CAMPANULA. 
C. microphylla (Cav.)=C. mollis, q.v. 
C. mirabilis, justly acclaimed with shouts of rapture when it was 
discovered and introduced from the one ripe capsule on the one 
specimen found first by Alboff in the Caucasus, has not by any means 
answered to general expectations. It seems to require imperatively a 
very poor, pebbly, and worthless barren place in sun or shade, such as 
no gardener would dream a prior: of inflicting upon a plant so rare, 
expensive, and precious. But if happy in such—and it is a pre- 
destined glory of the moraine—it will go on from year to year making 
an increasing flat rosette of smooth glossy-green saw-toothed leaves 
not unlike those of a verdant Sazifraga Cotyledon, from which in the 
fullness of days there arises a spouting fountain of fine pale-blue bells 
some half the size of those in C. Medium. After which the foot-high 
spike lays down its head, and C. mirabilis passes utterly away, leaving 
seed behind to keep its memory green in the moraine that knows it no 
more. 
C. modesta has nothing to do with either C. caespitosa or C. 
Bellardii, but is a perfectly distinct high-alpine from some 12,000 or 
14,000 feet in Sikkim, where it throws up solitary dark-blue flowers of 
conical outline, cut into lobes half the length of the whole bell (which 
is only about a third of an inch). The leaves are oval on long stems, 
and the bloom-stalks about 6 or 7 inches ; and the species, closely akin 
to C. aristata, has no special value, except to remind gardeners and 
catalogues that there is such a thing. 
C. Moerheimit. See under C. persicijolia. 
C. moesiaca is a biennial species from Bulgaria ; but pretty, in the 
way of a pale-belled C. glomerata. 
C. mollis is a small rock-species of the limestones of Southern 
Europe, ete., with tiny oval leaves of white velvet, those of the rosettes 
being spoon-shaped, while the rest nestle close to the stems, and are 
very much smaller, fragile, and quite smooth-edged, unless perhaps 
they sometimes have a wavy scallop. The flower-stems are frail too, 
flopping or trying to stand up, branching. The flowers are un- 
erudgingly produced about the ends of the 3- to 12-inch sprays, standing 
rather erect, each on its own foot-stalk, in clusters or showers of wide 
open blue cups about half an inch across. For careful culture in 
choice hot chinks or moraine. 
C. monanthos, an obscure species from Crna Planina, with the 
leaves and general habit of C. bellidifolia, but the single stem is much 
taller, about 6 inches or so, carrying a nodding folded narrow little 
blossom, rather suggesting that of a C. excisa without the punched 
hole. (An o!d and unconfirmed record.) 
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