140 CARNATIONS AND PINKS 



the Pyrenees. It abounds at the Col du Lautaret, 

 and especially in the Cottian Alps and the Pied- 

 montese valleys of the Waldenses. It has been in- 

 dicated in the Tyrol, but I think in error, the species 

 being essentially occidental. It is so well acclimatised 

 at the garden of La Linnaea that we find it in all sorts 

 of corners where it has sowed itself spontaneously. 



D. nitidus ( Waldst. & Kit.). Close tufts of intense 

 green foliage ; stems slender and prostrate, bearing 

 two to three handsome, sweet-scented pink flowers 

 spotted with purple. June and July. Full sun. 

 Carpathians and mountains of Macedonia. Rare in 

 cultivation. 



I). Noeanus (Boiss.). A rather pretty, tufted plant, 

 with fringed white flowers, three to five on stiff stalks. 

 June and July. Mountains of Rumelia. Of easy 

 culture. 



D. petrseus ( Waldst. & Kit.). Shoots spreading over 

 the soil and forming tufts of foliage, leaves linear- 

 lanceolate, rigid. Flowers sweet - scented, pink, 

 fringed. May to July. Balkans and Banat Mountains. 

 Of easy culture. 



D. plumarius (L.). This species is the commonest 

 and the strongest of the tufted group of Pinks ; it is, 

 besides, extremely variable. The type is handsome, 

 and sweet-scented. The plant is tufted, leaves 

 bluish-green, with numerous branches extended on 

 the ground ; flowers relatively large, extremely 

 fragrant, the petals fringed and of a lilac-pink 

 colour. May to October. From Hungary and 

 southern Russia. It can be grown anywhere, except 



