CAMPANULA. 
violet bells on wiry fine stems of a foot and more, is in reality so 
close to C. rotundifolia as perhaps hardly with propriety to be kept 
apart. Yet it does unquestionably differ far more widely than most of 
the other so-called species—fillng the crevices where it lives with 
a fat and swelling stock, from which pour out its freely-branching sprays 
in countless profusion, while its scalloped basal leaves are egg-shaped 
in outline, rather than round as in C. rotundifolia. Also the flowers 
and capsules tend to stand erect, though in this matter they seem to 
vary ; and one form has even been distinguished as C. m. sardoa, while 
yet another tries to claim specific rank as C. sabatia, q.v. To the 
gardener’s eye, however, no species could be more distinct from the 
Harebell; the innumerable blossoms, if rather smaller, being also 
shallower and of a warm vinous violet and more vase-shaped, and 
much more numerous, displayed in a riotous cloud throughout the 
season. By degrees, however, it loses this habit of winter-blooming, 
daunted by the inclemency of our climate, and takes to more ordi- 
nary hours; at which it is far more generous and beautiful anywhere 
on the rock-work, in chink or ledge, than even C. rotundifolia itself. 
C. macrostachya is C. multiflora, an inferior minuter biennial 
C. glomerata. 
C. macrostyla, though only an annual, is none the less well worth 
sowing—being quite small, with an enormous gaping flower of pink or 
white or purple, with an enormous style sticking far out of it. 
C. Marchesettiit. See under C. rotundifolia. 
C. Mayi. See under C. isophylla. 
C. Medium.—Few things could be more beautiful on the higher 
and wilder banks of the rock-garden than the various single forms of 
the Canterbury Bell, which in no border ever looks quite as noble as 
when its violet chimes ring out from the more barren road-cuttings 
going up to Saint Martin Vésubie, or tower in every shade of white 
and pink and violet in the chalky railway cuttings going down to 
Dover. But, glorious as the Canterbury Bell may be, and old-estab- 
lished in our hearts and gardens, it is but one in a section of Cam- 
panulas of which some will surely prove quite its equal in beauty, 
though for all these years the glory of C. Medium has closed our eyes to 
the possibility of anything else as good in the same line. 
C. michauxioeides is not, however, one of these. For this is an 
interesting but rather ugly biennial, from the mountain region of 
Cadmus in Caria, stalwart, but with little inferior flowers, reflexed and 
starry as those of a Michauxia. Those who declare them to be as 
fine as those of C. rapunculoeides must have been giving way to 
enthusiasm. 
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