THE WILD PINKS 125 



authorities to have given rise to the garden Carnation, 

 but it has no fragrance. It is one of the prettiest and 

 most easily grown of the rock Pinks, and grows into 

 a tuft of slender grassy leaves, which are almost 

 hidden with the mantle of pink flowers on rather 

 weakly stems. It has a creeping root or underground 

 stem, and is best in loose stony soil on a sunny ledge, 

 where the roots can penetrate into the moisture below. 

 Introduced in 1814. 



D. tener. A Pink from the Piedmont, the stems 

 slender, one-flowered, and the pink flowers beardless 

 and cut into narrow irregularly-shaped lobes. 



D. viscidus. The not ungraceful flower clusters of 

 this Pink, which comes from the mountains of Greece 

 and Macedonia, are reminiscent of those of D. del- 

 toides ; they are larger and deeper in colour. 



D. zonatus. A native of the arid mountains in 

 various parts of Asia Minor, and suggesting the Wood 

 Pink, with rose-coloured bearded flowers and purple 

 zone. 



D. D. arenarius. This Pink is easily recognised by 

 the deeply fringed petals, which are cut to below the 

 middle, and each has a faint green mark, covered with 

 short, dark purple hairs. The plant is slightly woody 

 at the base, and divides into many branches, which 

 are terminated with tufts of linear leaves. From the 

 centre of each tuft springs a stem bearing one or two 

 white flowers. It is very hardy, grows in almost any 

 position, and delights in a sandy soil, being found on 

 the shores of the Baltic, from whence it was intro- 

 duced into this country in 1804. Summer is its 



