CAMPANULA. 
ugly have alike been sent out under it. The true C. rupestris makes 
a silver-haired rosette of lyrate leaves, after the kind of C. Andrewsii ; 
as indeed it should be, for it is only the variety brachyantha of C. 
Andrewsii itself, producing shorter velvety bells of pale beautiful 
colour and a waxy crystalline texture. Beware of sham C. rupestris 
in catalogues. 
C. rupicola is a very lovely little rock-plant from the crevices 
of Parnassus. In habit it is near C. oreadum, but here the small 
ash-grey oval leaves of the tuft, wedge-shaped at the base, are toothed 
instead of being smooth at the edge. The crown throws out a number 
of flopping stems of about 6 inches, delicate and branching, with 
sprays each bearing two or three flowers; and these are handsome 
long bells of violet-blue. But in this species the segments of the calyx 
are short, broad, blunt, and gashed into teeth; instead of being 
narrow-pointed, velvety, and perfectly entire at the edge, as in C. 
oreadum. There is no reason why C. rupicola should not prove a 
sound perennial, in well-drained crevice or moraine. 
C. Ruprechtit, from the Alps of North Persia, is not unlike C. Sazi- 
fraga, but here the stalks are finer and more twisting, about 2 or 3 
inches in length, and softly downy ; it also spreads from the branch- 
ing rhizome, which here is thick and fattish. The blosscms, borne 
lonely on their delicate stems, are large purple bells as in C. Saxifraga. 
C. ruthenica (MB.)=C. bononiensis, q.v. 
C. sabatia is a form of C. macrorrhiza from the Capo di Noli, which 
only differs from the type in having crystalline bristles on the calyx. 
C. sardoa (Levier). See under C. macrorrhiza. 
C. sarmatica inhabits the rocky places and stony slopes of Central 
Caucasus, up to about 4000 feet or rather more. It is a vigorous 
and coarse stalwart of medium size, with long oval-oblong scailoped 
foliage, grey and downy, on long stalks; the flower-spikes are several 
from the same clump, about a foot or so in height, and densely laden 
with goodly hanging bells of pale grey-blue. It is of the easiest culture 
in any open place, and seeds profusely. But it cannot, as has some- 
times been claimed, enter into comparison with C. barbata, having no 
such grace in its magnificence. It blooms quite early in the summer, 
and is soon over. 
C. Sartorii dwells in the high rocky summits and grottoes of Andros. 
It is a velvety frail thing, with procumbent leafy boughs carrying 
scattered sprays of violet stars above the minute rounded leaves, 
cut at the end into five or seven teeth, with a stem as long as them- 
selves (which is not saying much). The whole beautiful and most 
desirable mass recalls C. Portenschlagiana, of which it is an almost 
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