CAMPANULA. 
an easy and lovely jewel from bare open spaces on the mountains 
of Bulgaria, very closely resembling beloved C. alpina, but that 
here the pedicels of the flowers are much longer (though in this 
Alpina itself is variable). Colonel Beddome, however, allies it rather 
with C. linifolia, though not at all thereby denying its charms 
and claims. 
C. oreadum, also, is no less a treasure, from the cliffs 9000 
feet on the Thessalian Olympus. It is not unlike C. tridentata, 
but here the narrow-oblong foliage, grey with close hairs, is without 
any toothing, while the twisting stems can carry as many as five 
flowers, instead of invariably only one. The tuft is neat and charm- 
ing, and the big violet-purple bells, of rather narrow outline, 
are superb upon their long foot-stalks, almost in a little candelabrum 
from the base, a loose pyramid of 4 or 5 inches high. It differs from 
the kindred C. rupicola in having calyx-seqgments narrow-pointed and 
without any toothing at the edge; and the Oreads alone, as yet, rejoice 
in it. 
C. orphanidea dwells in the summit-rocks of Athos, which it shares 
with the monks and with Sazifraga juniperina. It is a delightful 
small species, akin to C. Andrewsit but much finer, with downy-white 
heart-shaped leaves on flattened foot-stalks, forming a rosette from 
which splay out the 4- to 6-inch branches set with rounded minuter 
leaflings, faintly waved and scalloped, on a yet longer foot-stalk. The 
blossoms are large for the plant, carried in sprays of six or nine, rather 
narrow bells of intense violet. This, like all the flannel-leaved 
Levantine Campanulas, will probably be glad of a close hot crevice 
and protection from rain in wet winters. But we have our experience 
with C. isophylla to warn us against being too chicken-hearted with 
Aegean and Mediterranean delicacies ; and our experience with C. lanata 
to show that even the dangers of wool and grey-flannel foliage can 
sometimes be overrated. 
C. Pallasiana=C. pilosa, q.v. 
C. parnassica. See Edraianthus Parnassi, q.v. 
C. Parryi comes from Georgetown in America, around which 
favoured spot it sends its creeping roots and runners; the spoon- 
shaped basal leaves are fringed with hairs and very veiny, smooth- 
edged, or else a little toothed ; among these come up the undivided— 
or sometimes branching—stems, slender and erect, some 3 to 10 inches 
tall, each one carrying a single shallow bowl of a wide blue blossom, 
most beautiful to see. It is a great improvement on C. Stevent, 
which in some ways it recalls, and in others will follow. 
C. patula is a brightly handsome biennial, occurring in England, and 
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