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P L A T E CCCCLXXXir.
D I A N 'ï H U S A L F I N U S.
Alpine Pink.
C L A S S VL ORDER ]L
DECJNDRIJ DIGYNIA. Ten Chives. Two Pointals.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX. Periantliiam cylindricum, tabvilpsum,
striatum, persistgns ; os 5-dentatum, basi
sqiiaraulis quatuor cinetum, quarum interduni
duae oppositae, inferiores.
COROLLA. Fetala 5. Ungues longitudine calycis,
angusti, receptáculo inserti : linabus
extus planus, laminis late obtusis, creiiatis.
SxAMifiA. Filamenta decern, subulata, longitudine
calycis : antherae ovales, oblongae,
compressae, incumbentes.
PisTiLLUM. Germen ovale. Styli duo, subulati,
staminibus longiores. Stigmata recúrvala,
acuminata.
P E K I C A R P I U M . Capsula cylindrica, recta, unilocnlaris,
quadrilateralis, apice dehiscens.
S E M I N A plurinia, compressa, subfotunda, a receptáculo
liberata.
SPECIFIC
D I A N T H U S alpinus. Frutex pygmasus, elegans,
ibliis oppositis, alternis, linearibus, cun-atis,
brevibus : floribus terminalibus, rubris,
ill medio circulo albo.
EMPALEMENT cylindrical, tubular, lined, remaining
: the mouth is 5-tootbed, surrounded
by ibur squamae at the base, or
sometimes two opposite ones beneath.
BLOSSOM 5 petals : the claws the length of the
calyx, narrow, and inserted into the receptacle
: border flat without, broadly obtuse,
and notched.
CHIVES. Ten threads, awl-shaped, the length
of the calyx : tips oval, oblong, compressed,
and incumbent.
PoiNTAL. Seed-bud oval. Shafts two, awlshaped,
and longer than the chives. Summit
recurved, and pointed.
SEED-VKSSEL. Capsule cylindrical, straight, one
loculament, four-sided, and splitting at the
end.
S E E D S mgny, compressed, pearly round, and
freed frora the receptacje.
CHARACTER.
A L P I N E pink. An elegant dwarf shrub, with
opposite alternate leaves, linear, curved, and
short. Flowers terminal and red, with a
small circle of white in the centre.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. A petal shown from the under side.
3. Seed-bud, chives, and pointals.
4. The chives spread open.
5. Seed-bud and pointals.
6. The seed-bud cut transversely.
THE Dianthus alpinus is a veiy scarce plant, little known, and rarely to be met with in any collection,
although its beauty renders it deserving a place in every one, and its size would never exclude it from
Our figure represents the entire plant, from the collection of Isaac Swainson,any esq. who raised it
fro'm seed which he'received from Germany. The only coloured representation of it extant is in the
Flora Ausiriaca of Jacquin, from a native specimen, and of no greater magnitude than our figure represeots—
a diminutive stature, particularly characteristic of tlie true Alpine pink.
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