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I. DIANTHUS ARMERIA. Deptford Pink. Plate 86 
Caryophyllus pratensis Johnson in Gerard Herb. ed. 2, t. 11, 594 (1633); Armeria sylvestris altera caliculo 
foliolis fastigiato cincto etc. Johnson Kent 5 (1629); Caryophyllus latifolius barbatus minor animus flore minore 
Ray Syn. ed. 3, 337 (1724). 
Dianthus armeria L. Sp. PI. 410 (1753)!; Smith Eng. Bot. no. 3 1 7 ( 1 796) ; FI. Brit. 460(1800)!; Syme 
Eng. Bot. ii, 45 (1864); Rouy et Foucaud FI. France iii, 168 (1896). 
( d ) Petals 
leones: — Smith Eng. Bot. t. 317; FI. Dan. t. 230; Reichenbach Icon. t. 249, fig. 5011. 
Camb. Brit. FI. iii. Plate 86 . (a) Flowering branch. (b) Epicalyx. ( c ) Petals (enlarged), 
and stamens. Huntingdonshire (E. W. H.). 
Exsiccata : — Billot, 1618; Dickson, xvi, 3; 
Gandoger {FI. Seq. Exsicc.), 417. 
Annual or biennial. Shoot pubescent, dark 
green. Stem terete, simple below. Laminae 
linear-lanceolate, connate, margin ciliate, rather 
obtuse, upper ones erect or ascending, about 
3 cm. long. Inflorescence with about 3 — 8 
flowers. Flowers inodorous, with short pedi- 
cels, about 1 -5 cm. in diameter; July to early 
September. Epicalyx of 2 segments; segments 
narrow, acuminate, about as long as the calyx, 
not closely appressed to the calyx. Calyx 
strongly veined, segments acuminate. Petals 
deep red with paler spots, not contiguous, 9 ; 
limb narrow, gradually passing into the claw, 
irregularly toothed above. Stigmas as long as 
the ovary. Capsule opening by 5 short teeth, 
cylindrical. Seeds oval, tuberculate. 
This species connects Tunica with Dianthus , as shown 
particularly by the nature of the epicalyx. 
Though the plant has long been known in books as 
the Deptford pink, it would appear from Mr Britten that 
it is not the original plant from that town {Journ. Bot. xxx, 
177 (1892)). The name “ Deptford pink” was first used 
by Johnson {op. cit.) in 1603 : it was then applied by him 
to an undoubted figure (t. ti, p. 594) of D. armeria-, but 
the corresponding letterpress (p. 596), taken from the first 
edition of Gerard’s Herball (p. 476), refers to D. deltoid.es. 
Local ; hedgebanks, rocky slopes, old 
walls, limestone hills, sandy and gravelly 
ground, wood-clearings, drying-up fens, and 
waste places ; no doubt indigenous in many 
of its stations, but often a garden-escape or 
otherwise adventitious, and often disappearing 
and reappearing in its stations ; from the 
Channel Isles, Cornwall, and Kent northwards to Perthshire and Forfarshire. Not in Ireland. 
Southern Sweden (N. to 56°), Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, central Europe, 
Russia (central and southern), southern Europe; south-western Asia; North America (not indigenous). 
Map 36. Distribution of D. armeria in Great Britain 
2. DIANTHUS DELTOIDES. Maiden Pink. Plate 87 
C. pratensis noster major Parkinson Theatr. Bot. 1338 (1640); C. minor repens nostras Ray Syn. ed. 3, 335 (1724); 
Tunica ramosior flore candido cum corolla purpurea Dillenius Hort. Eltham. 400, t. 298, fig. 384 (1732). 
Dianthus deltoides L. Sp. PI. 41 1 (1753); Smith FI. Brit. 462 (1800)!; Syme Eng. Bot. 46(1864); 
Rouy et Foucaud FI. France iii, 175 (1896). 
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