EDRAIANTHUS. 
retain the name for the cluster-headed race that stands so close to 
Campanula in the Balkan region, leaving the single-flowered members 
of this group in the new name of Wahlenbergia. In this Adriatic 
range the Ciuster-heads vary greatly, and there are probably not more 
than some three species in the whole list of names so copiously quoted 
by catalogues, synonyms having been recklessly multiplied, and a 
brief variation often promoted to specific rank. For these plants are, 
indeed, very much alike and very subtly to be differentiated ; often, 
in lists for instance, four names appear, all separately described and 
priced, yet all in reality no more than vague varieties or synonyms of 
one species, H. graminifolius. One general picture paints the race— 
they all make rosettes of narrow leaves, from which radiate flopping 
stems bearing up bunches of purple Campanulas at the end; and all, 
though rather rank in look, somehow, are bright and useful and quite 
easy in any deep light loam and a sunny position. Seed. 
HE. caricinus, Schott, is a form lurking close to EL. tenwifolius, DC., 
and EH. croaticus, if not actually undecipherable. In any case it isa 
mere variety of L. graminifolius. ; 
EL. caudatus, Vis.=E. dalmaticus, DC. It has rather broader leaves 
than most, and the stems that lie about among them are more or less 
bald, only having a little down near the top. The leaflets or bracts 
under the flower-clusters are broadly egg-shaped and very much 
shorter—some three or four times—than the tubes of the purple bells 
themselves. (From sunny hilly places about Clissa, Salona, &c.) 
E. croaticus may be doubtfully known by having its foliage only 
fringed with hairs at the base. This also belongs to EH. gramini- 
foltus.’ 
HE. dalmaticus (DC.) = #. caudatus. 
E. dinaricus. See under Wahlenbergia. 
E. graminifolius, L., is perhaps the best. Its leaves are all downy 
or even hairy, either smooth at the edge or sometimes with small 
glandular toothings, hairy underneath and bristly above. The bracts 
under the flower-heads are egg-shaped, but taper outward in quite 2 
tail. The flowers themselves are of special brilliancy and opulence. 
This species occupies all the Dalmatian coasts, and takes a large 
number of variations, so that in the end it includes #. caricinus, EF. 
croaticus, H. tenuifolius, &c., as mere varieties, though catalogues 
often treat them as species, whereas they are not even permanently 
definite varieties among themselves, but shading into each other in 
their several stations, and usually coarser in habit, smaller and dowdier 
in flower than the best form of the species (with other varieties, 
australis, siculus, pusillus, elatus). 
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