36 SWISS FLOWERS. 



divisions to its long tubular calyx. Its head of flowers 

 contains from two to five, the petals are notched, and the 

 plant has rather the appearance of a small head of Sweet- 

 William. The colour is a bright dark crimson — well 

 described by the word atrorubeus, which is given to some 

 of the varieties — without any lighter spots. The notches of 

 the petals are very irregular. It has a bearded, brownish 

 kind of involucre; the calyx is also bearded. The leaves 

 are rather smooth, sheathing. In dry places in the plains, 

 and on the mountains. Zermatt, Glacier du Rhone, upper 

 part of Rhone- Valley, Simplon, &c. 



D. caesius (Fig. 18). The charming kind we have at 

 Cheddar, varying in size according to situation, with 

 flowers of a true pink colour, calyx and stem with lines of 

 dark purple, which mixes prettily with the glaucous-green. 

 The stems are jointed. It comes up very easily from seed, 

 which should be set in chinks of old walls. Rocks of the 

 Alps and Jura : rocky pastures of Zermatt, Reculet, Suchet, 

 and Chasseron. 



D. superbus, or Fringed Pink (Fig. 19), is very easily 

 recognised from having its five petals, which are very dis- 

 tinct, deeply cut into stripes. The flowers grow one or two 

 together, are from two to three inches across, of a mauve 

 colour, with a dark mark on each of the petals before they 

 begin to divide, and have a fragrant smell. The plant is a 

 foot or a foot and a half high, with green pointed lanceo- 



