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D I A N T H U S Armeria.
Deptford Pink.
D E C A JSf D R. IA Digynia,
Gen. Char. Cal. cylindrical, of one leaf, with about
4 fcales at the bafe. Petals 5, with claws. Capf.
cylindrical, one-celled.
Spec. Char. Flowers cluttered, in bundles. Calyx-
fcales lanceolate, downy, equal to the tube.
Syn. Dianthus Armeria. Linn. Sp. P I. 586. H udf.
F I. A n. 18 3 . With. Pot. A rr. 440. Sibth. Ox. 139.
Caryopbyllus Iatifolius barbatus minor ahnuus,
flore minore. R ail Syn. 3 3 7 .
A l t h o u g h lefs ftriking at firft light than many of its
beautiful family, the Deptford Pink will be found on minute
examination to be very delicately pencilled, and to poflefs a
- great degree 6f elegance in its form. It loves a gravelly foil,
and grows, as Mr. Woodward informed Dr. Withering, not
unfrequently in Norfolk. Mr. Sowerby gathered the prefent
fpecimen a little beyond the Falftaff Inn on Gad’s hill, Kent.
Root annual, tapering and zigzag. Stem round, leafy, erect,
fubdivided, the branches very ftraight, downy, terminated by
little compound clufters of inodorous flowers, which appear in
July, and continue to bloom till very late in autumn. The
lower leaves are broad and fomewhat fpatulate ; thofe at each
joint of the Item, and under the flowers, narrow, lanceolate
and acute ; all oppolite, entire, a little downy. Scales of the
calyx of the form of the upper leaves, and as long as the tube.
Petals a little toothed, narrow, fprinkled with minute red dots,
and marked with more or lefs of a line, forming an eye-like
ring in the centre of the flower. Each flower lafts but one
day, and there is feldom above one expanded at a time in each
duller. • The feeds are black, flat and minute.