CAMPANULA. 
C. phyctidocalyx is the unpleasing name by which we must now 
know that handsome species which once was much more appropriately 
called C. amabilis. It is a very pleasant border-plant, not unlike 
C. persicifolia, but the leaves of the basal rosettes are spoon-shaped 
and most prettily crimped, while the large blossoms are a little smaller 
and much flatter, purple, with a paling eye. Unfortunately it comes 
from South Armenia, and, though not at all tender, cannot yet be 
always called a really satisfactory species in the open. 
C. pilosa, also known as C. dasyantha (Bieb.), Pallasiana (Roehm. 
and Schl.), and altaica (DC.), is not properly revealed by this multi- 
plicity of names to be one of the most desirable of the whole race. 
All across high Siberia, through the Arctic Islands to Japan, it forms 
single tufts exactly like those of C. alpestris, but that the long narrow 
leaves are sharply toothed. Among these rises one stalwart little 
stem of about 6 inches (with only here and there one minute suggestion 
of a bract-like leaf), woolly-hairy at first and then bald, standing un- 
bowed beneath the burden of one enormous broad bell of blue, large and 
solid as in C. Raineri, but bearded outside with a fluff of fine hairs. 
C. pinifolia. See under C. rotundifolia. 
C. planiflora, an interesting and valuable thing from North America, 
rather obscure in its history and confused in catalogues, which some- 
times call it C. nitida, and have at other times even placed it doubt- 
fully as a dwarf form of C. pyramidalis. But this last is not an 
American plant at all; nor has C. planiflora any resemblance to it, 
being much more approximate to a stunted development of C. latiloba. 
It has a marked personality, being stiff and stocky, about 9 inches or 
a foot in height, with smooth hard and leathery foliage, narrow-oblong 
and scalloped ; while on the stem sit tight the big fat flowers, round 
and flat and rather stolid-looking, of cool powder-blue (or white). 
It is quite easy of culture in any ordinary place, suggesting most 
of all, perhaps, a much condensed and blank-faced form of C. persict- 
folia. It has a look of Spartan sturdiness and character, and might 
justly be described in the words of an eminent authority as “a very 
dressy little alpine.”’ 
C. podanthoeides, as its name implies, is a quaint small plant hardly 
like a Campanula, as it nestles into the cliffs of Berytagh, forming a 
minute tuffet of fleshy, pointed oblong leaves; the stems are only 
some inch or so high, packed with leaves so diminutive as to look like 
mere scales; the flowers are in a head of two or three, the blue 
corolla cloven into lobes three-quarters of its depth. (It is also C. 
rumarum of some.) 
C. Portenschlagiana (Roehm. and Schl.), often called C. muralis 
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