CAMPANULA. 
does not always survive the winter, though its claim to be a sound 
spreading perennial is now admitted. In any case it can freely be 
raised from seed. It was introduced under the false name of C. 
acutangula, which may still be found in some catalogues, while others 
obscure it yet further by calling the plant C. acutangulare. (Sic!) 
C. Athoa, an inferior Clot-head in the kinship of C. glomerata. 
C. attica, the false name of the beautiful large-flowered annual, 
whose proper name is C. ramosissima, but which is also called C. drabae- 
folia and C. Loreyi. 
C. Aucheri restores us to the charms of C. alpestris and C.ardonensis. 
C. Aucheri can always be known from all forms of C. tridentata and 
C. Saxifraga by the outside of the great violet bell, which is downy instead 
of being waxy-smooth ; also, its foliage is scalloped all the way round 
the edge. The same downiness of the flower distinguishes it from 
the bald-belled C. bellidifolia in its smallerforms. C. Aucheri has the 
utmost neatness and beauty, a tuft of rosettes, as in C. alpestris, and 
exactly in similar places, abundant in the alpine region of Eastern 
Caucasus to North Persia, with small oval leaves, scalloped at the 
edge, and diminishing to a foot-stalk ; and the usual glorious bells of 
purple, in which this section is so profuse. For choice bed or moraine. 
A darling of slugs, always keen to discern the best. 
C. Autraniana, a fine big leafy Caucasian stalwart, with toothed 
leaves and goodly flowers. 
C. axillaris, a large and stalwart border plant, with toothed leafage, 
and flowers in their axils almost stemless. (And some other more or 
less valueless things in this letter are C. Alphonsti, C. alsinoeides, C. 
aparinoeides, C. argyrotricha, C. asperrima, C. atlantica, C. aurita.) 
C. Balchiniana, a garden hybrid of C. isophylla, q.v. 
C. Balfourit. See under C. pulla. 
C. barbata is the noble bearded Bell of the Alps, and one of their 
most lovely glories, when its stout campanili of fluffy china-blue wave 
amid golden Arnica in the showering grasses. It can be 2 feet high ; it 
can be 2 inches; it can have more than twenty flowers, and it can 
only have one (a delicious dwarf-habited form called C. 6. uniflora, 
and thus often confused with the true species C. uniflora, but un- 
fortunately not constant). It can also branch and hold out lateral 
arms with flowers held upwards instead of hanging. But there is 
never anything more beautiful than the type C. barbata, with its 
not uncommon and exquisite pure-white forms; in gardens it should 
have quite sharp drainage and quite poor soil, or be established in 
crevices or the moraine, if it is to prove a permanent perennial. For, 
like C. alpina, which is like a minute cousin, of wholly different 
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