CAMPANULA. 
perfectly vigorous and hardy even in the coldest and rawest parts of 
England, where it scarcely even needs the protecting pane of glass that 
is put over it in winter, hardly so much for the actual needs of the 
Campanula as in pious and wistful memory of the sunshine far away 
on the Capo di Noli. So, in any light soil, C. isophylla is superb to 
enthrone on the top of some sunny sheer rock, falling over it and 
down in a cascade of colour hardly less rich than those it forms in 
the protection of a cottage livmg-room. It is also sold under the 
name of C. floribunda. C. Mayi is a form with variegated leaves, 
treated as a synonym of C. x Balchiniana, and often sent out as its 
variegated form; but the genuine CU. Balchiniana has no variations, 
and is, in point of fact, a beautiful and free-blooming intermediate 
between C. isophylla alba and C. fragilis, for the same uses as its 
parents, between which it stands about midway. 
C. istriaca is a prostrate Campanula close to C. garganica, with 
hairy leaves, egg-shaped or heart-shaped, and big wide-open blossoms, 
notably deeply cleft and freely produced. 
C.. janisensis (Rch.)=C. rapunculoeides, q.v. 
C. Jaubertiana is a Spanish species from alpine limestone cliffs 
in the Aragonian Pyrenees on the south side. In its first year 
it makes a tuft of ten or twenty barren shoots, clothed in tiny 
oval-rounded leatherish leaves on longish stalks, quite smooth and 
unevenly toothed. Then, from the middle of this, there spring 
four or five flower-stems next year, each carrying two or four 
large narrow tubular bells of blue, with spreading lobes, and 
yellowish at the base, nodding at first on their long foot-stalks and 
then standing erect. 
C. x Justiniana will be but rarely met with. It is a natural hybrid 
between the variety cochleariifolia of C. Bellardii and C. rotundifolia 
linifolia. In habit and beauty it holds of both its parents—a very 
dainty lovely spreading little Ariel, with gracious bare stems fine 
and frail and branching, each producing several nodding bells of deep 
and misty powder-blue, on long thread-like pedicels. When got, it 
thrives as heartily as either of its parents, between whom it is clearly 
intermediate in habit, size, and colour—much smaller than C. lini- 
folia in growth and blossom, much larger and more graceful than 
C. Bellardii, with barer, finer sprays, and flowers in shape a compromise 
between those of its parents, but in colour leaning more towards the 
violets of C. linifolia, counteracted by the china-tone of C. Bellardii ; 
and all invested in a soft bloom of down. (Tre Croce di Rimbianco, 
in stones at the path-side.) 
C. kamtchatica. Not specially valuable, a frail thing, creeping 
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