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D I A N T H U S deltoïdes.
Maiden Pink.
D E C A N D R U Digynia.
Gen. Char. Calyx cylindrical, of one leaf, with about
four fcales at the bafe.. Petals five, furnifhed with
claws. Capfule cylindrical, one-celled.
Spec. Char. Flowers folitary. Two lanceolate fcales
only to each calyx. Corolla notched.
Syn. Dianthus deltoïdes. Linn. Sp. P I. 588. Hudf.
F I. A n. 184. With. Pot. A rr. 4 4 1 . Relh. Cant. 167.
Caryophyllus minor repens noflras. R ail Syn. 3 3 5 .
F 'O U N D on fandy banks and heaths in various parts of England,
growing proftrate among grafs and other herbs, for want
of the natural fhelter of which in a garden, it is not eafily
cultivated. It begins flowering in July, and lafts till very late
in autumn. The petals vary much in colour, being fometimes
of a very pale flelh colour, fometimes deep red, but are always
marked with a ring of deeper red dots, near the centre of the
flower.
Mr. Hudfon’s variety 0 has white flowers, with a beautiful
purple ring, and leaves rather more glaucous than in the common
kind here figured. That variety is the true Dianthus
glaucus of Linnaeus, and perhaps of Lightfoot, which, though
common in gardens, we have never yet met with wild in England.
It feems, however, no more than a variety. It has
indeed generally four fcales to the calyx, and fo has frequently
D. deltoidss. Mr. Hudfon’s D. glaucus is a very different
plant, fee tab. 62.