CAMPANULA. 
C. dahurica is a Campanula like C. glomerata, with clusters of 
purple cups, possibly no more than a variety of C. glomerata itself, 
though later in flower, and a good deal more brilliant, making quite 
a noble show of violet heads in September. 
C. damascena, not from Damascus but from Hermon, is a rather 
impossible and perhaps undesirable mass of dense, hispid and fragile 
leafy stems, about 3 to 6 inches high, each carrying some half a dozen 
smallish flowers (possibly this =C. dulcis). 
C. dasyantha =C. pilosa. 
C. dasycarpa is said to be a 4-inch, blue-flowering species of the 
Eastern Alps. A most obscure name, perhaps covering yet another 
in the group of C. rotundifolia, unless it be a slip for C. dasyantha. 
C. denticulata, with egg-shaped toothed leaves, makes a really hand- 
some sight, with branches from the axils, and large, pinkish flowers. 
(Armenia.) It scarcely sounds identical with Boissier’s C. betulae- 
folia (q.v.), as sometimes claimed. 
C’. desertorum. Close to C. glomerata. 
C. dichotoma, a tolerable little annual. 
C. divergens. See under C. sibirica. 
C. drabaefolia=C. ramosissima, q.v. 
C. dulcis is suggestive of a finer and more graceful C. mollis—with 
blossoms which are whitish and funnel-shaped, but do not offer us 
much hopes of seeing them, as they are produced in the chinks of 
Sinai. It is only a mercy the plant is not prettier. 
C. Elatines belongs, like so many rare Campanulas of its section, 
to a quite small district, in which, however, it abounds, and at no great 
elevations. It comes nearer home than any others of its group, 
abounding on the hot black cliffs low down in the Cottian Alps, where 
it looks extremely beautiful with its long brittle arms running out 
from the fat stock, from amid the tuft of small ivy-shaped pointed 
leaves, scalloped and crimped, and either grey with down or perfectly 
smooth and glossy. The branches hug the rock, and are set all over 
with a profusion of big flat stars in a very rich deep tone of clear 
violet-blue. It is much lovelier than C. garganica, of which it is indeed 
so much the mother that now C. garganica in all its forms has been 
reduced by many authorities to a mere variety of C. Hlatines. This 
species, however, is far more elegant in growth and less leafy, 
with flowers comparatively larger, and of a much more brilliant colour, 
carried on sprays more fine and dainty. C. Elatines is perfectly easy 
of culture in any warm well-drained crevice in light loam, though, 
like all the saxatile southerners, such a crevice it should have, not only 
for its health but also to show its full character. It is much sought 
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