CAMPANULA. 
under that name is a different thing, suggesting other parentage, not 
so far from C. haylodgensis—a good doer, but of no special merit) ; 
Isabel, with fine flat flowers; White Star, pretty much the same, but 
pure white and very fine and free; pelviformis, flat ; Riverslea, a form 
or hybrid with larger flowers still, and also flat; Little Gem, a dwarf ; 
and last of all the glorious C. turbinata, which is so wholly distinct 
(and so rare) that we will continue to preserve its specific rank. 
C. cashmiriana is found between 6000 to 11,000 feet in the moun- 
tains of its name-country. It isa stiff, zigzagging grower, hoary with 
almost woolly down, and with oblong woolly foliage entire or a little 
toothed, about an inch long ; and most noble large flowers of brilliant 
blue (C. cana of some authorities). It is a slender straggler; and yet 
slenderer yet, in the same style, is C. evolvulacea. These both sound, 
as described, admirable; it is only fair to add that this favourable 
opinion is not universally endorsed. 
C. caucasica MB. is quite near C. sibirica, with small tubular 
flowers which hardly spoil the effect, as the whole growth is so small, 
not more than 2 or 4 inches high, running about with frail and almost 
naked rooting shoots in the screes of sub-alpine Caucasus, and then 
sending up short branching downy leaves and stems, bearing three to 
five blossoms in a lax spray. Probably biennial, and possibly a mere 
stunted form of C. sibirica. 
C. Cavolinit (Ten.)=C. fragilis, q.v. 
C. Celsii is the prepotent name of C. lyrata, a monocarpic species of 
waste places in Asia Minor. C., Celsii is altogether bristly with minute 
short hairs, the stems ascend, frail, branching and elastic, to some 
2 feet, clothed in leaves of which the lower ones have leaf-stalks and 
are lyrate—that is, are cut into fat small lobes all the way up, with a 
conspicuously big fat and rounded one at the end (what resemblance 
this may have to a lyre nobody knows), while the upper ones are 
pointed, narrow, oblong, hugging the stems. The crown throws up 
a spike which begins to flower on erect stiff branches from the very 
base, so that it builds a portly mound of tubular blue blossoms, sitting 
solitary almost tight to their boughs, and bristlish on the outside. 
C. celtidifolia=C. lactiflora, q.v. 
C. cenisia is sometimes found sharing a stone-slide with C. alpestris, 
but never descends, like C. alpestris, to humbler elevations. In the 
gaunt screes of the highest Alps it forms sheer masses of colour—a 
huddled sheet of wide-open stars, pale and clear electric grey-blue in 
tone, so densely crowded each on its single shoot of an inch or so 
that nothing can be seen of the matted wee rosettes hugging the stones 
beneath, and made up of soft, bright-green leaves, wee and rounded, 
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