CAMPANULA. 
and the rest quite minute. In fact it is a most polymorphic type, 
and there is still much obscurity as to its synunyms, sub-species, 
forms, and varieties. It is found in all the crevices of Greece, and 
its development C. A. brachyantha, with shorter flowers, is C. rupestris 
of the Flora Graeca, yet another complicated and crowded name. Yet 
more conflicting and overshadowing names are C. Celsii, C. ertantha, 
C. lyrata. 
C. arcuata. See C. rotundifolia. 
C. ardonensis is a precious tufted beauty of almost grassy look, 
perfectly smooth and hairless, in a dense matted tuft of many fine 
narrow leaves, almost entirely smooth at the edges, and diminishing 
downwards to very long petioles. Up among these, and hardly 
rising above them, come delicate stems, each one carrying a single 
magnificent bell of intense violet-blue, rather narrow and quite 
hairless. This beautiful thing has the habits, root, and precise 
cultural needs and values of C. alpestris ; it has come into cultiva- 
tion from the district of the Ardon River in Central Caucasus, where 
it occupies, like C. alpestris, stony, grassy places in the alpine region ; 
by the glacier-lake of Zei may be found its variety C. A. kryo- 
phila, compressed and stunted. Slugs and mice adore it no less 
than I. 
C. argaea is an inferior C. spicata, with smaller flowers. 
C. argentea is vainly longed for at present. It dwells in the high 
alpine crevices of Turkish Armenia, forming flat minute masses of 
rosettes, with narrow spoon-shaped foliage untoothed at the edge, 
and richly sheeny with a close coat of silver. The flowers are tubes 
of blue-velvet, borne either alone or just a few at the ends of stems 
not more than 2 or 3 inches high. 
C. aristata is an Indian species of not much hope or merit, though 
perhaps a trifle more blue and less black than usually painted. (See 
under C. foliosa, seq.) 
C. arvatica is a most exquisite little thing, whose character lay 
at first under suspicion. It is, roughly speaking, like a boneless 
and frail-branched C. cenisia, with the lovely violet stars of C. Wald- 
steiniana or C. Elatines—a most delicate alpine, from the limiest crevices 
and screes of the Picos de Europa, by Aliva, in Spain, where it lies 
out upon the stones in spreading spokes of those weak, few-inched 
branches, each turning up to heaven a row or spray of wide-rayed 
open purple stars. The leaves from the central tuft are many and 
rounded, each carried on a long foot-stalk, and, at first, rather sug- 
gesting those of a small C. rotundifolia. In cultivation this new rare 
jewel takes a prominent place in the very choicest moraine, but it 
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