CAMPANULA. 
C. Morettiana calls us back into the Dolomites, where, here and 
there in their most merciless walls of limestone, you may be fortu- 
nate enough to see its minute tuffets of foliage, of which the tiny lower 
leaves are heart-shaped, saw-edged, and stalked, while the rather 
numerous stem-leaves are tinier still, and oval, sitting close to the 
stalk. And the whole growth is grey with rather coarse and crystalline 
bristling hair. And each stem, about 2 or 3 inches high, carries, as a 
rule, only one flower—a splendid large bell of violet blue, erect and 
sturdy and astonishing. Though very hard to collect from those stark 
and adamantine walls far up above the Fassathal (we should all be 
glad to know how Mr. Stuart Thompson found it growing in “ stony 
pastures ’—one of the most incurably saxatile of its whole race), C. 
Morettiana is by no means hard to grow in well-drained chink or 
moraine. But, being so minute, and being usually sent out in col- 
lected pieces, which of necessity are fragmentary, it is as well to 
give it a season of re-establishment in a small pot, a consideration 
which it heartily requites. Like so many of the best rock-garden 
Campanulas, this beauty has a sadly small and local distribution ; in 
South Tyrol and the adjoining hills of Lombardy, between the no less 
limited range of C. Raineri in the limestones of Bergamo to the West, 
and along way from the domain of C. Zoysii in the high limestones of 
the Karawanken to the East. In the grim fastnesses of the Schlern- 
klamm above Salegg it may be seen sharing the unassailable cliffs with 
Saxifraga Burseriana tridentina, Phyteuma comosum, and Asplenium 
Seelosii—each one more impregnable than the other—but the Cam- 
panula perhaps the most. Beware of impostors in nurseries. 
C’. multiflora is also the thing called C. macrostachya—a worthless 
Macedonian and Bulgarian biennial, with flowers like those of a small 
and inferior C. glomerata. 
. muralis (Port.)=C. Portenschlagiana, q.v. 
naesica, an ugly Bosnian biennial in the way of C. thyrsoidea. 
. nitida (Ait.)=C. planiflora, q.v. 
. nobilis=C. punctata, q.v. 
. numidica (Desf.)=C. mollis, q.v. 
. odontosepala, a large coarse and leafy weed, after the style of 
C. americana. 
C. Olivieri (DC.)=C. calaminthifolia, q.v. 
C. olympica, from the lower mountain region of the Bithynian 
Olympus, is a handsome biennial species after the manner of C. 
patula, but with looser showers of more numerous large erect violet 
stars. 
C. orbelica, however, is a welcome contribution from the Balkans— 
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