and slightly spotted with pale rose, in the manner of what is known, by 
florists, as a rose-flake Carnation. The exterior petals are nearly round, 
or but a very little cordate, and spread almost flat; each of them is up¬ 
wards of an inch in diameter. The interior petals are numerous, and 
of an irregular shape, some of them being comparatively large, and 
roundish, often a little compressed and undulated; they do not lie flat 
over one another, but are loosely arranged in a cluster, similar to those 
in the centre of the flower of the Pompone Camellia, represented at folio 
9, of this work, although not so upright or compact. In some of the 
flowers, a few parcels of stamina may be observed, as is shewn in the 
figure in the Botanical Register; but they are for the most part all 
transformed into small narrow petals. 
