CAMPANULA. 
panula alaskana, again, is nothing more than a specially ample and 
splendid development of the English Harebell; while more alpine 
meadow-kinds of misty and evanescent personality are C. Baum- 
gartenit, C. pinifolia, C. ficarioeides, C. farinulenta, and the form sent out 
wrongly as C. subpyrenaica, A quite different affair, however, is that 
most distinct treasure called by catalogues C. Hostii ; this is a solid- 
flowered C. rotundifolia of dwarfer, stiffer, stockier habit, with rather 
larger and wider bells rather more rigidly arranged in a tighter 
raceme. This is chiefly known in its beautiful white variety, very 
common and useful in gardens, but I have once collected a single 
clump of the purple type in the river-bed by Rosenlaui, a most striking 
and sturdy Campanula of 8 inches. But now we go back to the land of 
vagueness with magnificent frail-stemmed C. Scheuchzeri, whose start- 
lingly big bells of richest violet are the joy of everyone who sees them 
~ nodding in damp places on the Alps. Nothing could well appear a more 
definite species. Yet in cultivation it always slips back in a year or 
two into something indistinguishable from the aggregate species 
C. rotundifolia. There is an albino of this, too, and a variety C. S. 
Kerneri, both of which lie under the same condemnation. C. valdensis, 
however, escapes—one of the most marked of the group, quite constant 
and very beautiful. It has a graceful habit, erect but not stiff, about 
9inches high; and is notably lavish, especially in the garden, with flowers 
of large size and the most enthralling bishop’s purple, which contrasts 
nobly with the dense silver down in which the whole plant is vested, 
-and which it never loses. This was long sent out from a famous 
nursery under the name of C. alpina—too high a presumption for even 
so glorious a mere form as this. Last of the group comes the strangest 
of all, C. stenocodon, a rarity occurring in dry stony places of the 
Maritime Alps, as for instance on the way up to the Miniera di Tenda 
above San Dalmazzo. This is not in any way really and permanently 
to be distinguished from the group of C. rotundifolia except—and most 
markedly—by its extraordinary and unvarying flowers, which, instead 
of being bells, are long narrow tubes of violet-blue, in shape not unlike 
those of C. Tommasiniana. It is a fine thing, vigorous and elegant, 
having all the heartiness of the family, and delighting in moraine. 
C. ruderalis is yet another species with narrow bells of deep blue. 
But this removes our gaze to the high and arid places of Afghanistan, 
where, at some 9000 to 12,000 feet, will be found this tuffet, all rough 
and bristlish, of minute oblong-elliptic foliage, from which rise deli- 
cate stems of 6 inches or so, carrying either one flower or a loose 
flight of two or three. 
C’. rupestris is a vague and invalid name. Beautiful things and 
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