DIANTHUS. 
D. Knappii, a weakly little plant of miffy temper, wanting a 
situation specially well-drained, where it produces hardly any grass 
for cuttings, and usually dies after flowering without setting seed. 
The blooms, however, have the rare recommendation of being clear 
yellow (though not large, and gathered in a head at the top of one or 
two straggling stems of 5 or 6 inches). 
D. laetiflorus has no reason whatever for having glad flowers, 
unless it be because they stand erect—when in point of fact they would 
do more decently to depend, if only in shame for their smallness. It 
is an inferior species closely allied to D. pallens. 
D. Langeanus is a lankier looser-jointed D. hispanicus with much 
poorer flowers. 
D. laricifolius is a graceful thing from the fields of Spain, with 
cushions of furry-fine bright-green foliage, almost prickly, and delicate 
stems of between 5 and 14 inches in height, each bearing one or two 
pink blossoms with scalloped edges to the petals. 
D. lateritius. See under D. Carthustanorum. 
D. leptopetalus is anathematised under the heading of D. elon- 
gatus, q.v. 
D. Lerescher, a form of D. alpester, Balb., q.v. 
D. leucophaeus has a hard rhizome, emitting prostrate shoots, and 
forming (after the fashion of so many) a mass of foliage, from which 
emerge stalks of 6 inches or so, ending in a dusky dark calyx which 
emits a white flower, with petals almost entirely smooth at the edge 
and dusky-brown underneath. 
D. libanotis throws up a loose shower of very ragged lilac-white 
Pinks, hairy inside and spotted at the base, two or three to a spray, 
on stems of about a foot, above the glaucous-grey narrow tufts of 
leaves. (Alpine region of Lebanon, &c.) D. atomarius is almost the 
same, but much more feeble and flopping. 
D. Liboschitzianus, from the stony places of Ararat and the Levant, 
also makes a mass of narrow flaccid leaves, from which come stems of 
some 4 to 8 inches, bearing each one bloom of white or pallidest pink, 
either perfectly smooth at the edge, or else faintly and widely scalloped. 
D. 1. integerrimus is one variety, with quite smooth-edged petals ; and 
D.1. multicaulis another (D. petraeus, MB., not WK..). 
D. liburnicus. See under D. Balbisii. 
D, lilacinus. See under D. Carthusianorum. This dwarf Cluster- 
head sounds as if it might perhaps be admissible. 
D. liliodorus has white flowers with the special recommendation of 
smelling like Lilies of the valley. 
D. longicaulis, a form of D. caryophyllus, q.v. 
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