DICENTRA. 
leaf-mould—the whole to be kept constantly moist from underneath 
(in which case sunshine is not contra-indicated). 
Dicentra.—The Bleeding Hearts are often hearts of gold, as in 
the case of D. chrysantha, a rare loveliness for dryish rocky places, 
from California, rather larger in habit than the North Californian 
D. formosa, with its ample Herb-Robertish foliage, and clear rosy 
hanging hearts in little clusters like a hyacinth’s. Yet ampler in the 
leaf, and more hyacinthine in the head, is the 10- or 12-inch D. exvmia, 
with blossoms of deeper pink; D. cucullaria is a finer, frailer thing 
in the way of D. formosa, but only 4 inches high or so, with flowers of 
pale pearly white, most delicate ; as is also the similar D. cambensis, 
which to blossoms of whitish-pink unites the ravishing fragrance of 
the Hyacinth. And every garden knows the most bleeding of all 
hearts, the towering and regal D. spectabilis of spring, so much 
more rudely if aptly styled when liberal gardeners give the grosser 
name of Dutchman’s Breeches. All these are easy and appropriate 
for sheltered corners, higher or lower, in the larger rock-garden. 
Dichondra repens is an ugly little green creeping Convolvulad 
with microscopic axillary flowers of yellowy-white. It runs along 
over a cool level with rooting stems and kidney-shaped leaves ; but is 
not worthy of such a place, not long retains it, for it is not soundly 
hardy. 
Dictamnus Fraxinella, with its major-form, D. purpureus, 
and its greatest of all developments, D. giganteus, also called D. cau- 
casicus, are superb Burning-bushes, with ashlike foliage and portly 
airy spikes of 18 inches or 2 feet in early summer of white or mauvish 
flowers, which, on a hot still evening, will blaze unconsumed in a 
supernatural glow, if a match be applied to kindle the volatile essences 
that hover in a halo round the petals that distil them. These are 
best grown from seed or bought clumps, and put out into rich and very 
deep double-trenched soil in a warm exposure, where they must 
remain thenceforth undisturbed for ever. 
Didymophysa Aucheri is a differently lovely thing, a 
dwarf spreading mat of small shoots, clad in little leaves, gashed 
into some three or five strips, and clustered at the tips of the shoots, 
which then emit close clusters of a dozen or so of pink Crucifers like 
those of Petrocallis pyrenaica, which the whole tuffet mimics; only 
that here the seed-pods are twins, and their valves the shape and size 
of a pea. From the same sort of rocky places in the Alps of Persia, 
Elburs and Demavend, &c. 
Dielytra, an early name of Dicentra, drawn from the likeness 
of the flower to the wing-cases (Hlytrae), of an insect. But the name 
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