This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ...(Hoppe, in Willd. enum. 467.) stem panicled? flowers solitary or somewhat corymbose; calycine scales ovate-lanceolate. shorter than the tube; leaves linear-lanceolate, obsoletely 3-nerved, glabrous; petals doubly toothed. '2'. H. Native at Ratisbon. Flowers red? Wood Pink. Fl. June, Sept. Clt. 1815'. Pl. 1 foot. 61 D. cmNAMoMsUs (Sibth. and Smith, fl. graac. t. 400. prod. 1. p. 287.) stem panicled or simple, branches l-flowered; calycine scales 4, rhomboid, very blunt and very short; petals emarginate, toothed; leaves lax, bluntish. '1.1.. H. Native on heaths in Laconia, Asia Minor, Cyprus, and about Constantinople. Petals beardless, white or flesh-coloured above, but of a red or dark cinnamon colour beneath. Cinnamon-coloured Pink. Fl. June, Aug. Pl. 1 foot. 62 D. romsmnia'nus (Lin. spec. 1673.) stem branched; flowers solitary; calycine scales ovate, acute, very short; petals emarginate or entire. 21.. H. Native of Palestine, Smith, in Lin. soc. trans. 2. p. 800. Sal. par. lond. 57. D. tricolor, Adam. F isch. Petals pale yellow, with revolute sides, lead-coloured on the under surface. The flowers of this plant, as well as the following, opens at mid-day and closes about 10 at night. Afternoon-flowering Pink. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1804. P. 1 foot. 68 D. LEP'rorn'rALns (Willd. enum. 468.) stem branched; flowers solitary; calycine scales 4, ovate, acute, very short, a little awned, 2 outer ones very small; petals lanceolate, narrow, with entire revolute sides, sometimes a little 3-toothed; leaves awl-shaped, roughish. 1.'. H. Native of Caucasus. Sims, bot. mag. t. 1739. D. pomeridianus, Bieb. fl. taur. 1..p. 829. but not of Lin. D. cretaceus, Adam. Petals white on the upper sur face, but lead-coloured on the under...
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