CAMPANULA. 
very hard, hot, and deep stony ground in fullest sun. C. affinis, q.v., 
may be only a variety of this, but differs profoundly in many points, 
and is not so certainly not perennial. In C. speciosa the spike is about 
a foot high. (It can be only about 4 inches, furnished with only two 
or three bells, and the rosette about three in diameter ; in which case 
the neat clump suggests some absurd hybrid between C. alpestris and 
C. alpina.) The flowers hang, the segments of the calyx are quite 
narrow and not more than a third of the bell’s total length, and the 
style is no longer than the corolla and does not protrude ; in C. affinis 
the stems from the rosettes are numerous instead of only single, they 
are never less than a foot, and rise usually to much greater heights, 
often attaining nearly 4 feet; the flowers are held erect in a long 
cylindrical raceme, the calyx-lobes are broadly egg-shaped and half the 
length of the bell, which is lobed to the middle, far more deeply than in 
C. speciosa, and with the style projecting far out of its mouth. 
C. « speciosa”’ of some lists is merely a big-flowered form of C. 
glomerata, usually the one called C. g. dahurica. C. glomerata varies 
distractingly, and there is even a tiny 2-inch dainty form called C. g. 
pusilla. 
C. sphaerothriz (Griseb.)=C. expansa. 
C. spicata is not uncommon in dry hot places at low elevations in 
the Alps. It is a rather ugly biennial, with tall rat-tail spikes of 
small purple bells sitting tight and close and erect along the stiff stalk. 
It has produced a hybrid at Kew, with C. thyrsoidea, which is said to 
stand precisely between its parents, and should therefore double the 
ugliness of both, with the added ugliness of yellow blent with purple. 
C. Spruneri is a feeble thing but very beautiful, tangled up with 
oaks and brooms in the coppices of Argolis beside the echoing sea ; 
and thence ascends to the sub-alpine regions of Olenos, Kyllene, and 
Parnassus. It throws out a number of weak stems from a central 
tuft of pale-green foliage, exactly as in C. Stevenii, but with a few 
minute warty hairs. The shoots spread here and there through the 
ground, emerging at last in sprays that lie weakly down and then 
rise up at the end, each carrying from three to half a dozen very large 
and lovely pale-blue flowers as big as Persicifolia’s, on fine dainty 
branches. It has borrowed many names of other species in its time, 
and has been in turn C. ramosissima, C. Herminii, and C. patula ; in 
its highest reaches on the upper slopes of Parnassus it develops an 
alpine variety called C, S. spathulata, quite dwarf, with spatulate 
_ leaves and one large flower. 
C. x Stansfieldi is a gift of Heaven, and its history is wrapped in 
cloud. It was, and sometimes still is, imported with the Dalmatian 
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