DECANDRIA. DIGYNJA. Dianthus. 539 
purplish rose-colour, crenate at the extremity, having principally at the 
base oblong white spots and a few long hairs. Anthers purplish, oblong. 
Styles two, filiform, pubescent. Hook. E.) 
Deptford Pink. (Welsh: Fennigany porfeydd. E.) Gravelly meadows 
and pastures (more rare in the north. E.) Charlton Wood, and else¬ 
where in Kent. Near Croydon. Norfolk, frequent. Mr. Woodward. 
Near Ketley, Shropshire, in gravel; Clarkton Leap, Worcestershire, in 
marl. Stokes. About Pershore and Eckington. Nash. (Teignmouth and 
King’s Teignton. Rev. J. Pike Jones. On Sunderland Ballast Hills. Winch 
Guide. By the side of the road from Warwick to Norton Lindsey, a 
short distance beyond the cross. Perry. Below the old deer-park at 
Penmon, and Anglesey. Welsh Bot. In fields near the seat of C. Gray, 
Esq. of Carse, Angus-shire. Mr. G. Don. Hook. Scot. E.) 
A. July. 
D. pro'lifer. Flowers in heads: scales of the calyx egg-shaped, 
blunt, pointless, taller than the tube. 
FI. Dan. 221— (JE. Bot. 956. E.)— Kniph. 7— Seguieri. 7. 1 —J. B. iii. 335. 
1— Lob. Ic. i. 450. l—Ger. Em. 599. 5—Park. 1338. 1— H. Ox. v. 25. 21. 
{Herb grass-green, smooth, except the edges and ribs of the short, linear, 
acute leaves , which are rough with minute sharp teeth. Sm. E.) Stem 
usually simple, upright, slender: (variable in height. E.) Flowers 
nearly concealed by the scales of the calyx, opening one at a time in 
continued succession. Woodw. ( Capsule cylindrical, containing many 
flat, black seeds. E. Bot. E.) Blossoms red, sometimes white; expand¬ 
ing about eight in the morning, and closing about one in the afternoon. 
Childing or Proliferous Pink. Sandy meadows and pastures; (not 
frequent. E.) Selsey Island, Sussex. Rev. Mr. Manningham. Dill. Near 
Norwich. Mr. Woodward. In a marl pit at Landridge Hill; Hanley 
Castle, Worcestershire. Mr. Ballard. (Meadows between Hampton 
Court and Tuddington. Merrett. E.) A. July. 
(2) Flowers solitary ; several on the same stem. 
D. caryophy l/lus. Scales of the calyx almost rhomboid, very short : 
petals irregularly notched, (beardless. E.) 
E. Bot. 214— Dod. 174. 3—Ger. Em. 591. 1— Pet. 56. 1. 
{Herbage glaucous. Stem panicled. Leaves finely toothed just above the 
base, linear, channelled, fasciculated. Flowers several, but not in bun¬ 
dles. Scales , the two outermost narrower than the inner ones, which are 
broader than they are long. Petals smooth at the orifice, pale flesh-colour, 
fragrant. Sm. E.) 
(Clove Pink, or more properly. Wild Carnation. E.) On old walls. 
Rochester, Deal, Sandown, and other castles, plentifully. Ray. Lever- 
ington near Wisbeach, (and on the walls of Chippenham Park. Relhan. 
Tower on the wall at East Ham, Essex. Mr. Dillwyn. Walls of Cardiff 
Castle. Dr.Turton. Walls of Ludlow Castle. Dr. Evans. Bot. Guide. E.) 
P. June—July.* 
* (Gardeners well know that from the seed of the Carnation, Pinks are never obtained, 
nor from that of Pinks can Carnations be procured. In fact these favourite flowers originate 
from distinct species, and are not mere varieties of the same, as has been erroneously, and 
even recently, intimated. The art of floriculture, sometimes despised with a reprehensible 
