DIANTHUS. 
D. Lumnitzeri is a laxer-habited reproduction of D. serotinus, with 
flowers smaller and less violently fringed. 
D. macranthus, from South Persia, has white blossoms, solitary 
on 12-inch stems. 
D. masmenaeus is not unlike D. hypochloros, but the leaves are 
shorter and broader, and hardly prickly, while the whole mass is 
- clothed in white down. With a variety D. m. glabrescens (D. 
mutabilis). 
D. Mercurii makes a mass of smooth and blue-grey foliage, from 
which come 9-inch stems carrying two or three flowers, or perhaps 
only one ; these are pale pink, and yellow underneath, with the petals 
sharply vandyked. (Achaea.) 
D. micranthos may perhaps be a high-alpine development of D. 
-anatolicus which it closely resembles, though only some 6 inches or a 
foot high. But the petals are quite smooth at the edge, whitish pink, 
and deeper underneath. (Alps of Taurus.) 
D. microlepis (D. pumilus), is a most lovely tiny plant for the 
moraine, differing principally from D. Freynit in being rather green 
than blue-grey in the leaf, but varying greatly in this point, as in 
many others, but never in being a most charming neat mat of 
softish broadish little leaves, on which sit almost close the delicate 
stars of pink or white blossom. It is of the easiest culture, but so 
dainty and choice that no place is too prominent for it, and its tidy 
round pin-cushions rarely exceed 5 or 6 inches in diameter. This, 
with D. Freyniit, may be said botanically to come near D. glacialis ; 
in every detail they are as far removed from it as possible in the 
gardener’s eye—incomparably more exquisite, permanent, neat, 
minute, and delightful. 
D. minutiflorus=D. strictus brachyanthus (D. alpester, Balb.; D. 
integer, Vis.). 
D. monspessulanus (a variety of D. fimbriatus) must not be ne- 
glected ; this is a ragged rascal running among rugged rocks with frail 
growths and grassy foliage; and then emitting stems of 9 inches or 
more, zigzagging and stiff, with large and very sweet and very fringy 
pink flowers in the later summer. For the rock-garden, however, it 
exists more in the background than its variety D. m. Sternbergii. 
(Also called D. alpester, Sternb. See under D. Sternbergit.) 
D. multipunctatus is worthless. . 
D. musschianus is a tight compact Cluster-head from the Armenian 
Alps, growing in dense mats, and sending up stems of only 2 or 3 inches, 
with bunches of purple stars enclosed in purple calyces. 
D. myrtinervius is another lovely jewel from the alpine fields of 
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