CAMPANULA. 
C. bononiensis is a species common in Southern Europe, but of no 
special interest or value, forming a tall erect leafy spike, set thickly 
with rather small rather tubular blooms of a rather dim and uncertain 
lilac-purple, stiff and sessile. There is a variety ruthenica which 
might offer itself to the unwary as a species, and, though usually rather 
ugly, C. bononiensis itself can sometimes be seen in prettier, and 
sometimes in quite attractive forms. Near San Dalmazzo de Tenda 
it is not at its best. 
C. Burghaltii, a splendid but doubtful garden development. See 
under C. punctata, of which it is most probably a form or hybrid. 
C. caespitosa (Scop.) has nothing whatever to do with C. Bellardit, 
C. pusilla (Haenke), C. modesta, C. tyrolensis, C. pumila, or any other 
of the distinct species which have been shoved under its wing in gardens 
until all trace of the genuine species has been lost. C. caespitosa is 
not a runner, but from one central tap throws up a dense cushion of 
many serried shoots, thick-set with little narrow toothed leaves in 
no way distinct from those of C. Bellardii, except by their number 
and density on the far more dense tuft, made up of far more, and 
more close-packed, barren shoots devoid of runners. But above this 
mat come shooting wholly different flowers on wholly different stems— 
tall, very thin, and bare and wiry, attaining as much as a foot, and 
arching and bending out this way and that, with all the airy grace 
of Dierama pulcherrimum, beneath the burden of a long rather one- 
sided loose shower of the most lovely hanging bells, delicately strongly 
ribbed outside, and so pulled-in at the mouth that they look like 
elongated globules of exquisite clear-blue water, as they waver and 
sway and tinkle to the lightest wind. It is one of the daintiest of 
Campanulas, and in the garden answers as perfectly to any ordinary 
treatment as C. Bellardii itself. In nature it begins far away, so 
that perhaps the long obscurity that has wrapped it may be explained. 
It can first be seen rather feebly beginning, in the Dolomites, occurring 
by the roadside between Teblach and Cortina in stony poor places ; 
but in the Karawanken it is the reigning Bell, shaking tall sheaves 
at the passer-by, from every sandy barren road-cutting as he crosses 
the Seeland Pass. In the Dolomites it has to share its home with 
C. Bellardii, but has not so deep a belt of distribution. In the 
Karawanken, C. Bellardii is comparatively rarely seen, and then often 
only at the higher elevations, while C. caespitosa wholly takes its place 
and never seems to ascend. It blooms with the other through July 
to September, and should be best multiplied from seed. It is truly 
figured, though vilely coloured, and from a specimen of poor stature, 
in the Ic. Flo. Germ., t. xciv.; and quite lately, in the notice of some 
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