CAMPANULA. 
Bells that seem to be its parents. For the plant appears an obvious 
intermediate, if natural distribution will admit such a thing (as it 
does at one point, on Monte Maggiore), between C. T’ommasiniana 
and C. Waldsteiniana, or possibly C. pulla. For it has a quickly- 
rambling habit unlike either C. Tommasiniana’s or C. Waldsteiniana’s, 
forming rapidly into ever-widening colonies of delicate 4- or 5-inch 
stems, not densely set, but spreading easily about, and leafy with 
rhomboidal pale-green leaves, rather hairy. Each of these shoots ends 
in a single pendent bell, shallow and wide, of soft warm violet, sug- 
gesting the influence rather of C. pulla upon the narrow china-blue 
tubes of C’. Tommasiniana, to which in all other points it stands quite 
close, though the leafage, borne in the same way, is broader and 
makes more effect. C. x Stansfieldii is a treasure of the highest 
claims, and is of the easiest culture in open limy soil. 
C. Steller is an even better variety of C. pilosa, q.v. 
C. stenocodon. See under C. rotundifolia. 
C. stenosiphon ; a form or sub-species of C. glomerata,=C. Boissiert 
(Sprun.), and handsome with large flower-clusters, in the beech-woods 
of Thessaly. 
C. Steventt has lately come into general cultivation amid plaudits, 
from some point of its enormous range from the dry upper alpine 
grasses of Demavend, through all Asia Minor, Armenia, Cappadocia, 
Caucasus, and away into the Altai and Siberia. It forms mats of 
fine green foliage rather like those of C. abietina, smooth at the edge, 
or faintly scalloped, and wholly bald and green but for a minute 
fringe of hair sometimes at their base. Up come tall straggling and 
very weakly stems that cry for pea-sticks; and, at the height of 
6 or 9 inches, these produce flowers in Abietina’s tone of warm vinous 
lilac, but much paler, longer, deeply cleft and recurving, rather shallow 
bells instead of still shallower open stars. Much more attractive is 
the dwarf variety, C. S. nana, which is really charming, having all 
the vigorous matting habit of the type, but carrying its blossoms on 
stems so short that they have not time to think of flopping or strag- 
gling beneath their burden. This must be a high-alpine development, 
and has a marked preference for quite damp places in the garden, and 
rather cool though always open exposures. , 
C. stricta is a big species in the way of C. Trachelium, tall and hand- 
some, from elevations of some 5000 feet in Asia Minor; it has narrow 
foliage and rather large flowers. There is some confusion in gardens 
as to a problem now (1913) being sent out as C. «libanotica.” The 
thing so called is said to be pre-eminent in flower. But it is plainly a 
mere form or sub-species of C. persicifolia, of much reduced size, and 
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