CAMPANULA. 
damp warmth of the South of Ireland it actually towers to 3 feet and 
more of splendour, and actually in the open border, having a curious 
way of sending out long stiff straight branches at the base of the 
- pyramid, thus making a tray of blossom on which the loose and stalwart 
central cone is carried. But, after such a display, seed should be 
sedulously collected. For such a growth cannot stand many shows of 
sucha kind. And again, in countries where the winter-wet is not warm 
and genial, it will usually be best to treat it as a rock-plant for rich 
sunny crevices, and have regard perhaps to the woolliness of its leaves 
when winter is at her most lachrymose. 
C. lanceolata (Lap.)=C. rhomboidalis. 
C. lanceolata (DC.)=C. Stevenit. 
C. lancifolia (Schrb.)=C. rotundifolia. 
C. Langgsdorffiana=C. rotundifolia. 
C. lasiocarpa, on the contrary (C. algida), is one of the choicest 
treasures that the choicest or most ambitious rock-garden could 
desire. It comes from the high rocky summits of Kamchatka and 
Arctic America. The lower leaves are spoon-shaped, oblong and 
pointed, and all are clearly toothed or even gashed with long and 
definite sharp teeth. And then this tuft sends up a stem of 6 inches or 
so, each carrying one enormous erect bluebell, wide and opulent. The 
root is perennial, but C. lasiocarpa should have the care we lavish on 
C. excisa, which, indeed, it should even more lavishly repay. 
C. latifolia, our own native woodlander of the North, is superbly 
handsome, with its stalwart leafy spikes and erectish trumpets of 
palest lilac. But the seed is so profuse, and the ramping habit so - 
excessive, that C. latifolia is best kept for the wild garden, where in 
cool moist soil it will occupy a hundred square yards with fire-like 
rapidity. Its variety C.1. ertocarpa, from the far North, is much 
neater and less invasive, not so tall or leafy, not nearly so rampant, 
and with flowers of equal size, but of a much deeper and richer violet- 
purple, satiny and splendid. This is well fitted for good places on 
the upper banks, attaining some 3 feet only, instead of the 4 or 5 feet 
of C. latifolia. There is also another magnificent form called C. 1. 
macrantha, which has goblets of rather less depth, indeed, but very 
large ; together with the habit, but not the spreading tendencies of 
C. latifolia. And one might suspect C. latifolia to have had some 
share in producing that sumptuous mystery C. Burghaltii, for which 
see under C. punctata. 
C. latiloba is the correct name of the fine border plant usually called 
in gardens C. grandis. This, though useful and free with its large 
blue saucers, may be described as a spoiled C. persicifolia, for here 
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