DIAN'THUS PLUMA'RIUS. 
FEATHERED PINK. Wild Variety. 
Class. 
DECANDRIA. 
Order. 
digynia. 
Natural Order. 
SILENACEAS. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration 
Inhabits 
Britain. 
1 foot. 
June to Aug. 
Perennial. 
old walls. 
No. 922. 
Dianthus or ^^Jove’s Flower,” see No. 65. 
We here figure what may be pretty confidently 
stated to be the parent of our beautiful garden pink; 
long the puzzle of British botanists. Both it and 
the Carnation having, with doubts, been attributed 
to the same origin — the wild Dianthus caryophyllus, 
found on old castles and walls. This idea was, in 
some degree, correct; but not satisfactorily so. Sir 
James Smith, in Rees’s Cyclopaedia, says of the 
Pink, it is Most assuredly a distinct species, 
though botanists have not ventured to define it.” 
Dr. Bindley, in the Penny Cyclopaedia, says the 
wild Dianthus caryophyllus is, ^‘In its cultivated 
state, the parent of the Carnation, Picotee, and 
Pink.” Hudson, in his Flora Anglica, of 1778, 
attributed the origin of the Carnation to its 
commonly- received parent, — the wild Dianthus 
caryophyllus ; the Pink to his Dianthus arenarius, 
a plant which Sir James Smith, in his English 
Flora, includes as a variety of caryophyllus, but 
says, this May perhaps be Mr. Doody’s ^hairy 
species, frequent in Kent,’ noticed by Dillenius in 
Ray’s Synopsis; and the subject is worth notice.” 
