CAMPANULA. 
(Post. Herb.), or C. bavarica, is, in point of fact, a species of the South. 
C. garganica goes no further than the Western side of Dalmatia, at 
which point the tale is taken up by C. Portenschlagiana, abounding 
through Eastern Dalmatia, in all the walls and fissures—as in the cliffs 
by Almissa and Macarska and throughout the province. Yet here 
again this Southern species has become, with C. Bellardii, perhaps the 
most indispensable, indestructible, and generally magnificent of 
Campanulas for all gardens great or small. True it is that we might 
have hoped good things of those smooth and hairless leaves, but who 
could ever have foretold the generosity of their abounding masses, 
and the way in which they are hidden beneath that inordinate pro- 
fusion of starry violet cups? As is natural in a wild Campanula 
made so tame, the type has developed into various forms, indulged 
by gardeners with names ; there is major and there is minor, and there 
is the ordinary species under its name of bavarica (no doubt because 
it must have struck the imagination in some Bavarian garden). Yet 
none of these is sufficiently marked to oust the august proper name 
of C. Portenschlagiana, which, cumbrous though it be, has the advan- 
tage, not only of being correct, but also of covering one of the most 
precious of garden Bells, which grows profusely, and pulls to pieces 
and propagates with the utmost ease. 
C. praesignis. See under C. rotundifolia. 
C. primulaefolia (Brot.)=C. peregrina, q.v. 
C.x Profusion is a garden-hybrid of great merit, of which the 
parentage is obscure. It is certain that the seed-parent was C. 
pyramidalis, but whether the father was C. carpatica or C. isophylla 
does not seem so sure. In any case it is a pretty thing, adopting 
the dwarf stature of the father, without the slightest reminiscence of 
its stalwart and enormous mother. Two forms are said to be in 
existence ; one with blue flowers, and the other with mauvish grey, 
less attractive. 
C. pseudocarnica. See under C. rotundifolia. 
C. pseudo-Raineri. See under C. turbinata. 
C. ptarmicaefolia, an ugly thing from Erzeroum, with very narrow 
basal leaves, and long crowded spikes or heads of little bugles. 
C. pubescens (Schl.)=C. Bellardii. 
C. pubiflora (Rupr.)=C. Aucheri. 
C. pulcherrima is merely the brazen name adopted by that lovely 
but terrible weed C. rapunculoeides, when it wants to delude us into 
admitting it to our gardens. Never was such a wolf in such a woolly 
sheep’s coat of a seductive (and indeed in itself not mendacious) name. 
C. pulla is the imperial glory of the alpine section, where, in dark 
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