DIONYSIA. 
was misprinted, and turned out of the printer’s hands as Diclytra, 
an error which for long kept hold of the popular mind. 
Dierama is always in catalogues accorded a feminine adjective, 
although their compilers do not fall into the same trap of the Greek 
neuter termination in -ma, when dealing with Aethionema (they are 
a little wobbly about Onosma). This plant, therefore, is D. pendu- 
lum and, in forms that evoke special enthusiasm, D. pulcherrimum. 
It has a grace and glory all its own, a long tuft of upstanding narrow 
foliage rather suggesting that of a stiffened, elongated Iris unguicularis, 
and then, in late summer, tall, thin, but toughly wiry stems of 4 feet or 
so, wavering and swaying this way and that beneath a long 
dropping shower of chafly-cupped rose-purple bells on pedicels so fine 
that they hardly seem to be attached at all to the stems. There are 
white forms as well as the clearer pink ones called D. pulcherrimum ; 
all should be planted very deep, about 7 inches down, in warm soil 
of sandy peat in a situation sheltered from excessive wet in winter. 
For Dierama, though South African, is perfectly hardy, yet requires 
so much respect for its memories of home, at least in colder and wetter 
parts of the country. 
Digitalis.—Of the many Foxgloves obtainable, the rock-garden 
may perhaps be glad to use, for adornment in dull moments: D. 
lutea, with close spikes of rather small yellow tubes; D. ambigua, 
with looser spikes of much larger finer yellow bells; D. minor, not 
much more than 6 inches high, with a quite lax and leafless stem of a 
few quite large pink flowers, with only a central basal rosette of 
leaves ; D. Thapsi, rising from half a foot to 18 inches, vested all over 
in tawny-pale wool, with large and rather pendulous pink flowers, and 
the leaves all dead when they unfold; D. lanata and D. leucophylla, 
more or less whitely-woolly, and with blossoms of yellowish tone, 
veined with violet. There are many others of tall habit, D. aurea, 
D. grandiflora (also yellow), &c.; all are profuse from seed, and like 
almost any situation and soil; as a rule, in nature, non-calcareous (not 
that they really mind !), and inclining, as a rule, in nature, to prefer 
half-shady places. 
ionysia, a race never found in either list or garden, but weil 
deserving to be cherished in both if it would accept of such observance. 
For this is a race entirely confined to the highest Alps of Persia, where 
it so entirely and deliberately replaces Androsace as to be (like the 
marmalades) a precise and absolute substitute—neat cushions in the 
rocks, studded with blossoms which differ from those of the Aretian and 
all other Androsaces in having a notably long flower-tube, curiously 
bulged and swelling in the middle. Of these unacquired treasures the 
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