieties. — These are numerous; but they differ chiefly in the 
leaves being smooth or rough, and the stems decumbent or erect. 
SpnciFic CHAftACTER Plant glabrous. Stem dichotomously pani- 
cled, erect. Flowers solitary, terminal. Calyx clavated, with ten 
ribs. Lobes very acute. Petals lobed. Leaves linear, acute. 
Anthophorum long. — (G. Don.) 
Description, &c. — A very elegant hardy annual, a native of Sicily and the Levant, which was introduced 
in 1739, and first cultivated by Miller, in the Chelsea Botanic Garden. The seeds, which are common in the 
seed- shops, should bo sown, early in April, where they are to remain, and the plants not thinned out ; as, when 
