CAMPANULA. 
Caucasus (where it blooms from mid-November onwards), makes a 
woody base, and sends out ascendent flexuous and rather bristlish 
stems that divide higher up into two forks and do not exceed some 
9 inches or so. The leaves are obovate, diminishing to a foot-stalk, 
along which they continue in a leafy flap; and the abundant blossoms 
are fine and large and blue. It ought to be perennial, but is near 
akin to the confessedly biennial C. sibirica divergens ; and, indeed, in 
all this indiscreetly free-flowering section, it is as well to make sure 
of them, by sowing annually some of the abundant seed, for fear the 
parent, no matter how perennial, should prove to have exhausted 
itself with its generosity. 
C. incanescens, a hopeless and worthless woot from Persia akin 
to C. damascena. 
C. inconcessa. See under C. rotundifolia. 
C. incurva is the correct name of the plant too often sent out as 
C. Leutweinii. This is a monocarpic from the sheer rocks of Kuboea 
and the face of Olympus that fronts the Gulf of Thessaly (where it 
grows at between 500 and 1500 feet) ; it forms a fat neck with a rosette 
of hoary heart-shaped or kidney-shaped leafage, bluntly scalloped, 
on foot-stalks ; from this there rises a magnificent panicle a foot high, 
of pale-blue flowers as large as a Canterbury Bell. Seed should be 
raised and saved of this, as, though not annual, it merely continues 
until it has flowered, and then irremediably dies—like the Canterbury 
Bell itself. 
C. infundibulum is said to be synonymous with C. Stevenii. As 
figured, it is a finer thing, with one immense trumpet lonely on a 
frail stem thin-set with specially narrow leaves. 
C. Intybus—C. trachyphyila, q.v. 
C. involucrata attains 6 or 10 inches, and is a glomerate species, 
with fine large violet bells in heads, set off by a spreading frill of foliage. 
‘ (Cappadocia.) 
C. Isabel. See under C. carpatica. 
C. isophylla is that glorious Beauty which makes such sheets of wide 
blue or white saucers, dependent from baskets in cottage-windows. 
This strange and lonely species, like a loose cataract of C. carpatica, 
snowed over with the more exquisite flowers of C. Raineri, has only 
one dwelling-place in the world—in a few hundred yards of limy con- 
glomerate cliff on the Capo di Noli, between Savona and Genoa, with 
the Mediterranean lapping at its feet, and the great expresses thunder- 
ing hourly by to Rome. None the less C. isophylla bids us never 
despair of our plants, be they from climates never so warm, or them- 
selves so improbable of success in our land of cold and wet ; for it is 
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