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the stout stems swollen at the nodes, and clothed 

 at intervals with pairs of long, bright green leaves 

 sheathing the stem at the base. The flowers are 

 numerous, crowded in a dense hemispherical head, 

 and the surrounding bracts are quite leaf-like ; the 

 dark red petals are toothed and bearded. It is a 

 perennial, slightly woody at the base, and is found 

 among rocks by the sea in Eastern Europe. It was 

 introduced from Bulgaria in 1828. 



D. intermedius. This is allied to D. giganteus, and 

 is found on Mount Olympus, in Thessaly, where its 

 rose-coloured flowers are among the sweetest of 

 wildings. The variety called ambiguus is the Servian 

 form of this species. 



D. Knappii. Some authorities make this a variety 

 of D. liburnicus, but it appears to us quite distinct. 

 Although the growth of the plant is loose and strag- 

 gling, and therefore not elegant, it is well worth 

 growing for the sake of its yellow colouring. It is 

 at home in either the border or in the rock-garden, 

 but especially in the latter. Place the plant rather 

 high up, so that its weak-stemmed flowers may fall 

 over a ledge. It comes from Hungary and the ad- 

 joining countries. 



D. liburnicus. A species found by the sea, and first 

 discovered on the shores of the Gulf of Quarnero, in 

 Istria. It also occurs in calcareous soil on the Mari- 

 time Alps. The stems are from one foot to two feet 

 high, and the red flowers are in clusters in August, 

 surrounded with leafy involucral bracts. 



B. D. Armeria (the Deptford Pink). An annual or 



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