CAMPANULA. 
minutely downy-grey ; and with very much larger blossoms, wide- 
open and star-cut as in C. cenisia, produced one or two at the end, 
from the axils of the innumerable tiny erect or flopping stems that 
spring a couple of inches or so from the tuft of minute rounded leaves 
like a Nummularia’s, nestling into the sheer limestones of Gumbet 
in the Caucasus, and driving its delicate roots far down into the heart 
of the rock. 
C. gummifera (Willd.)=C. sarmatica, q.v. 
C. hagielia fades into C. Andrewsii and can no more be held dis- 
tinct. Its only interest lies in its being a Christian Campanula, which 
asks the protection of Holy Elias (as its name declares) instead of 
clinging, like C. ephesia and C. calaminthifolia, heathen plants, to the 
ruins of Zeus and Artemis. 
C. Hawkinsiana is a species of incomparable beauty from cliffs of 
serpentine and silex in the sub-alpine regions of Thessaly and Epirus. 
It forms a tuft of fleshy rounded little hairless leaves, diminishing to 
quite a short foot-stalk, and almost entire at the edge, or perhaps a 
trifle toothed. Then from this there floats out a cloud of 12- or 18-inch 
stems, airy and almost naked, but for a few minute narrow leaves 
here and there, each carrying at the end a single flower, large and 
rich and wide, of the most refulgent purple. Colonel Beddome 
cannot have got this true, or grown it well (or else its original describer 
must have overflowed with excessive zeal). For he declares it of 
botanical interest only. 
C. x haylodgensis, a really beautiful small garden hybrid, between 
(probably) C. Bellardii and C. isophylla, with neat vigorous low growth 
of glossy foliage of a bright pale-green verging on a yellowish tone ; 
and covered in later summer and autumn with a profusion of large, 
wide erect flowers of clear bright blue. It is of the easiest culture, 
and there is a double form that is not ugly. 
C. hederacea. See under Wahlenbergia. 
C. hemschinica, a beautiful biennial in the section of C. patula, 
which it closely resembles, but that it is only some 12 inches high, 
with larger star-cups in a less lax shower. (Alpine fields of Pontus 
and Bulgaria, &c.) Sometimes in this species, too, the leaves continue 
down the stem in a leafy flap or wing. 
C. Hendersonit. See under C. carpatica. 
C. Herminii the Colonel admits to be pretty as it claims—though 
it should be much more nearly akin to C. Bellardii than to C. rotundi- 
folia, as well as being far too beautiful to be damned with such a 
faintly praising word as “pretty,” for it forms lax and spreading 
masses and mats of perfectly glabrous smooth green leaves, long- 
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