Sweet William
in botany and horticulture, Dianthus barbatus. The leaves are lanceolate and nerved; the flowers are aggregated in bundles; petals bearded, whence the book name of bearded pink. It may be single or double; the petals dark purple, red, speckled, or white. Also the Silene armeria, common, or Lobel's campion, a very common garden plant, with viscid stems; panicles of pink flowers. It flowers in July and August. an