DIANTHUS. 
D. striatiflorus. See under D. barbatus. 
D. strictus is the D. integer of gardens (this also, with its variety, 
D. s. brachyanthus, being now swept with D. integer (Vis.), and D. 
integer (Balb.), into the rather too catholic net of D. alpester, Balb. 
D. strictus, then, though generously advertised, is not a Pink of prime 
rank. Its neat mats, its crowd of 6-inch stems, its cloud of small 
white blossom, smooth-edged or toothed, will all be found described, 
for the sake of convenience, under the false and confusing botanical 
name of D. integer. The whole group, however, varies chactically in 
size and also sometimes in colour. There is certainly a form going 
about, called D. strictus (integer), grandiflorus, which remedies the 
defects of the type by having white stars more adequate in size to 
the calyx and the stem. It should be noted that in all this race the 
petals may be either smooth or nicked, but they are never ragged or 
fringed. 
D. suavis, a beautiful rock-garden Pink, exactly midway between 
D. plumarius and D. caesius, but very much nearer to the latter (q.v.) in 
general effect and beauty, though more deeply jagged at the edge of 
the petals. It is, perhaps, a hybrid. 
D. subacaulis of catalogues can be nothing more than Boissier’s 
variety brachyanthus of D. strictus, reappearing under another form. 
In other words, it is a variety of D. alpester, Balb., and will be found 
under D. brachyanthus. . It is also listed as D. « nivalis.” 
D. superbiens= D. robustus, q.v. 
D. superbus.—The stalwart but lanky giant Fringy-pink, with 
wild pale Ragged-Robin flowers of lilac or white, so often to be seen 
in hayfields and bushy places of the lower alpine region towards the 
Southern and Eastern ranges, is too soft a thing (as any one can tell 
from its rare tufts of broad green leaves) to prove a firm perennial ; 
nevertheless in. cool remote corners its beauty makes an effect in 
summer, and the few-stemmed gawkiness of its habit is not seen. 
(Its variety from Japan, D. s. monticola, is also a fine thing.) 
D. Szowitsianus.-—A sub-shrubby woody-stocked mass, otherwise 
like D. Seguiert, with stems of 9 inches, and the same blossoms, sharply 
toothed and densely bearded. But here the trunk and boughs are 
thick and woody, while the leaves are stiff, and the habit of the plant 
a dense mound of sprouts and foliage, with shoots as thick as a goose- 
quill. 
D. tabrisianus is a twin to D. fimbriatus, from which it differs 
chiefly in the longer, freer fringe to the petals. 
D. talyschensis is an 18-inch version of D. monspessulanus. 
D. tergestinus, a lax long-leaved, loose-flowered species after the 
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