CAMPANULA. 
underground, with stalked foliage and calyx-segments as long as the 
corolla or longer. ; 
C. Kerneri. See under C. rotundifolia. 
C. Kladniana=C, Bellardi (var.). 
C.. Kolenatiana is, alas! but biennial or monocarpic ; but a most 
lovely species none the less, from rocky places in the Southern Caucasus: 
and in our gardens fitted for light and rocky places also ; where, from 
the fat stock, ascend innumerable stiff scantily-branching stalks, with 
the basal leaves blunt and heart-shaped or oval, on stems of 2 or 3 
inches, and scalloped at the edge. Then, when the plant is ready, 
every shoot breaks into flower, and the whole thing becomes a round 
bush of a foot or more in height, one loose ball of innumerable big 
nodding flowers of violet-blue, ample shallow cupswith ample recurving 
lobes, and the anthers standing free as in Symphyandra. 
C. Lacei carries large bluebells in terminal clusters, on stems set 
with very narrow leaves, while those at the base are saw-edged, still 
narrow, but not quite so fine—a pretty thing from Kumaon. 
C. laciniata, on the sea-rocks of Pholegandros in the Aegean, 
makes rosettes of narrow oval foliage, continuing down the leaf-stalk 
in wings which are cut and jagged into oblong-toothed strips or lobes, 
the whole growth being minutely downy and of a pale green. Then, 
from the rosette, up rises a branching trunk of 1 or 2 feet high, becom- 
ing an immense crowded pyramid of large blue flowers quite shallow 
and with a long protruding style. After flowering the plant sets 
abundance of seed and dies, being not so much monocarpic as frankly 
biennial. 
C. lactiflora, also sold as C. celtidifolia, is a superb species that sows 
itself all over the place, even if individual crowns do not always live 
for more than a couple of years or so. Its stems, several from the 
tuft, and set with many largish sharply-toothed rhomboidal leaves all 
the way up, tower to the height of 5 feet or more, breaking at the 
top into a great spreading dome of countless erect shallow-cupped 
stars of soft greyish-blue or white. Not, of course, for a choice place. 
C. Lambertiana=C. rapunculus. 
C. lamiifolia (Bieb.)—C. alliariaefolia. 
C. lanata (C. velutina, Vel.), a stately noble plant from the cliffs 
of Rilo and Rhodope, making a wide basal tuft of big heart-shaped 
pointed grey-flannel leafage, and then breaking into a 3-foot pyramidal 
candelabrum of Canterbury Bells which, in the original description, 
should be blue, but in actual fact are of a waxy pale-yellow verging 
upon a peachy pink, to many eyes of the rarest subtlety and charm. 
And, lover of hot dry cliffs though C. lanata may be in nature, in the 
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