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amongst the mountains, and that our plant has no 

 claim to a place in our English flora. Indications 

 of glacial action may be found clearly enough with 

 crossing the Channel, but our glaciers have 

 departed, and with them, very possibly, D. neg- 

 lectus. This pink has the usual dianthus cha- 

 racter, the leaves, glaucous in tint, in tufts close to 

 the ground looking like short, wiry grass and 

 rising from this compact mass the slender, flower- 

 bearing stems. 



The petals of the glacier pink have a firmer 

 character than we ordinarily find in this genus, 

 and, while a brilliant rose-colour above, are of a 

 creamy-white beneath. When seen in masses, the 

 effect of the rosy, star-like blossoms rising in profu- 

 sion from the midst of the grey-green leaves is 

 charming. Its fellow-plant on the Plate is the 

 Cerastium gibraltaicum an attractive little foreigner 

 to which our figure does but scant justice, as here, 

 again, the real effectiveness of the plant is brought 

 out when we have a considerable tuft of its silver- 

 grey foliage and pure white flowers in the midst of 

 the surrounding verdure. It is rather specially 

 choice as, though cerastiums of one species or 

 another are common enough in England and else- 

 where, this particular species appears thus far to 

 have only been found on the great mass of Nature's 

 rock-work from whence it takes its specific name. 



The fool's parsley the ^Ethusa Cynapium will 



