DIANTHUS. 
from such a fate by eating the whole tuft flat in autumn. The species 
varies in the course of its distribution; there is a specially large- 
flowered form in the Alps round the Pflerscher Tribulaun, and in 
Transylvania lives that variety which catalogues offer as a sprees 
under the name of D. gelidus. 
D. glaucus, Huds., is the correcter name of D. caesius. 
D. gracilis is allied to D. Seguiert. The stems are square, and rise 
to some 10 or 12 inches, ending in two or three fairly large pink flowers 
with sharp-toothed petals, gathered together at the top, or often soli- 
tary. There are two more attractive forms of this from high-alpine 
stations on Athos and in Macedonia—D. g. pumilus, with short stems of 
2 or 3 inches ; and D. g. armerioeides, which is quite a close and densely 
clustered clump. 
D. graniticus forms one member of that vague aggregate known ‘as 
D. hirtus, a pervasive type in the Pyrenees and Southern France, of 
which this development haunts the granite, and the other, D. Requenii, 
the limestone. Neither of these is very attractive ; they are prostrate 
flopping species, in the way of D. deltoeides, with abundance of small 
leaves and small starry pink flowers gathered two or three in a head, 
the shoots being from 6 inches to a foot long, and the petals notched. 
D., graniticus is the best of the forms, and sometimes its blossoms make 
a fine effect like those of D. deltoeides, by virtue of their mass in summer. 
D. gratianopolitanus is a pleasant synonym for D. caesvus. 
D. Grisebachit, a foot-high cluster-head from Bulgaria with flowers 
of bright magenta. 
D. haematocalyx ; a flat close cushion of flat, stiff, sharp and fierce 
leaves, from which rise stems of 6 or 9 inches, carrying from three to 
five blossoms in an erect corymb or very loose spike. The calyx is 
baggy and big, blood-red and hoar-frosted, and enclosed in four red 
scales as long as itself ; while the large flowers are purple, with sharp- 
toothed petals, yellow underneath and bearded at the throat. A 
handsome species from the stony wood-regions of the Thessalian 
Olympus, with two marked varieties—the one D. h. pruinosus (D. 
pruinosus, Boiss.), laxer in habit, more bloomy, and with one flower 
only to the stem ; the other, D. h. alpinus, a lovely tight footstool from 
the summit of Parnassus, with undiminished Pinks sitting tight in 
a mass—a rare delight of concise magnificence. 
D. Haussknechtii is a little Cappadocian cushion, with many stems 
of 4 or 6 inches, each carrying a whitish flower whose petals are toothed 
at the edge and rosy underneath. 
D. Haynaldianus. See under D. Carthusianorum. 
D. heptaneurus. See under D. Carthusianorum. 
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