CAMPANULA. 
CC. scabrella, Scouleri, sindjarensis, specularioeides, stellaris, sub- 
alpina, and sylvatica are all useless for the garden, or unworthy. 
C. Scheuchzert. See under C. rotundifolia. 
C. sclerotricha, a worthless biennial coarse thing like C. Grossekit, 
from shady gardens of Persia. 
C. scutellata is only an annual, but worth admission, being a fine 
species from the Balkan regions and Greece, suggesting C. linafolia, 
but with more splendid bells of violet. 
C. serotina has little claim to recognition, for it is hardly more than 
a late-blooming form of C. glomerata, and biennial, it seems, at that. 
C. sibirica, however, is far from worthless, though equally biennial. 
It is general in Central Europe, of erect growth, with panicles of 
purple blossoms narrowly arranged on their sprays. There is a more 
diffuse form called C. s. divergens, which is really very beautiful. 
They can both be sown in waste poor places in the sun. 
C. sidoniensis is another admissible annual, like a magnified 
C. abietina, but of straggling loose habit—or, in other words, like a 
large form of C. patula. 
C. silenifolia comes from the Baikal, and at its worst is leafy and 
rather coarse, while at its best it earns praise, being after the way of 
an improved C. Steveni, with minutely-toothed leaves, faintly fringed 
with hair, but otherwise wholly green and smooth. These continue 
up the rather tall stems, that display as many as eight large shallow 
starry cups of violet, carried in a loose shower, each by itself. 
C. x Smithii is now probably lost. It was a little Come-by-chance 
with small hairy leaves and 6-inch hairy stems, producing a profusion 
of half-erect flowers of grey-blue. Ii is said to have sprung to birth 
spontaneously in a frame containing C. fragilis and C. « caespttosa”’ 
—the C. caespitosa here meaning, not the genuine species, but C. 
Bellardit. 
C. solstitialis. See under C. rotundifolia. 
C. spathulata (WK.)=C. sibirica divergens. 
C. spathulata. See under C. Spruneri, of which it is a variety. 
C. speciosa is a superb species, chiefly Pyrenean, which is either 
biennial or monocarpic. It is found in rocky places of Catalonia, 
and again in the Cevennes, records of it from the South of France 
being most suspicious. It forms great flat rosettes sometimes 18 inches 
across or so, of narrow bristly greyish foliage, scalloped at the edge 
all along, and: coarsely toothed at the tip. This, at flowering time, 
lies even flatter than ever, as up comes one stocky spike of a foot or 
more, liberally set with enormous violet Canterbury bells ; after which 
the plant seeds and dies. In cultivation it can do magnificently in 
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