CAMPANULA. 
sometimes filling the alpine meadows—as below Heiligenblut—with 
a tossing sea of hot lilac-lavender. Its stems can attain to 2 or 3 feet, 
wirily slight and slender in growth, set all up with oval-toothed leafage, 
veiny and flimsyish ; then crowning the stems in a loose shower are 
several, or many, wide, erect, and particularly full-rayed stars, or 
shallow bells, of a luminous rose-purple, varying to palest tones and 
a stainless white. 
C. pelia, yet another form coming close under C. Andrewsii, and with 
no special worth of its own. 
C. pelviformis (Hort.) is a form of C. carpatica. 
C. pelviformis (Lam.)—C. corymbosa (Desf.), g.v. (also C. tubulosa, 
Lam.). 
C. peregrina is a large border plant, in the way of a yet further 
coarsened C. latiloba. 
C. persicifolia—The Peach-leaved Bell is far too well known for 
description. It is so beautiful a thing, so graceful in spite of its 
immense bowls of blue and white on those tall and dainty stems, that 
England may well feel a thrill of pride in the knowledge that at last, 
after having vainly established itself in many places and been detected 
as a mere denizen or desirable alien, C. persicifolia has now made 
good its many attempts at citizenship by being found genuinely wild 
in the West. Its varieties are of every degree of value, nor do they 
need a better description as a rule than their names; but, in the 
rock-garden, Moerheimii and Pfitzeri must be guarded against as being 
doubles or half doubles, as are also Cowpe d’Azurand Vineta. La Fée, 
however, is a white of exquisite purity. 
C. petraea is a species of great rarity and great ugliness, from the 
rocks of Tyrol, &c., where it forms big fat trunks, crowned with tufts 
of flannelly grey foliage, long-oblong and scalloped, on foot-stalks, 
the flower-stems carrying at the top a cluster of dirty-yellow small 
tubular bells. It is not a biennial, but the gardener sometimes wishes 
it were, the plant’s rarity otherwise protecting it from removal by 
any reverent hand. 
C. petrophila abounds on damp rocks and in cool places on the 
Northern slopes of Caucasus, from 6000 to 9500 feet—a diffuse slack mat 
with fine thready stems, dwarf and leafy, set with minute and rounded 
stalked leaves scalloped just at the tip. The sprays are set with 
a certain number of yet smaller leaves, and the flowers (often as many 
as five, carried on long and leafy foot-stalks) are wide bells of pale blue, 
often bearded, and graceful on their stems. It is said to recall C. rhom- 
boidalis, but sounds absolutely distinct in most respects. 
C. Pfitzert. See under C. persicifolia. 
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