DIANTHUOUS. 
perhaps two large flowers of an écru-copper colour, most strange and 
beautiful. The plant is at times shy of making grass for cuttings, 
and in seed is by no means always faithful to itself ; it should for choice 
be grown in a sunny stony place or in the moraine. 
D. Boissieri, from the limestones of lower Spain, is a diminished 
D. caryophyllus. 
D. brachyanthus. See under D. alpester, Balb., being a synonym 
of D. integer (Vis.). In the high limestone Alps of the Sierra Nevada 
it develops, however, a specially beautiful form called D. nivalis, 
which makes wee tight tufts of very blue stiff little recurving leaves 
with rose-pink flowers larger than in the type, and on stems of only 
about half an inch. The blueness of the foliage varies, and the effect 
of the neat mass is that of an unrecognisably glorified Silene acaulis. 
Some authorities and all catalogues raise the type of this species out 
of the ruck of D. integer, and give it specific rank as D. subacaulis, q.v., 
the chief difference (and one of great importance to the gardener) 
being the dwarfer habit in all these forms, differentiating them 
efficiently in the garden from D. integer, D. strictus, D. pedemontanus, 
and D. Lereschet. 
D. brevicaulis is near D. haematocalyx, forming the same close 
tight mat on which the rose-mauve flowers with their toothed petals 
(which are yellowish underneath) seem almost to sit close, each lonely 
on its stem. Only here the leaves are shorter, blunt, and soft, while 
the calyx is not so big and baggy. (High Alps of Taurus.) 
D. Broteri makes a neat half-shrubby bush of some 8 inches to 
2 feet high. The flowers are large and pink, with a dark spot at the 
base of the petals, while the leaves are stiff and three-nerved. 
(Portugal.) 
D. cachemiricus is like a slenderer D. Falconeri, erect, with 
channelled foliage and delicate, much branching stems, attaining 
2 feet or so, with large blossoms like those of D. caryophyllus, not 
fimbriate. 
D. caesius (properly D. glaucus, Huds.); the lovely Cheddar Pink 
with its sheets of blue leafage overshadowed in June by fragrant 
flights of fringed rose-pink flowers, in number as the stars of the sky 
but far exceeding them in homely charm, is the stay and stand-by 
of every sunny rock-garden. It is sub-alpine in dry places through 
the main ranges, and includes at least two other first-class garden-plants 
in its embrace. The first is D. swavis, which, except that it is larger 
in bloom and habit, seems in gardens indistinguishable from D. caesius 
either in beauty or value. And the other is that most delightful 
miniature, called D. c. arvernensis, perfectly minute and compact, 
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