94 ALPINES AND BOG-PLANTS 



CHAPTER V 



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Of the smaller Pinks frigidus and Lereschei are said to 

 be lovely. But then it is a catalogue that says so. How- 

 ever, I hope they may be. So far, they are doing fairly 

 well in the moraine. Microlepis I got with great excite- 

 ment, from Servia, but it appears to be a minute and 

 not extremely fascinating variety near glacialis, which 

 attempted to prove kinship with that peevish plant by 

 expiring as soon as it could. Dianthtis Sternhergi appears 

 to be promising, but I am a little tepid about it, since I 

 discovered that it stands between monspessiclanus and 

 swperius. Now all my warmest affection is reserved for 

 the dwarf, cushiony Pinks. Diantlius integer seems to be 

 very uncertain. Many false forms are certainly doing 

 duty for it. I believe I have at last got the genuine 

 plant from Ljubotren, and it looks cosy and distinct in 

 growth, so that I look forward to its flower. Dianthus 

 dentosus from South Russia I have never succeeded in 

 getting. Mr. Robinson's description fired me. A Cushion- 

 Pink with violet-lilac flowers might be so extremely pretty 

 (it might, on the other hand, be horribly ugly) ; however, 

 as I seem unable to obtain the plant, such speculations 

 are profitless. Dianthus squarrosus and Dianthtis sub- 

 acaidis are two small people I once had, but they have, I 

 think, vanished, without leaving any aching void in my 

 heart. Where, exactly, Dianthus petraeus comes, I can- 



