DIANTHUS. 
into a fringe as fine as hair, differing from D. fimbriatus in this 
exaggerated fringiness, no less than in the greater length of the 
blossom. It occupies Asia Minor, and has two varieties, D. c. 
tomentosus and D. c. crossopetalus. 
D. cruentus. See under D. Carthusianorum. 
D. Cyri, a worthless annual. 
D. deltoeides, a native species, and always pretty, with flopping 
masses of bright-green, and incessant abundance of small brilliant 
pink blossoms freckled with crimson. There are still brighter forms, 
and a good albino. 
D. deniosus is an obscure and difficult name. Robinson, of old, 
used to wax quite eloquent over the charms of the Amoor Pink, 
which was said to form a neat glaucous tuffet, with lilac-purple, dark- 
eyed blooms on 6-inch stems. This sounded acutely desirable, and 
it is perhaps only on the principle of demand creating supply that 
Russian botanists do now send out seed whose results hitherto suggest 
the old description, so far as the broad, rather glaucous, slightly wavy 
leafage of the tufts is concerned. But in the meantime the « Index 
Kewensis ”’ declines to recognise D. dentosus at all, and makes the name 
a synonym of D. sinensis, which (even if it resembled the description 
in any other point) is not perennial. And it must be confessed 
that such a supply has demand already created, that from Russia, 
before this, there have often emanated so-called D. dentosus that have 
proved only the most pale, ragged and dingy weeds. Therefore the 
question hangs in suspense until the latest batches have bloomed. 
D. dissimilis may be separated, by those who please, from D. 
neglectus, in being rather taller, in having rather more flowers to the 
stem, and in being more or less bald at the throat. But this is all a 
matter of « rather.” 
D. dumulosus, a variety of D. fimbriatus. 
D, elatus is like a much improved form of D. deltoeides, with larger 
flowers of pale purple, cut deeply into elongated teeth. (Siberia.) 
D. elongatus, no use; fifteen inches of unbranching stem, and 
then narrow petals of yellowish white. D. leptopetalus is exactly the 
same, but that the stem branches and the petals are blue underneath. 
They do not open till the evening. (Thrace and Macedonia.) 
D. erinaceus makes a dense, tight and prickly mound, on Sipylus 
and Ida. The blossoms are carried solitary on stems of 6 or 9 inches, 
and are toothy-petalled and pink, with a beard at the throat. There 
is a yet dwarfer closer form called D. e. alpinus or Webbianus. 
D. erythocoleus.—It is a pretty compressed tuffet of half an inch, 
with short narrow blunt leaves, on which sit singly rose-coloured 
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