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habit, introduced from Italy in 1756, and figured in 

 Miller's " Figures of Plants." It is still worth growing 

 as a variety. Of this there is a sulphur-coloured form, 

 which about sixty years ago was known as the "Yellow 

 Pink." 



D. fimbriatus. A sufFruticose Iberian species formerly 

 cultivated under the name of D. orientatis, and so figured 

 in the Botanical Magazine, t. 1069. The flowers are fim- 

 briated, rosy in colour ; well worth cultivating. 



D. Fischeri. There are two species known by this 

 name. One, the true species, was introduced from Russia 

 in 1820, and is figured in Sweet's "British Flower 

 Garden." It grows a foot or more in height, with two 

 or three flowers in a head, and seems to possess an affinity 

 to D. superbus. The flowers are red, but at one time a 

 white-flowered variety was in cultivation as well. The 

 other is a supposed variety of D. neglectus, with more 

 than one flower on each stem, and is altogether more 

 robust than that species. It is generally cultivated as 

 D. Fischeri. 



D. fragrans is an Austrian species brought to England 

 in 1804. It is white-flowered, tinted with purple, with 

 fringed petals, and emits an odour of jasmine. Of this 

 there is a double variety. 



D. Freyneri is a tiny form growing only two inches 

 above the ground. It requires a limestone or chalk soil, 

 and is of recent introduction. 



D. gallicus. A dwarf, pink-flowered species from the 

 Continent, growing in quantity on the sands at Biarritz 

 and elsewhere. It is apt to die prematurely under 

 cultivation ; Wooster's " Alpine Plants " contains a 

 figure. 



D. giganteus. A purple-flowered Grecian species in- 

 troduced in 1828. The plant varies considerably in 

 height, but is never less than two feet, and sometimes 

 four feet high. It is a cluster-flowered species. 



