DIANTHUS. 
logues, seeing that there is no real D. hungaricus at all; but yet © 
another species, D. crinitus, has been called D. hungaricus by a different 
authority ; so, on the principle of things that are equal to the same 
thing being equal to each other, there may well arise muddles between 
D. petraeus and D. criniius, the two Pinks so anxious to avoid the 
name of Hungary that they have been made to share. Dianthus 
petraeus, then, makes a flopping mat, as usual, of specially narrow, short, 
stiff, prickly leaves, each of them with three specially conspicuous 
nerves, roughish at the tip, and edged with hairs at the base. The 
stems are very numerous and bare, rising up in a crowd to some 6 
inches, each carrying a fine flower of white or pale pink, with the edges 
regularly deeply notched into oval scallops or lobes. (Stony places of 
Croatia, Bosnia, &c.) D. crinitus (q.v.) is wildly fringy. 
D. pindicola is probably identical with D. haematocalyx alpinus, 
a beautiful form, q.v. 
D. Planellae, on the other hand, is valueless. 
D. pluinarius, the father of all the Pinks, neat of habit and blue of 
leaf and strong in growth to the point of rankness, and profuse in his 
delicately toothed sweet flowers of pink, is well worthy of admission 
from the walls of some old abbey, where he has ensconced himself, 
to some high place in the rock-garden, where his masses can fall over, 
and decorate winter with the blueness of his leafage, as summer with the 
pinkness of his blossom. 
D. polyclados. See under D. Carthusianorum. 
D. pruinosus (Boiss.) is the variety pruinosus of D. haematocalyzx, 
q.v.—a lovely alpine, but laxer in mat than D. h. alpinus. 
D. pruinosus can also stand for a variety of D. floribundus, q.v., a 
plant of little value, also called D. noéanus, Boiss. (not the above). 
D. pubescens is found on Hymettus, Pentelicus, &c. It forms a 
mass of decumbent shoots, making a cushion of very narrow pointed 
leaves, with three conspicuous nervy ribs. The stock is hard and the 
trunks clothed in glandular down; from the mass arises, or rather 
declines, a great number of almost always unbranched stems, some 
6 or 9 inches long. The flowers appear on these, either lonely or in 
pairs, and are purple, with yellow underneath, and with the petals 
coarsely and irregularly toothed here and there. D. p. glabratus and 
D. p. cylleneus are varieties with rather smaller blooms. 
D. pungens is a Pyrenean species, suggesting a diminutive D. 
silvestris of about 9 inches high. It multiplies rapidly by running 
about, and earns its name by means of long, hard, prickly-pointed 
leaves. 
D. pyridicola is a most charming small species, having the shoots 
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