DIANTHUS. 
clear rich pink, bearded inside and more or less toothed at the edge, 
and with three characteristic deep crimson lines down the throat 
of each petal. (Alps of Macedonia.) 
D. nivalis. See under D. brachyanthus and D. subacaulis. 
D. noéanus makes a dense mass of wide-spreading stiff three- 
nerved foliage, narrow and prickly-pointed. The flowers are white, 
carried in a loose bunch of from three to five at the top of 9-inch stems 
—this habit being quite special and distinct and recognisable. The 
blooms are white, and not fringy, indeed, but cut into narrow fine 
strips for about half their length. It abounds, rightly or wrongtly 
in catalogues, but as there represented, rather questionably, is not a 
species of outstanding merit. 
D. x oenipontanus is the correct name of a most beautiful plant 
that surely deserves to be known by some more distinctive tile, than 
a mere repetition of its parental names. For this is D. alpinus x 
superbus of catalogues—a magnificent and thrifty hybrid, with the 
tight habit of D. alpinus, but with broader glaucous leaves, pressed 
down in neat clumps, and as handsome as in D. callizonus, though 
larger ; and then, on stems of 3 inches or so, really enormous flowers 
that have borrowed triumphantly from both parents, having the 
ample cart-wheel of D. alpinus (but twice the size), of soft rose with a 
broad eye of dark crimson-purple; while from D. swperbus it has 
drawn a decent and modified version of the fringe, so that the general 
effect is that of some extraordinarily handsome Chinese Pink, sitting 
close upon the otherwise naked clumps of a giant D. callizonus. 
D. pallens (D. cinnamomeus, Fl. Gr. ; D. emarginatus, DC., Prodr.) 
really does not deserve such a rivalry of authorities for the honour of 
naming such a weedy mass of flabby glaucous rough-edged foliage, 
strongly nervy too, with notch-petalled stars of white, dirty greenish 
beneath, and opening in the evening like a Melandryum. 
D. pallidiflorus is of equally little use—stems of 1 or 2 feet, with 
loose sprays of pale pink bloom all one colour throughout. This is 
D. pallens, MB.; D. ramosissimus, Pall.; but equally unprofitable, 
no matter under what name purchased. 
D. pedemontanus. See under D. alpester, Balb. 
D. pendulus acquires its name in the cliffs of Lebanon, looking down 
on Sidon, where it makes a bush from the rocks of prickless foliage, 
and sends out stalks of 18 inches, carrying one pale pink flower, or 
two or three pink flowers in a bunch, their petals being deeply 
toothed in finger-like strips. 
D. petraeus is the right name of the plant called D. hungaricus, 
Griseb., and therefore the father of pardonable confusion in cata- 
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