CAMPANULA. 
with a delicate eyelash of hairs at their edge (which is perfectly free 
of toothing or scallop). C. cenzsia, though indifferent as to what 
rock it lives on, is a local species, though always most abundant where 
found—as, for instance, at great elevations in the Oberland and Valais, 
very massive on the Mont Cenis, from which it has its name, and 
scattered through Tyrol and the Western ranges. There is also a most 
lovely pure-white form, no less easy and floriferous than the type. 
For, all things considered, it is not unfair to call C. cenisia an easy 
doer. Inhabiting as it does, however, always and only, the highest 
and barest of shingle-slopes, where it makes its widest masses tucked 
in between rough blocks more or less superimposed and tilting back 
into the slope, so that the rootage is packed into a sort of sandwich, 
where its central tap may dive deep and far into the moist and worth- 
less grit, while its fine white-cotton runners squeeze out and along 
this way and that, and appear as fresh tuffets round the corner or along 
the edge of the next stone—growing thus, I say, it is obvious that in 
cultivation this exacting plant will usually die in any but shingly con- 
ditions. And so it does, but in those conditions, in deep and roughly 
gritty moraine, with water flowing beneath it all through the growing 
season, it not only makes itself at home and spreads almost as it does 
in its own austere places, but also flowers with an almost equal 
generosity all the summer through—a very rare concession in a high- 
alpine. It even, in favouring climates, seeds itself; a beautiful tuft 
of the albino, which flowered copiously from June to October, has 
now at least three promising olive-branches in its bed. On the Alps 
C. cenisia dies down to rest like C. alpestris, but in the softer con- 
ditions of the garden tends not to do this, and then regrets its lack of 
winter rest and is grateful if a pane of glass will keep off the rain from 
its green rosettes, while those of C. alpestris are long ago lost memories. 
C. cephallenica is a rock plant quite close to C. garganica, but even 
more desirable, because its flowers are carried on longer stems, and 
are more numerous, larger, and at once taller and wider. 
C. Cervicaria, a quite useless and ugly cluster-headed biennial. 
C. cichoracea (Sibth. and Sm.)=C. lingulata. 
C. ciliata is a very precious beauty so nearly akin to C. tridentata as 
even by some authorities to have been confused and submerged. It 
may, however, be clearly known by its much lesser degree of hairiness. 
For its oval scalloped leaves, narrowing to their base, are perfectly 
smooth but for a little fringe of backward pointing hairs at their edge. 
The calyx, too, instead of being woollyish, is merely fringed with rather 
stiff hairs. Otherwise the plant is the same in habit and charm—a 
running, tuft-emitting C. alpestris, with royal violet bells, solitary on 
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