Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 795 - Dianthus caucaseus (Caucasean Pink) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 795, Dianthus caucaseus (Caucasean Pink).

• Plate: 795
• Latin name: Dianthus caucaseus
• Common name: Caucasean Pink
• Native region: Mount Caucasus
• Flower colour: Red
• Linnaean class / order: Decandria / Digynia
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

Original Curtis text
Transcribed from the plate's accompanying description page:

[ 795 ]

DIANTHUS CAUCASEUS. CAUCASEAN PINK.

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Class and Order.
DECANDRIA DIGYNIA.

Generic Character.
Cal. cylindricus 1-phyllus, basi squamatus. Petala 5, unguiculata. Capf. cylindrica, supera 1-locularis. Smith.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
DIANTHUS caucasicus; floribus subfoliariis, squamis calycinis ovato-acuminatis adpressis, petalis cunciformibus æqualiter incifo-ferratis, foliis glaucis margine scabris. Desc. Root perennial. Plant glaucous. Stems affurgent at the bafe, then erect, round, smooth, once or twice divariately divided, frequently bearing two flowers near, but not crowded, together. Internodes longer than the leaves, joints tumid, but much lefs fo than in collinus. Leaves linear, acute, keeled, margins scabrous with minute spines hardly visible to the naked eye. Scales of the calyx four, ovate-acuminate, not half the length of calyx, adpressed, not patent as in collinus. Calyx cylindrical, finely striated; teeth short, acute, connivent. Corolla thewy bright red with a dark spotted circle round the centre. Petals wedge-shaped, deeply incifd, but the middle incision not deeper than the rest; the upper part of the claw raised into a ridge in the middle and beset with a few thinly scattered hairs. Filaments ten, longer than calyx, insrted into a yellow glandular circle surrounding the germen: anthers blue. Germen cylindrical, styles scarcely equal to filaments. This new species of Dianthus is a native of Mount Caucasus, from whence Mr. Loddiges, of Hackney, procured the seeds; it has considerable affinity with and appears to be intermediate between Dianthus collinus (Plant. rar. Hungariae) and caesius of Dr. Smith, but is sufficiently distinguished from both; from the former by the flowers being lefs aggregate, the glaucous

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