CAMPANULA. 
by slugs, and is curiously rare in cultivation, considering alike its 
beauty and its happy temper. It has no objection with us to the 
lime it avoids in nature, and there seems no difference of constitution 
between the grey and the glabrous forms. 
C. elatinoeides, similar in habit, is a larger coarser thing, with stems 
upstanding and thick, with flannelly heart-shaped foliage amid which 
the smaller flowers make less of an effect. It comes from the lime- 
stone cliffs and grottoes in the Bergamask group, as above Edolo in 
the Val Camonica, and about Bormio, constant, like the last, to lower 
elevations, though on different rock. 
C. elegans, as sent out, has always proved a suspiciously faithful 
copy of C. rapunculoeides. And even the species C. elegans, R. and 
Sch., is obscure and doubtful. It should have a downy tallish stem, 
set with very narrow leaves, perfectly untoothed at the edge, and 
sitting close to the stem. The flowers are produced from the axils, 
developing at last into a spike; and the calyx-segments stick out 
abruptly in five sharp points so stiff as to be almost prickly. (Siberia.) 
C. ephesia takes us back to the monocarpics of the Levant. For 
this is so close to C. Andrewsii as now to be often reckoned only a 
variety or sub-species. But it isan even better thing, sacred to Artemis 
of Ephesus as C. calaminthifolia to Zeus on Delos. On the ruins of 
the great temple it makes mounds of one or two feet, hidden in blossoms 
which are larger than those of C. Andrewsti, and not tubular in shape, 
but broad and frank-mouthed bells of blue. 
C. erinoeides, an annual weed. 
C. Brinus, no less an annual, and still more a weed, though this 
name is falsely applied instead to a jewel. See under C. garganica. 
C. eriocarpa is merely a variety of C. latifolia with a rather neater 
smaller habit, and flowers of a much deeper and more brilliant purple. 
See under C. latifolia. 
C. esculenta, a rare Abyssinian, with a thick taproot ; rosettes of 
oblong hairy leaves, and large flowers lonely on their stems. 
C. euclasta is no use, as it forms its wide tufts of grey velvet in the 
blazing rocks of Damascus. 
C. excisa sets our feet once more on the Alps. For this delicate 
and dainty little thing is very rare and also very abundant, being 
only found in the upper stone-slides on the Northern and the Southern 
slopes of Monte Rosa—with one remote and unexpected appearance 
in the Engadine. In its own home it begins almost immediately 
outside Macugnaga, and climbs all the way to the Belvedere glacier, 
running about in the grassy edges of the path and in the scant rough 
soil round the rocks and pine-tree roots, frail and thready in growth, 
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