CAMPANULA. 
large ; the lower leaves being oval and long-stalked, while the upper 
ones are quite narrow and hug the stem. 
C. velutina (Desf.)=C. mollis. 
C. velutina (Vel.)=C. lanata. 
C. verruculosa (Link,)=C. Rapunculus. 
C. versicolor, a most stalwart beauty, but hardly ever seen, all kinds 
of hispid and horrid gawky weeds having been sent out under this 
name, which in reality belongs to a perfectly smooth-leaved species, 
rather like a smaller and neater C. pyramidalis, but a more certain 
perennial. It has curving stems, fat and frail and leafy, breaking into 
a dense pyramid or thyrsus (not a close unbranched stiff spike as in 
the other) of magnified flowers, wide and saucer-shaped, cleft about 
three-quarters of their depth into spreading lobes, and dark-violet at 
their centre, fading outwards to a paler rim. The leaves of the rosette 
are fattish too, oval or oblong heart-shaped, scalloped or saw-edged, 
and on long leaf-stalks. C. versicolor, still out of reach, is found in 
Greece in crevices and cliffs of the lower wood-region. There is a 
downy variety, C. v. tomentella, and another, C. v. thessala, with 
smaller flowers, from the Thessalian Olympus. 
C. vesula (All.)=C. persicifelia. . 
C. Waldsteiniana inhabits the summit-chinks in some of the 
Dalmatian mountains—an entrancing and well-beloved joy of the 
rock-garden, where, in any happy limy rich loam, light and well 
drained, it forms, like C. T’ommasiniana, ever-increasing tufty bushes 
of upright stems; but here the stems are shorter and stiffer, only 
about 6 inches or so, and too vigorous ever to give way beneath the 
flower; and these, again, are not bells, but the most beautiful wide 
stars of violet like those of C. Elatines, with a paler eye, staring straight 
up into the eye of day from the top of each little wiry stalk, covering 
the 4-inch mass in August and September, after which the plant does 
not die down, but life goes out of the shoots and they are still standing 
in November, sere and withered skeletons. The leaves are oval, 
small, and rather dark ; and the whole lovely clump, so delicate and 
yet so sturdy and male, is quite beyond possibility of mistake or 
confusion with any other in the garden. 
C. Warleyt. See under C. rotundifolia. 
C. White Star. See under C. carpatica. 
C. Younghit Brandii, a pubescent form of C. Lacei, q.v. 
C. Zoysti is the last and strangest of the race—that minute 
exquisite rock-jewel which you may see filling the crevices and high 
chinks of the Karawanken, in just such limestone cliffs and crannies as 
those beloved by C. Rainerifurther West. But C. Zoysii is far smaller, 
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