136 CARNATIONS AND PINKS 



in cultivation, for under this name we generally 

 have D. plumarins and its variety fragrans. The 

 true D. fragrans is a tufted plant of a fine green 

 colour, with stems 12 to 14 inches high, and pink 

 flowers recurved at the edges, spotted with purple, 

 and highly scented. May to June. Full sun. 



D. Freynii ( Vandas.}. A small species of the 

 Transylvanian Alps, with narrow keeled leaves. 

 Flower-stem short, two to three inches, bearing a 

 solitary flower of a light rose-carmine colour, with 

 yellowish reverse. May and June. Culture the 

 same as for callizonus. I have seen lately, in the 

 Botanic Gardens of Giessen (Germany), a white 

 variety of it. 



D. frigidus (Kit.). Carpathians. A very small 

 form of D. sylvestris ; dwarf and few-flowered. I 

 have never grown it, and only know it by description. 



D. gallicus (Pers.\ Plant entirely sarmentose, with 

 long branches spreading over the earth ; leaves thick, 

 dark green with bluish metallic shading. Flowers 

 purplish crimson, of medium size, highly scented ; 

 petals laciniate. It flowers from June to October, 

 forming pretty tufts, and likes sandy soil in full sun. 

 It is a sea-coast plant, growing on the coasts of 

 France and Portugal ; abundant in the neighbour- 

 hood of Biarritz. 



D. gelidus (Schott). A small tufted plant ; leaves 

 narrow, one-veined, recurved at the edges ; flowers 

 large, of a fine crimson colour, spotted in the centre. 

 May and June. This species is very near to glacialis, 

 from which it is chiefly distinguished by the one- 



