66 Caryophyllea—LDianthus 
beautiful varieties now cultivated in our gardens began to 
arrive from Germany and Russia. Since then they have been 
considerably inercased, and we might now enumerate upwards 
of a hundred, both double and sinyle, and comprehending 
every shade and combination of colour from white and pink to 
dark purple. 
4. D. Hispdnicus. Spanish Pink.—A charming variety of 
the Sweet William. It has rather broad leaves, erect stems, 
and dense inflorescence ; but its flowers are at least three times 
the size of the common varieties. Their normal tint is a lilac 
carmine, with a circle of dots of a deeper colour around the 
centre. This colouring is greatly modified under cultivation, 
and varieties are now known some quite white, others rose or 
carmine, and others again marbled with pink or carmine upon 
a white ground. And it is not an unusual oecurrence to meet 
with all these varieties of colouring in the same individual ; 
hence, doubtless, its French name of Gillet badin, or Sportive 
Pink. Only the semi-double and double varieties are gene- 
rally seen in gardens, and even they are not very widely spread 
at the present time, though they have long been in favour. 
In the French edition this 
is given as a distinct spe- 
cies; but the true D. His- 
panicus is a totally diffe- 
rent plant, belonging to 
another section of the genus. 
5. D. Chinénsis (fig. 45). 
Chinese Pink, or Indian 
Pink.—Brought from China 
early in the eighteenth cen- 
tury by a French missionary 
named Bignon, it soon lw- 
came as popular as the other 
species of this genus. It is 
distinguished byits narrower 
more acute glaucous leaves 
and its incomparably larger 
flowers, which in some yva- 
rieties are truly enormous. 
Fig. 15, Dianthus Chinensis. (4 nat. size.) This, like all the other 
species, has been remarkally improved under culture, and has 
given birth to « multitude of both single and double varieties, 
self-coloured or streaked, white, pink, crimson, carmine, purple- 
