CAMPANULA. 
C. teucrioeides rambles about in the stone shingles on the Western 
face of Tmolos, above Bozdagh in Lydia, near the summit. It makes 
fine little downy leafy stems, with extremely minute leaves, wedge- 
shaped-oval, and almost feathered into five or seven deep triangular 
teeth, the lower ones with a very short stalk, and the rest sitting 
straight to the shoots, which attain 3 inches, rather less than more, 
and there end, in one (or occasionally two) nodding bells of blue, most 
delicate and charming. A typical and precious moraine jewel. 
C. thyrsoeides is a common alpine of the upper meadows, which is 
not by any means without its uses, though only monocarpic. It forms 
a wide rosette of many very long and narrow leaves, hoary-grey, like 
the whole growth, with rough bristles. From this comes up a stout 
trunk of 9 or even 18 inches, packed close and tight with rather large 
erectish bells of pale straw-yellow. In the right places, as in the 
grass and among more showy meadow-plants, C. thyrsoeides can give 
a good account of itself, and is not even devoid of magnificence in 
a choicer spot, on some high ledge. It seeds profusely and even 
automatically. 
C. tomentella = C. versicolor, q.v. 
C. tomentosa = C. Andrewsit, q.v. 
C. Tommasiniana gives a welcome instance of an endemic species 
which has perfectly established itself in cultivation. This lovely 
treasure is confined to the district about Istria, and even there is local. 
But in cultivation it is the delight of any open soil, in a select corner, 
sending up sheaves and bushes from its increasing tuft, of fine single 
stems, often 6 or 9 inches high, set with thick and narrowish saw- 
edged foliage, and then in summer and on into August hanging out a 
little steepleful of long pale-blue bells beneath which the elastic leafy 
shoots must bend and sway and decline. It never runs, but adds 
yearly to the size of its clumps, and can best be multiplied by their 
outer developments carefully taken off in August and propagated on. 
There also dwells on Monte Maggiore, one of Tommasiniana’s homes, 
a form of C. Waldsteiniana called C. W. Freyeri, which not only for a 
long time bred a quite unnecessary confusion between the two remark- 
ably distinct species, but may also have provided the opportunity 
for the production of C. Stansfieldit. 
C. Trachelium, the Nettle-bell, is not uncommon in England, but a 
fine thing none the less, trying, not unsuccessfully, to hit a mean be- 
tween the respective beauties of C. glomerata and C. latifolia. Though 
too coarse for choice places, it is handsome in the grass of the wild 
garden, and the alpine meadows have yielded a beautiful albino, as 
well as some delicate shades of grey and very pale blue. 
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