CAMPANULA. 
correspondent as to some form of the delusive C. “ valdensis,”’ the 
description sounded suspiciously, as if it really covered the genuine 
C. caespitosa, so long lost in the weltering chaos of C. “ pusilla.” 
C. calaminthifolia can hardly be a synonym of C. orphanidea. 
This pious Harebell clings to the ruins of the temple of Zeus on Delos. 
It is a rather luscious rock-plant, monocarpic, with many weak 
decumbent leafy stems, the leaves being fattish, narrow-oblong, and 
toothed at their edge, drawing to a foot-stalk ; while those on the 
stem sit tight to it and are round. Unlike the quite smooth C. hetero- 
phylla, which this Levantine closely resembles, it is softly downy. 
The flowers are rather small blue tubes, with the tips of the lobes 
recurving. 
C. calycina (Roem. and Sch.)=C. rapunculus, q.v. 
C. candida, from limestone crevices of Turkestan and Western 
Persia, is quite close to C. argentea in all its habit and its silver-sheen, 
but the small ovate leaves are coarsely and sharply toothed, the stem 
is a little longer—some 5 inches or so—and the tubular bluebells . 
are narrowly funnel-shaped, fluffyish outside, and rather larger, 
though still not big. 
C. canescens (Biel.)=C. sibirica, q.v. 
C. cantabrica is a pretty thing from Leon, with a radishy root, and 
rounded basal foliage, dim green, curling down at the edge; all the 
stem-leaves are crowded quite at the base of the stems, which rise to 
some 2 or 4 inches only, set with a few narrow leaflings, and each 
carrying one erect flower, which is a narrow blue trumpet, with the 
lobes short and spread out. 
C. carnica. See under C. rotundifolia. 
C. carpatica, from a threepenny pinch of seed, will fill the roughest 
desert with its jungles of gaping open cups, blue, or pallid, or white. 
This lovely wild plant, which actually does come from the Carpathians, 
is now almost wild in every garden, where, indeed, it is of habit and 
freedom too lavish and robust for admission into choice places. It 
has also yielded the following forms or hybrids, of which more appear 
under new names each season: alba, caelestina (merely a good blue, 
which it is quite absurd to call caelestine, such a note never being 
found in Campanula, except in old coloured illustrations, which remind 
one of Gentians) ; Fergusonii, a hybrid with C. pyramidalis, giving an 
ample pyramidal habit, thick-set with very noble wide-open stars 
of violet-blue, a superb cross of good constitution ; Hendersonii, 
another hybrid, but of inferior character and rather miffy temper—as 
often happens when ihe two parents are too distantly related in their 
race (this should also be C. Tymonsii of lists, but what comes out 
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