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Dianthus (To the species described on pp)

To the species described on pp. 461-4, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

D. cinnabarinus (cinnabar-red). fl. petals flery-red above, paler beneath, covered with sessile glands; stamens not exserted. Summer. l. narrow-linear, with very acute, rigid tips. Thessaly, 1888. A fine species, suffrutescent at the base.

D. superbus nanus (dwarf). A dwarf variety, growing only 6in. in height, and covered with rosy-purple, deeply-fringed flowers.

D. sylvestris (wood-loving). The correct name of the plant described on p. 464, Vol. I., as D. virgineus.