DIANTHUS. 
already treated ; D. stenopetalus, about a foot high, with a head like a 
nut; D. viscidus, with many stems of the same stature; D. tym- 
phresteus, with fewer blossoms than the last, and a black spot at their 
base ; D. Hymenolepis, a most variable species, of some 10 inches as 
a rule; D. Lydis, about a foot and a half, with pale green leafage ; 
D., cibrarius, rather dwarfer, with leaves three-nerved instead of five- 
nerved ; D. pinifolius, half a foot high, from a dense mat, with pale 
purple flowers ; D. lilacinus, with the same height and habit, but of a 
pale lilac; D. capitatus (also D. glaucophyllus and D. calocephalus) 
a yard high, with minute stars of bricky-scarlet; D. bannaticus, 
or D. giganteus, or D. Balbisii; D. Haynaldianus (D. intermedius, 
Boiss.), square-stemmed, like Liburnicus, 2 or 3 feet high, with leafy 
wrappings to the head ; D. lateritius, like D. pinifolius, but with shorter, 
bluer leaves and square stems; D. trifasciculatus, D. heptaneurus, 
D.quadrangulus,D. Formanekii, and D. Holzmannianus (round-stemmed 
and close to D. cibrarius, but with longer scales and flowers of dark 
blood-colour). 
D. Caryophyllus.—The parent of the Carnations, and a fine orna- 
ment of rough rocks, with sheets of blue-grey foliage, and large pink 
flowers, to be known, among other points, by their smooth-edged petals, 
from D. plumarius, the parent of the Pinks, which is also not near so tall 
in the stem,nor branching. It has also many named varieties, including 
D.C. virgineus (D. longicaulis), D. C. coronarius (intensely sweet), D. C. 
siculus, rather sweet, and D. C. corsicus. By some botanists it is 
even made to include D. inodorus (D. silvestris). 
D. cibrarius. See under D. Carthusianorum. 
D. ciliatus is nothing special—a small erect-stemmed branching 
plant of half-woody nature, and with rough saw-edged leaves, from 
dry places of the South ; up the stems here and there, on short foot- 
stalks, it stiffly carries several smallish pink flowers more or less smooth 
at the edge, in a sort of lax spire. It is very close to D. cinnamomeus, 
which chiefly differs in having bluntish leaves and notched petals. 
D. cinnabarinus. See at one end D. biflorus, and at the other D, 
Sammartaniz. 
D. cinnamomeus. See under D. ciliatus. 
D. collinus, an ugly fat-headed form of pleasant D. Sonu 
D. confertus. See under D. Carthusianorum. 
D. coronarius. See under D. Caryophyllus. 
D. crinitus=D. hungaricus (Clem.).—This has stiff pointed spiky 
leaves, and its uncomfortable thorny wide mats send up stems from 
4 to 12 inches high, carrying either one flower, or some three or four 
on erect branches. ‘These flowers are white, and slit to the very base 
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