CAMPANULA. 
suckers of an octopus. There are many forms in cultivation, all 
delightfully easy and valuable and perpetual -flowering,for sunny chinks 
on the rock-work; some are smooth and hairless, others densely 
ashen-grey with down ; some have white flowers and some have blue, 
but all have names accordingly. The only form that has no name is 
the finest of all—that very beautiful thing which nurseries used to call 
C. Erinus, and which is no more than a neat and glossy-green variety of 
C. garganica, forming a refined small rosette, from which spread raying 
stems, not too leafy, set with a graceful profusion of most beautiful 
flat flowers that look much larger for the plant, and are of a rich 
china-blue with an eye of white. It is of compact habit and the 
easiest growth. Yet another form has recently been sent out under 
the false and cloudy name of C. rupestris. This has longer, more 
scattered and straggling branches, comparatively bare also, and with 
the leafage of the rosette all crimped and glossy-smooth as in the 
last ; but the stars are not so flat, and thinner in outline, of quite a 
spidery effect, violet, with a white eye. 
C. glomerata may be found quite commoniy on many English 
downs. It is almost the finest of the Cluster-heads, and ranges in 
many forms across the world to Manchuria. Among its countless 
named local developments, the best is C. g. dahurica (sometimes 
confusingly advertised as C. speciosa), with flowers of a really superb 
violet, very late in the season. The bells of C. stenosiphon, from the 
sub-alpine beech-woods of Thessaly, are rather narrower ; those of 
C. foliosa are larger and more numerous; so also are those of C. 
machrochlamys, wrapped in an envelope of leafage, and this has the 
advantage, too, of being not more than 6 inches high, but is unfortu- 
nately a biennial, as is also C. involucrata. But C. glomerata in all 
its forms is soundly perennial, and really useful in any ordinary place 
in any ordinary soil. Associated with the sulphur-yellow of Cephalaria 
alpina, its clustering heads of violet on their stems of a foot or 18 inches 
make a delicately splendid contrast (and another is the same Cepha- 
laria, with the tenderer violet of C. latifolia eriocarpa). But C. 
glomerata, besides white forms, and a double one of little merit, also 
achieves a strikingly beautiful dwarf variety called C. g. compacta, a 
mound of imperial purple not more than 3 or 4 inches high, and 
nearly twice as much across; while C. g. pusilla is yet smaller and 
of daintier style. 
C.. grandis=C. latiloba. 
C. Grossekii is coarse as its name seems to promise ; it is in the way 
of C. alliariaefolia, but not a plant worth growing. 
C. gumbetica is a microscopic reproduction of C. Bayerniana, 
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