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FA. 1* 1664.
2979.
DIANTHUS plumarius.
Common Pink.
DECANDR IA Digynia.
Gen. Char. Calyx cylindrical, 5-toothed, with 2—4
scales at the base. Filaments connate below, and
adnate to stalk of ovary. Capsule stalked, 1-
celled, many-seeded, opening at the top by 4
valves. Seeds peltate.
Spec. Char. Stem 2-5-flowered. Flowers solitary.
Scales of calyx roundish ovate, shortly mucro-
nate, their length one-fourth that of the tube.
Petals digitate-multifid to their middle, downy
below. Seeds flat, orbicular, with a lateral point.
Barren stems procumbent, rooting. Leaves
linear-subulate, rough at the edge.
Syn. Dianthus plumarius. Linn. Sp. PI. 589. De
Cand. Prod. v. 11. 363. Koch, Syn. FI. Helv. et
Germ. ed. 2. 107. Reichenb. FI. Excurs. 807; Icon.
FI. Germ. v. 6. t. 257. Bertol. FI. Ital. v. 4. 558.
Mack. FI. Hibern. pt. 1. 40. Leight. FI. Shrop.
188. Bab. Man. Br. Bot. ed. 5. 45. Syme, E.
Bot. ed. 3. pi. cxcv.
D. Caryophyllus. G. E. Sm. PI. of S. Kent, 25.
D. arenarius. Huds. FI. Angl. ed. 2. 185.
T h i s plant has just the same, but no greater claims than
D. Caryophyllus to be included in English Botany. Neither
species can be considered as more than a naturalized plant.
They both grow upon old walls, and are the result of mediaeval