CAMPANULA. 
summer right away through autumn, with those comely pale bells, no 
longer carried, however, on such dwarf stems, but in taller spraying 
showers, even when all the other Bellardiis are over and done. Her 
Ariel has been later in appearing, but was recognised last season, 
above the Glocknerhaus—almost her twin in size, and of a rich 
clear powder-blue, markedly deeper at the rim, and pale inside,: 
which gives the pendent flowers on a high ledge something of the 
charm of C. G. F. Wilson to look up at. 
C. bellidifolia, approaching in its smaller forms to C. Auchert, is yet 
another rock plant from the cliffs of central Caucasus (as, for instance, 
from about 3000 to 6000 feet round Vladikafkas), forming tufts of 
rosettes, with round scallop-toothed leaves, diminishing into a stalk 
so much longer than themselves as to have a truly spoon-like (or 
daisyish) effect. These rosettes are thrown up in masses from a 
many-headed stock, and each emits a profuse display of violet bells, 
purple and splendid as those of Wahlenbergia serpyllifolia in its best 
form (and very much of a size), on stems of not more than about 
2 or 3 inches or so. The flowers are perfectly smooth outside, instead 
of being downy as in C. Aucheri, and the leaves are quite hairless, except 
for a little fringe of down sometimes at their edge. It is an entranc- 
ingly attractive treasure, alike to slugs and gardeners, and thrives 
happily in rich perfectly light limy loam, with abundance of stone- 
chips. The moraine sometimes seems too arid for it. 
C. bellidifolia (Friv. ex Nyman)=C. orphanidea. 
C. bellidifolia (Lapeyr.)=C. patula. 
C. betonicaefolia, small tubular flowers; large downy leafage and 
coarse habit. 
C. betulaefolia, if the true species be obtained, is a lovely thing, 
fragile, with a great number of weak stems from the central neck, erect 
or declining, often branching and twisting at the top, so as to bear 
on each 6-inch stem a loose fountain of bright narrow bells as big 
as those of C. alpestris, on erect pedicels. The whole mass is bright 
green and hairless too—always a good sign—except perhaps for a 
faint occasional trace of down. The leaves of the rosette are almost 
fleshy, rounded, wedge-shaped, sharply toothed, and diminishing to 
long foot-stalks. From rock crevices at some 6000 feet in Turkish 
Armenia, &c. Monocarpic. 
C. Biebersteiniana=C. tridentata, q.v. 
C. Billardiert is not ungraceful, though the flowers are not large. 
The leaves are toothed, rounded, heart-shaped, and the whole effect 
is like a fine frail Harebell. Caucasus and Levant. 
C. bithynica=C. oreadum, q.v. 
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