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DIANTHUS crenatus. 
Long-cupped Cape Pink. 
DECANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Canyornyitem. Jussieu gen. 299. Div. V. Cal. tubu- 
losus. Stam. alterna hypogyna, alterna sepids epipetala. Styli 2 aut 3 
aut 5. 
“ DIANTHUS. Cal. tubulosus 5-dentatus, basi squamis 4 aut pluribus 
cruciatim imbricatis cinctus. Pet. 5 unguiculata, limbo sapé dentato. 
Styli 2 sepé recurvi. Caps. cylindrica 1-loc. apice dehiscens. lores ters 
minales, aggregati aut solitarii pluresve distincti. Species quedam suffrules« 
‘centes. Juss. }. c. 302. 
Div. Flores solitarii plures in eodem caiile. 
D. crenatus, floribus solitariis, squamis calycinis  senis lanceolatis, corollis 
crenatis. Thunb. prod. 81. 
Dianthus crenatus. Willd. sp. pl. 2.677. 
Rhizoma horizontale lignosum, puinetis diversis caules exserens, teres: 
Folia inferiora quaternatim subverticillata decussataque, erecto-patentia, ins 
Sernée subimbricato-approximata, linearia, acuminata, angustissinia, subtetra- 
ono-canaliculata, subbiuncialia, margine scabriusculo-pubescentia, mucronata, 
rigidiuscula ; caulina brevia, subulata, opposita, subvaginoso-perfoliata, par 
1 ad quodque genu. Caules subpedales, compresso-teretes, solitarti, graciless 
erecti, longe articulati, articulo supremo cequali foliis supremis, ramulis sim- 
plicibus, unifloris, solitariis, tn vagina brevi genuum hinc asxillaribus. 
Flores erecti, biunciales, albicantes, rubore obsolete suffusi, concolores, absque 
omni maculd, vesperé odori. Squame calycine per paria sene, striate, ovato- 
lanceolate, mucronato-cuspidate, Aplo v. circa breviores calyce, par imunt 
angustius, sphacelatum, paulum remotius. Cal. sesquiuncialis, striatus, cylin- 
dricus, tubo penne corvine duplo v. triplo latior, dentibus lanceolatis, erectis, 
imargine sphacelatis. Pet. glabra, 2-uncialia: ungues subexsuperantes caly- 
cem, cuncato-lineares, angusti, intts lined carnosa concolori elevatd planius- 
cula discum medium in longum transeunte: laminee cuneato-obovate cum 
acumine brevi lato, laciniato-crenate, ut breve, incisura media profundiores 
Anth. exserte, oblonga, ochroleuce. Germ. breve stipitatum, 8-plo brevius 
calyce, oblongum, cylindricum, albidum: styli palptformes, continuo-stigmatosi, 
exserti ad ullra medium limbi, intis superné canaliculati, pubescentés, apice 
inflext v. etiam intorti, ochroleuct. e 
The type of this genus, so familiar in Europe, has a 
footing by different species in all the quarters of the globe. 
In America, however, only three speciés have been ob- 
served, two of which are held to be the same with two that 
belong equally to Europe. At the Cape of Good Hope four 
indigenous species have been found; of these only albens 
‘had been introduced into our collections before the present, 
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