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Dianthus superbus (Fringed Pink}. 

 A handsome and fragrant species, dis- 

 tinguished by its petals being cut into 

 lines or strips for more than half their 

 length ; 9 to 18 in. high. Flowers, 

 after midsummer ; rose- coloured or 

 reddish ; petals divided beyond the 

 middle, feathery, bearded at the base ; 

 scales of the calyx short, ovate, mu- 

 cronate. Leaves, resembling those of a 

 narrow-leaved Sweet William, bright 

 green, linear- lance-shaped, acute, 

 entire ; stem smooth, many-flowered. 

 The plant is a biennial in some 

 soils, but a perennial in light, well- 

 drained ones. Many parts of Europe. 



Borders, and the less important 



parts of the rock-garden. It will 

 grow in any kind of soil for a time, 

 but thrives best in light, rich ones, 

 well drained. Seed. 



Diapensia lapponica (Lapland D.) 

 A sturdy, but very dwarf, evergreen 

 shrub, 1 to 2 in. high. Flowers, in 

 early summer ; white, salver- shaped, 

 about 4 in. across ; mostly solitary, on 

 erect stalks ; stamens yellow. Leaves, 

 very narrow, closely packed, linear- 

 spoon - shaped, smooth. Northern 



Europe and North America. The 



rock-garden, in moist sandy peat, and 

 in well exposed positions. As yet, 

 this plant has been but very rarely 

 seen even in our best collections. 

 Careful division of well-established 

 tufts. 



Dicentra (Dielytra) chrysantha. 

 (Yellow-flowered D.) A very orna- 

 mental, bushy, herbaceous plant, 3 to 

 5 ft. high. Flowers, in autumn ; full 

 golden yellow, in erect racemes. 

 Leaves, very finely cut, glaucous, 

 resembling those of the Rue. Cali- 

 fornia. Borders, in rich, deep, and 



well-drained loam. Seed. 



Dicentra cucullaria (Hooded D.) 

 Fumaria cucullaria. A graceful 

 and interesting, but not very con- 

 spicuous little plant, about 3 in. high. 



Flowers, in early summer ; white, with 

 yellow tips ; produced in simple 

 racemes on naked stalks; spurs 

 2, straight, acute. Leaves, tri-ter- 

 nate, smooth, slender. Hoot, tube- 

 rous, about the size of a large 



hazel nut. North America. The 



rock - garden, in quiet, half-shady 

 nooks, amid dwarf plants, or on the 

 margins of beds of shrubs, in peat 

 soil. It is very uncommon in gardens, 

 and is not likely to be popular, not 

 being so ornamental as the following 

 kinds. Division. 



Dicentra eximia (Plumy Dielytra}. 

 Combines the grace of a fern with 

 the blooming qualities of a first-class 

 perennial ; 9 to 18 in. high. Flowers, 

 in spring and throughout the summer ; 

 reddish purple, drooping, oblong, in 

 a compound raceme; spurs short, 

 blunt, somewhat incurved; wings of 

 the inner petals projecting beyond the 

 summit; stigma 2- angled. Leaves, 3 to 

 8, or more, growing from the crown 

 of the roots ; stalks channelled, 

 widened at the base ; divisions of the 

 blades variable, but mostly oblong. 

 Clefts of rocks on the mountains of 



Virginia and North Carolina. 



Borders, or rockwork ; grows in any 

 soil, but thrives best in a deep, sandy 

 loam. Division. 



[D. formosa, of Nuttall, is by some 

 considered a distinct species, known 

 by the "wings of the inner petals 

 scarcely projecting, the stigma tri- 

 angular and entire, the flowers broadly 

 ovate, and the spurs short, and very 

 obtuse." The plants grown under this 

 name in gardens are, from a horticul- 

 tural point of view, not distinct from 

 the preceding, require the same treat- 

 ment, and are suitable for the same 

 positions.] 



Dicentra spectab'ilis (Dielytra). 

 One of our most beautiful and graceful 

 hardy flowers ; 9 in. to 2 ft. high. 

 Flowers, in spring and early summer j 



