DENTARIA. 
foliage, high above which shoot the abundant flower-spikes in July, 
August, and September, when almost all Delphiniums are done. 
They are some 3 to 5 feet in height, set thickly with flowers of a rich 
deep violet with a white eye. A perfectly easy, useful, and beautiful 
species by no means properly appreciated. 
D. Zalil differs from the impostors that fare forth and do ill under 
its name, in being a perennial plant of strong constitution; and its 
flowers are not pale, but of brilliant yellow—so brilliant, indeed, that 
all the rolling meadows and downs about Gilran are an undulating sea 
of gold when it isin bloom. It is exported thence for dyeing silk— 
a beauty whose clump of tubers cannot be too much cherished if we 
want to adorn our gardens in late summer with its fine ferny foliage 
and 3-foot spikes of rich pure colour. 
Dentaria, 2 woodland or marshland race of tallish Crucifers, 
much entangled and interchanged with Cardamine, q.v. All are for cool 
places, on shady banks and damp exposures, in heavy garden loam. 
Our own D. bulbifera is a rare native about a foot or two in height, 
with fine much-divided foliage, graceful stems, and heads of pale purple 
flowers, rather large. It might easily be ousted from some woodland 
corner by a worse thing. But far finer is the similar ample-leaved 
D. digitata from mid-Europe, with larger blossoms of a fine lavender 
rose, with the foliage gashed into threes and fives. Another charm- 
ing plant is the rare D. enneaphylla as it may be seen in the woods of 
the Eastern Alps—as above the Brenner, coming early out of the 
ground with a glossy stem ending in an opening cluster of pointed, 
folded, shining folioles looking rather like the frill of some monstrous 
nemorosa-Anemone, and with flowers emerging, in a bunch of creamy 
white, that looks not unlike the cluster such an Anemone might emit, 
if cluster it could. Then by degrees the growth unfurls into a tall and 
stately Dentaria of nearly a foot, with three whorled leaves on the stem, 
cut into three, slashed into sharp lobed lobes now like Anemone trifolia, 
but with hanging sprays of large cream-white flowers; even finer is 
its twin, D. glandulosa, with flowers of purple; D. intermedia from 
Switzerland is a bigger thing than C. digitata, and D. pinnata is like 
a few-flowered light-llac D. bulbifera, but lacks the bulbils in the 
axils of the leaves. And yet other species are D. diphylla, white ; 
D. maxima, very large, whitish lilac ; D. incisa is of the same colour ; 
D. heterophylla is purplish ; and yet others are D. incisifolia and D. 
anomala, and D. Kiliasi, a stately species with blossoms of purple rose 
from the Eastern Alps. The smaller species are most neat and pretty : 
such are D. quinquefolia, from damp orchards of Russian Armenia, 
which is only some 10 inches high, but with larger flowers than 
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