CAMPANULA. 
C. alpina in a different style is quite as beautiful as C. alpestris. 
It is a small taprooting species from the high iurf of the Styrian lime- 
stones, where in the miles of moorland filled with Primula Clusiana 
and sheeted in the carpets of P. minima, may everywhere be seen its 
neat single rosette of narrow bright-green glossy leaves, delicately 
scalloped at the edge. From this, in June, the plant sends up at the 
side of the clump a stout short spike, on which the big hairy bells 
of a very clear pale or dark electric blue are carried on foot-stalks so 
long as to give the effect of a graceful fountain of blossom. The 
plant varies most curiously, though not so much, like C. alpestris, in its 
flower. For while the typical form is almost wholly hairless, lucent, 
glossy, and bright-green, with only a fringe of hair, at times, to the 
leaf, yet in many cases the whole growth is so wrapped in wool as to 
have a grey and almost fluffy look. In cultivation C. alpina is as 
easy as possible, but, being only a taproot and never spreading from 
the one rosette or tuft of rosettes, it must have only the choicest place, 
in light rich loam, very deep, with plenty of sun, plenty of water, 
and plenty of stone. It is not by any means a biennial, as is some- 
times said ; but occasionally flowers so profusely as to exhaust the 
resources of its taproot and die. Slugs, again, are a yet more frequent 
cause of death, nibbling away the entire rosette in a night till nothing 
but the naked stump is left. Like most of these species, it appreciates 
abundance of lime. 
C. altaica (L. and DC.)=C. pilosa. 
C. altaica (Led.) = C. Stevenit. 
C. amabilis = C. phyctidocalyx. 
C. americana (C. obliqua) is coarse, rank, and worthless. 
C. anchusiflora is a smallish thing akin to C. orphanidea, softly 
grey-hairy, from the sea-rocks of the Aegean ; it has leafy stems, and 
the lower leaves are lyrate with all their lobes scalloped, the end one 
large and oval-heart-shaped, while the lowest prolong themselves in 
flaps down the leaf-stalk. The flowers, though not very large, are 
wide open, blue, softly downy, and borne with lovely profusion in a 
tall oval dome of blossom about a foot high at the most. 
C. Andrewsit is the correct name of what used to be called C. tomen- 
tosa—an ashy-grey downy rock-plant of monocarpic habit, with a great 
number of twisting stems that sometimes branch a little, and tend 
to hug the cliff-face ; and so carry a one-sided spray of tubular blue- 
velvet bells, sitting tight to the bough. The root-leaves are oblong 
spoon-shaped, and toothed or scalloped, diminishing down to a leaf- 
stalk, or cut and feathered at times, or else gashed into lobes all the 
way up, of which by far the largest is the top one, fat and rounded, 
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