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the white or yellow roiind, sometimes 

 with the limh spotted or marked with 

 the sajue or a different colour. French, 

 Fancies — No importance is attached to 

 the presence or absence of fringe to the 

 end of petals. 



The French Florist arrange as— GVe- 

 nadins — ^Flowers of medium size, single 

 or double, frilled, unicoloured, deep 

 purple, violet, or verging upo^i chestnut 

 brown, all very fragrant. Flanumds — 

 Flowers large, more or less double, 

 very round, raised or convex in the 

 centre ; petals quite entire, unicoloured 

 or banded longitudinally with two or 

 three distinctly defined colours or tints 

 upon a white ^ound. Fancies — These 

 are subdividedinto fferwwuiand English. 

 Petals, either toothed or not, but 

 marked or striped with two or three 

 different colours upon a yellow ground 

 of various shades in the former, and 

 wholly white in the latter. 



Another writer says — The character- 

 istics of a good Carnation -are as fol- 

 io w-;T-The pod {i.e., calyx) should 

 be long, as then the flower is not 

 liable to bu^st it,, as is the case 

 when it is short. The flower should be 

 quite circular, and rising up gradually 

 towards the centre, so as to form half 

 a ball. The outer or guard petals 

 should be , large, and few in number, 

 rising slightly above the calyx, then 

 spreading horizontally ; and the other 

 petals should be regularly disposed on 

 them, nearly flat,, and diminish in size 

 towards the centre. The texture of 

 the petals should be tMek and wax- 

 like, and the markings distinct and 

 cleaJT, the ground a pure white, any 

 flushing or running of the colour being 

 a decided disqualification. Classes — 

 There are three distinct classes, Viz. — 

 Bizarres, Flakes, and Selfs. _ The 

 Bizarres have a clear ground, variously 

 marked and ,flaked with two or three 

 colours ; of these there are crimson, 

 scarlet, and pinVpurple varieties; each 

 characterised by the distinguishing 

 colours predominating. Flakes have a 

 pure ground, flaked with one colour, of 

 which there are scarlet, purple, and 

 rose varieties, Selfs should be- one 

 coloured, in any shade, but the more 

 defined, the more effective they are. — 

 IHct, of Gard. 



Diaph'anOOS — ^Nearly transparent. (See 

 the.pretty little fern, Adiantumdiapha- 

 rmm.) 



Diaphoeb'tio — Promoting perspiration. A 

 decoctipn made of the flowers of the 

 European Elder has been made for this 

 purpose. 



Diaebhce'a — A purging or looseness of the 

 bowels. Many of our native jjlants are 

 used as a remedy in this complaint, 

 particularly the 'Eiicalypt gum. 



Dichlamtd'eous — When the perianth is 

 double, both calyx and corolla being 

 present and distinct. 



Diohog'amods Plaitos — ^Those in which the 

 stigma is Jiot^ripe at the same time as 

 the anther is. These, again, may 



be — (a) Protandrous — Dichogamid 

 and/rogyna, Sprengel, in which the 

 anthers are ripe before the stigma ; 

 (6) Protogynons — Dichogamia gynan- 

 dra, Sprengel, in which the stigma is 

 ripe before the anther. 



DiCLBSiuM — A fruit composed of an 

 indehiscent one-seeded pericarp, in- 

 vested by a persistent and indurated 

 perianth. For examples see Marvel of 

 Peru (MirabUis), Spinacia and Salsola. 



Dioli'NIS — Having the male and female 

 organs in different flowers 



DioOTYLBDONs' — The name of the first of 

 the two great classes of phsnogamous 

 plants. The few most constant 

 characters which separate the Dicoty- 

 ledons from Monocotyledons are con- 

 sidered to be the following : — Stem, 

 when perennial, consisting of a pith in 

 the centre, of one or more concentric 

 circles of woody tissue, and of the bark 

 on the outside. Embryo with two or 

 more cotyledons, the young stem in 

 germination proceeding from between 

 the two lobes of the embryo or from a 

 notch at its summit. 



Di'dtmus — Double or twin. (See the fruit 

 of Senebiera . didyma, the weed known 

 as Wart Cress.) 



Didtna'mus — Where the stamens are four 

 and arranged thus — two longer than 

 the other two. 



Difplu'eNt — Readily dissolving. 



Dipfok'mis — Having an unusual shape. 



Dippeaot' — Broken into distinct areola, 

 separated by chinks. 



Diffuse' — Spreading widely, horizontally, 

 and irregularly. (See Boerhaa/via diffusa. ) 



Digitate', Digita'tus— Applied to a 

 simple leaf, where the Jobes are very 

 narrow, deeply cut, and all extend 

 nearly to the base of the limb, imitating 

 the fingers of the human hand. (See 

 the inflorescence of Couch-^rass.) 



Digt'nus — Possessing two distinct pistils, 

 or a pistil with two distinct styles ; or 

 with two distinct stigma^. 



Dila'tbd, Dilata'tus— Expanding into a 

 ' lamina. 



Dime'eous and tki-tetea - penta-to 

 PoLTMBEOUS, signifies that the flowers 

 are symmetrical and have 2, 3, 4, 5, or an 

 indefinite number of parts in each whorl. 



Dimid'iate, Dimidia'tus— Halved, where 

 , partial imperfection seems to exist, as 

 in a stamen whose anther has only one 

 lobe ; a leaf or leaflet whose limb is 

 fully developed on one side of the mid- 

 rib, and scarcely at all on the other. 



Dimoe'phous, Dimoe'phus — Where 



similar parts of the same plant assume 

 different shapes, as lAiiAtom dimorpha. 



Diffl'cious, Dioicous (from the Greek, 



dis twice, and oikos a house. )-^Bearing 



. the male and female flowers on distinct 



plants, as the Date Palm, Phcenix 



daetylifera. 



Diplo'tbgis, Diplo'tegia, Diplo'tegium 

 — A dry fruit, formed as the capsule, 

 but from being "inferior" is also 

 invested by the persistent calyx. For- 

 example, fruit of Lobelia, the Tea-tree 

 {Leptosi^ermum), Eucalyptus, &c. 



