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, awl-shaped, and longer than the chives. Summit recurved, and pointed.
Seed-vessel. Capsule cylindrical, straight, one loculament, four-sided, and splitting at the end.
Seeds many, compressed, nearly round, and freed from the receptacle.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Dianthus alpinus. Frutex pygmæus, elegans, foliis oppositis, alternis, linearibus, curvatis, brevibus: floribus terminalibus, rubris, in medio circulo albo.
Alpine 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.